How To Use Contradiction In A Sentence

Does anybody see the contradiction is the Lefts attack on seniors who use Medicare? Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
We do need to show that we can talk without contradiction of God's universal salvific will and the scandalous particularity of the incarnate and risen Lord.
Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction, and was critical, thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally.
But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
His system admits no contradiction between free will and determinism, the God of philosophy and that of the Quran.

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There is a contradiction here, both within his statements and with the biblical text.
The problem is that some of these shared assumptions are loaded with inconsistencies and contradictions.
Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
The true augmented sixth and the true cadence gain in significance as a contradiction to the false cadencing around the mediant.
This seeming contradiction within the document may perhaps be explained in the following manner. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
That much we can take away from this latest close encounter with planet Nirvana without fear of contradiction.
Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. A Simple Story
Now you say you both left at ten-that's a contradiction of your last statement.
Like the rest of the People's Republic of China, Shanghai is a study in contradictions.
I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
There is a painful contradiction between what is in my head and the facade I adopt for the public, my friends and family.
The inherent contradiction can lead to a rupture given changing external circumstances. Critical Social Research
The team will ransack every word of testimony, memo and report for any inaccuracy, inconsistency or contradiction.
Old Labour leader George, torn apart by the contradictions that have led to this riot, suddenly thinks he sees who is to blame, and drops his trimming and concession-making approach.
Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
There's a similar contradiction about in the bullish view on prices and monetary policy. Times, Sunday Times
Yet later he admitted quantum mechanics doesn't contain any logical contradictions and is logically unexceptionable. Robert Lanza, M.D.: Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny?
The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
There's a similar contradiction about in the bullish view on prices and monetary policy. Times, Sunday Times
There are no watertight theories of political praxis that are without contradictions and limitations.
The future is already potentially present in the shape of the blind spots and contradictions of the present - in its silences and exclusions, its conflicts and fragmentations.
It's all a bundle of contradictions: The shows are showier, but we're more distracted, yet also encouraged to engage more. Eats and Tweets in the Seats
… But the more this happens, the more will men not only feel, but also know, their unity with nature, and thus the more impossible will become the senseless and antinatural idea of a contradiction between mind and matter, man and nature, soul and body. Kasama
People are still worshipping cute fluffy kittens in direct contradiction to the UN Resolution 1441.
The reductio ad absurdum is related to a familiar form of proof in logic: You make an assumption and then derive from it a contradiction or a known falsehood by a series of valid inferences. Fun with Hair Splitting
At the time, I did not question him on his contradiction of his earlier pronouncement.
* This is the name theologians conventionally give to the contradiction between an all-powerful and beneficent God who nevertheless creates or allows evil to exist in the world. In the Valley of the Shadow
The second aspect of contradiction within Bukharin's equations is that between accumulation and unproductive consumption.
This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.
On one eventful night we saw some refuse fish being wheeled off in a barrow, and we begged leave to abstract a fish, which was -- I say it without fear of contradiction -- the knobbiest and scaliest member of the finny tribe. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
The idea is almost a contradiction in terms.
Contradiction frequently breeds creativity, and the Deng model has launched a massive program to erase the bipolarity between city and countryside.
Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
Mr. Dixit is also concerned about the slowing down of economic reforms in the country, owing to inner contradictions within the ruling coalition.
The story explores the contradictions of teenage masculinity and femininity and contrasts Japan past and present. Times, Sunday Times
Miss Patty Lockit were both what may be called handsomer girls (and if you asked any persons in company their opinion, they would tell you so) yet their eyes were a direct contradiction to their tongues, by being continually fixed on Miss Jenny; for, while she was in the room, it was impossible to fix them anywhere else. The Governess; or, Little Female Academy
I imagine many CoffeeHousers baulked at that last bit – but “good, honest spad” is not a contradiction in terms. Special advisers do good work too
Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
The simulation result shows that the method can reduce contradictions between control accuracy and scope, and between stability and fast-speed characteristic.
Rochester's writings embody many of the contradictions of this intermediary era.
Then there are Rice's own inconsistencies in her public statements, the transcripts of which are a gold mine of contradiction and pettifoggery. April 2004
It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.
We defer to those we respect and dominate those we do not, and we can do these acts simultaneously without contradiction.
In a turbulent environment, diversity, contradiction and disjunction are the norm.
That's a better way to keep the old cliche from turning into a phrase like ‘jumbo shrimp’ - a contradiction in terms.
Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Butler's futurism similarly intensifies the contradictions of modern society.
It is an uninterruptedly solving contradiction process to guide religion to cope with socialist society.
We see the dichotomies, the wealth of paradox and the inherent contradictions but fail to see what it is that unifies them all into a coherent whole in their minds.
His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
Indeed, the new contradictions not only affected the conception of set and logical concepts, they also came to include the notion of definability and its relation with a fundamental issue: the structure of the mathematical continuum and in particular whether the continuum can be well-ordered and whether Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis (CH) holds. Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic
How can we resolve this apparent contradiction?
The problem with endeavor is that it appears to be in contradiction with the statement of God.
Contradictions, or in acute Nonsense; Sometimes a scenical An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
He attempted to explain apparent contradictions in testimony he gave under aggressive questioning by plaintiffs' lawyers several weeks ago.
There are many unbelievers who tried to point out several alleged contradictions in the Qur'an but all of their attempts were either out of context, mistranslations or misquotations.
Kant's categorical imperative test, for example, holds that universalizability is the distinguishing feature of correct moral judgments, and that a judgment is universalizable if and only if it can, without contradiction, be willed as a universal practical law Impartiality
Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
Wolfe argues that this contradiction has three consequences for public administration.
He was the great appreciator of the country's breadth and energy, its strengths, ironies and contradictions.
Alongside the gaps stand glaring contradictions. The Times Literary Supplement
Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
Upon his favourite topic of discourse, it is said that he was quite unable to bear contradiction.
Hence exchange-value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrisic value, ie, an exchange-value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
In short, they were an inherently modern movement, even though their ideology and rhethorics were anti-modern (which is pretty much the self-contradiction at the heart of fascism). Save Kiana Firouz
Instead, when fully understood, the apparent contradiction may reveal a new causal factor that was not considered before.
For the advancement of human freedom, this contradiction presents both an opportunity and a threat.
In our business, the phrase "harmless error" is a contradiction in terms.
Well now his self-contradictions will be in plain view, and he'll be compared not with crazy Guilianis and inept Romneys and antediluvian Huckabees, but with an attractive, dynamic young Democrat who will not let McCain corning the "straight talk" market. McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway
Maybe it's a kind of wised-up, at times even loathing nostalgia-precisely the kind of contradiction that drives the show creatively. Francis Anderson
But this is the city which gave the world ‘Salaam Bombay,’ for it to salute the undying spirit of a metropolis which glories in its infinitely multipliable complementary contradictions: its grime and glitz, insularity and cosmopolitanism, arrogance and vulnerability, its indifference and unexpected caring.
For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. In which Max discovers a tic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
While Dean admits that his latest decision to continue his campaign regardless of the Wisconsin outcome is an "obvious contradiction," he's only halfway to the truth. Well, that was kinda scary, huh?
Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted.
The main fault I find with the book is Namaste's own self-contradiction.
This is a film full of contradictions and dualities.
She was concerned about reports of peripheral neuritis, irreversible nerve damage in patients taking thalidomide, and pointed out that there were contradictions in the safety data that might bear on this effect. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
Following Fredric Jameson, he holds out hope that history may yet get beyond aporias to reveal a genuine contradiction ‘with its lurking sense of imminent solution or mediation’.
The tremendous speed with which they abandoned all their previous standpoints is a measure of the depth and extent of the explosive contradictions tearing society apart.
That homeopathy, which uses ‘potentized’ substances, has a different rule for its very different preparations is no contradiction of this principle.
In every chord there is some foreign element, some contradiction which gives an odd twist to the harmony.
This is why we have seen so many divisions and contradictions within the Western establishment on this issue.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A strange contradiction emerged as the art was praised while those who created it were degraded.
Each and every difference contains contradiction.
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
That statement is a direct contradiction of the two most important conclusions of the report, which the Minister says he accepts.
Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
For Simmel, contradiction is not merely an instrument for, but an intrinsic condition of, the dynamic force of history.
They are a time of exploration, assertion, and challenge, and often of confusion, contradictions, and trauma.
He jabbers, raves, and gestures to no one, in contradiction to the more subdued Hamlet of productions such as the 2000 Ethan Hawke film version.
They can seemingly either reconcile the uttered contradictions of "their" candidates' positions we don't need constitutional protections for those accused of terrorism cause they're accused of *terrorism* and are therefor actaul *terrorists*! whle at the same time touting their National Guard service, which requires an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution or just refuse to see that there *is* a contradiction. Making Light: Open thread 134
Persistent questioning, passionate debate, direct self-contradictions, an electric atmosphere - all were there.
Paradoxically, the exhibition as a whole is enriched by its internal contradictions.
Here are some of the seeming contradictions that appear in the space of just two-thirds of a USA Today page.
The problem is, however, that such radical scepticism involves a performative contradiction.
Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
I find no contradiction between his publicly expressed opinions and his private actions.
It is strange that this exaggerated weight attributed to Islam, stands in sharp contradiction with their idealistic European notion of 'indiscrimination'. Gates of Vienna
Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, psychologist, and an actor who disguised compromise and dastardliness, had argued the opinions of western world by reflecting his self-contradiction.
There's a basic contradiction in the whole idea of paying for justice.
It is beset by contradictions in the statements of Ministers.
The militants see no contradiction in using violence to bring about a religious state.
There were too many internal contradictions which prevented the different constituencies from working effectively together.
This is a notorious contradiction of natural history and it is great fun to drop into conversation as a mind-boggler. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't stack up and it seems the headlong contradictions we are living with could cause serious upheaval in the period ahead.
For these angles, the contradiction used to prove the corollary does not arise.
She is, in short, a woman of contradictions, and refreshingly, unfashionably unrighteous.
In fact, the contradiction with the present study is only in terms of conclusions and not in terms of results.
Pundits have long pondered the contradictions inherent in a vice-prez whose life contains both an out-and-proud lesbian daughter, and a backwoods redneck doofus boss.
His reform strategies tend to be weakened either by vagueness or internal contradiction.
Will there not be a continuity of evolution implied, in contradiction to our postulated discontinuous collapse?
He finds that as soon as we begin to predicate anything concerning the ultimate nature of matter we fall into a whole series of contradictions, which he calls "antinomies". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Setting aside the self-contradiction, what does all that mean?
Fully equipped with a week's worth of rations, our progress from this city of contradictions leaves behind the tarmac road for rough tracks of sand and stone.
Weidenreich tried to explain the seeming contradiction between isolated regional development and the unity of the human species by advancing the notion of orthogenesis, or directed evolution.
These are contradictions within liberal multiculturalism that liberals have not yet begun to address.
The growth of any new-born thing is fraught with contradictions and struggle.
Thus, Bellocchio establishes the central contradiction between ideological extremism and everyday banalities.
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
The apparent contradiction has been justified by the voluntary waiving of the right to fight alongside partners and to come to their aid when needed. Times, Sunday Times
At first sight, the emergence of the EU as a regional grouping seems to be in contradiction with the direction and thrust of globalization.
This process is an example of a structural contradiction: a strong sense of devotion and commitment to one's tribe that is incompatible with cooperation between tribes. Sociology
‘Collection’ is full of contradictions, though themes can be teased out.
Strong-willed, sexually voracious Alys Robi in Ma vie en cinemascope incarnates the spirit of Quebec and its contradictions.
Technology development strategies exhibit a fundamental logical contradiction.
Saccheri proved that the hypothesis of the obtuse angle implied the fifth postulate, so obtaining a contradiction.
For me that is self-evident and denotes the obvious contradiction between intentionality (as a teleological standpoint and its extrinsic finalities) and consequentialness (as the most important moral standpoint). Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The horsey sports have this contradiction at their very heart. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the aphorisms having to do with the Fall, suffering and redemption show a progressivist chiliastic or even quasi-Hegelian structure culminating in some aspect of the coincidentia oppositorum, the final freedom promised by man's release from the prison of the principle of contradiction. Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
In the Grand Inquisitor's iconological alchemy, three questions dissolve into three obraza (that is, ‘images’ or ‘icons’), and yet the revelation bursting forth from within these images is contradiction.
However, just occasionally, the evidence of the two disciplines is in apparent contradiction.
Recognizing the contradiction of aims as an antinomy would also point to one of the missing links in Habermas's theory.
So there is absolutely no contradiction in the position I have adopted in this Chamber, whatsoever.
The inherent contradiction can lead to a rupture given changing external circumstances. Critical Social Research
Thus full of contradictions, unbending yet haughty, gentle yet fierce, tender and again neglectful, he by some strange art found easy entrance to the admiration and affection of women; now caressing and now tyrannizing over them according to his mood, but in every change a despot. I.4
In the meantime, though, Mr. Pressfield has treated the reader to a thinking person's techno-thriller—which turns out to be not at all a contradiction in terms. Futuristic Soldiers of Fortune
Baiersbronn in the Black Forest is a gorgeous contradiction - cold enough to sting your eyes, warm enough to burn your face. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive protean self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
Gage is a man of contradictions: a vegetarian who owns a cattle ranch.
But the contradictions he embodied as a man and a politician were often evident during his years as president.
If anyone had any doubts about the degree of contradiction on the Opposition's side of the House, let me read these remarks.
They understand complication and contradiction! The Times Literary Supplement
The uncertainty of this metrical contradiction also contributes to the static mood.
Apart from being a contradiction, it is an idea for which there is no convincing evidence.
How do you answer the apparent contradiction of the next two verses? Christianity Today
Perhaps these inconstancies are part of the book's Art - an attempt to discombobulate the audience with extreme contradictions just as the characters live in a state of perpetual untruth and obfuscation.
“To which of those happy propositions is your Duke so much wedded that contradiction will make him unreasonable and untractable?” Quentin Durward
For a couple embarking on a serious relationship, discussion of the terms to apply at parting is almost a contradiction of the shared hopes that have brought them together.
It is not deconstructive in the sense that it attempts to explain those contradictions via a coherent theory.
The commonest explanation for this apparent contradiction is that poverty and anxiety intensified the need for escapism. The Times Literary Supplement
The performers were not intolerable, and the piece, which was what they call a proverb (a fable constructed so as to give a ludicrous verification or contradiction to an old saying), was amusing. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
Violeta Went to Heaven Chile-Argentina-Brazil/World Dramatic; Director: AndrÃ©s Wood; Screenwriter: Eliseo Altunaga; Producer: Patricio Pereira This film tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile's national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities and passions. S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari
It's fun to observe the multiplicities and contradictions within a single person. "I share Ann's affection for bloggers who are trying to observe and understand what they are writing about..."
If the remake, with Nicolas Cage as a rogue cop named Terence McDonagh, commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction
This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
There is no contradiction between faith and modernity and the two can, and indeed must, be reconciled.
But I think it's the contrasts and the contradictions of the opportunities that London presents which make it so appealing.
They are a time of exploration, assertion, and challenge, and often of confusion, contradictions, and trauma.
That is, it is a conception without an object (ens rationis), like noumena, which cannot be considered possible in the sphere of reality, though they must not therefore be held to be impossible -- or like certain new fundamental forces in matter, the existence of which is cogitable without contradiction, though, as examples from experience are not forthcoming, they must not be regarded as possible. The Critique of Pure Reason
A zone can be anything: its spatial characteristics are indeterminate, adequate to absorb the contradictions of the Socialist market economy.
It is the same with the way she talks: the outrageous soundbite followed by the banal self-contradiction.
Some of these contradictions could be explained by his frantic search for political support. The Times Literary Supplement
This psychopathology is made all the more palpable because of the intense moral contradictions: while it has accomplished impressive things, including “Jewish democracy,” a place for some Jews to take refuge or to find pride, survival at all odds, and economic and technological development, Israel is a colonial settler society in origin as much as Zionism is also a variant of Jewish nationalism; it is both non-democratic in its exclusion of non-Jews and democratic for its Jewish majority. Think Progress » Lying About Ledeen: National Review Falsely Claims NeoCon ‘Has Opposed Military Action Against Iran’
I listened for recurring images, words, metaphors, and contradictions in the narrative.
A distinction should be made between the primary and secondary contradictions.
Recognizing this contradiction, it is nonetheless possible to see connections between the fantastical and realistic aspects of rap by analysing the role of fantasies in a subculture.
With both sense experience and mystical experience contradictions between reports prevent us from taking all of them to be veridical.
He attempted to explain apparent contradictions in testimony he gave under aggressive questioning by plaintiffs' lawyers several weeks ago.
The apparent contradiction has been justified by the voluntary waiving of the right to fight alongside partners and to come to their aid when needed. Times, Sunday Times
For a long time, the sharp contradiction between population and land, along with the severe employment situation have resulted in a low living level in Xinhua county.
But there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New England upbringing, and he was so made that the commercial aspect of life often seemed meaningless and bore contradiction to his deeper impulses. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
Mr. Zakaria, born in Mumbai, is himself a member of this elite class, and it is perhaps natural that he should share with them the kind of blinkered reality that sees no implausibility in this fabulous monster, no contradiction between some of the worst development indices in the world and a budding superpower identifying one and the same country. The Zen Tiger: India 's Elections And The Magic Of Fareed Zakaria
And it is surprising how many small contradictions and repetitions there are. Times, Sunday Times
It was full of misleading statements and contradictions.
The most important instrument of dirigisme is subsidy, even though subsidy in a free market in a contradiction in terms.
The allusion is to that of a childlike state, in which faith is absolute and without contradiction. The Paradox Of Adam And Eve « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
A complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms.
The love of irony, of contradiction and the strange, founds and haunts modern literature, beginning with the German Romantics.
The following scientists dispute the first claim and stand as living testimony in contradiction to the second.
The judge cited what he calls inconsistencies, contradictions and the possibility some of the witnesses have motive to lie. CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2008
From the buzzing hive of contradictions that frequently scourge the truly gifted, there are strong signs that McEnroe wanted to do something entirely different.
To undermine liberty in the name of protecting a way of life is a contradiction in terms. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever I lip read Brown and listen to/read transcripts of his speeches I'm struck time and again by the contradictions between what Brown says and what his prelingual speech is saying. In Praise of Personality Politics
My ambivalence is more in response to the evasions and contradictions that lie at the heart of Prospect 2004, the gap between how the exhibition is positioned and what it is in reality.

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