How To Use Contradictory In A Sentence

It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
There are two slightly contradictory factors in play. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps this contradictory nature is the key to its undeniable appeal. Times, Sunday Times
At a time of so much contradictory evidence and inconsistency, he is not the only one. Times, Sunday Times
Intendants and servitors were giving orders on all sides, frequently contradictory, and gardeners were furbishing up the alleyed walks and flower beds in readiness for _Sa Majesté Louis Royal Palaces and Parks of France

The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
The reality is that most people have a complex, sometimes contradictory attitude to government. Times, Sunday Times
But there is another element involved that is less visible and far more contradictory.
Despite this, the Committee reached conclusions that are contradictory and that were not based on a comprehensive review of the available literature.
That the two imperatives may be contradictory seems not to occur. Times, Sunday Times
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.
We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
The contradictory messages and parallel lobbying efforts have angered administration officials. Times, Sunday Times
As a skilled political counsellor More had to display his rhetorical skills in justifying often mutually incompatible or contradictory statements and beliefs in the service of the state.
The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism.
Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
Such a thing can cause huge mischief, when these contradictory streams collide.
The trick is to establish just enough consistency an immediate analysis task – attempts to build a consistent map of human knowledge are doomed because human knowledge itself is messy, contingent, and often self-contradictory. Crowd-Sourced Carbon Calculators (inspired by David Mackay) | Serendipity
And then he likes to be contradictory, and his muse is the freeway and the subdevelopment, so it’s almost mandatory that he not drive. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
You keep telling parents that they lack confidence and bombard them with often contradictory advice. Times, Sunday Times
That is, for him, a propositum is "sequentially relevant" if and only if it logically follows from the positum alone; it is "incompatibly relevant" if and only if its contradictory opposite follows from the positum alone; it is "irrelevant" if and only if it is neither sequentially nor incompatibly relevant. Medieval Theories of Obligationes
Often the information is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The university has falsely combined these patently contradictory goals, making opaque the real differences between them.
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
Foreign research on the effects of pre-trial publicity is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions.
If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.
Once more, though, the poem reveals a play of language which render meaning unstable and even self-contradictory.
The contradictory nature of the process allows for no ultimate resolution.
Recently, I have begun to notice another phenomenon: contradictory placenames.
Newt Gingrich, whose candidacy has floundered, argued repeatedly with the debate panel over what he described as "gotcha" questions when his internal campaign problems and contradictory statements came up. News - latimes.com
On the surface, the term stood for two contradictory allegations: referees were afraid to call fouls when they should, and referees were calling fouls too quickly and intimidating teams from playing aggressive defense. Getting Open
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
I accept this Lucullan offering as a true compliment, and am not repelled by my host's proud description, but these reactions are contradictory. Cardiac
Marketers need to understand how to navigate the maze of contradictory consumer attitudes and behavior.
The dilemmas arise in the gray area where the national consensus is itself vague or contradictory.
I am the first to admit that the science is confusing and can seem contradictory - but the root of it, to try and ensure that future generations aren't igniting their farts to keep warm isn't exactly a hangable offence, is it? Jo Rourke: "Sustainability"
From the cool modernity of the main space, the bedrooms and bathroom offer a contradictory riot of colour, walls varying from acid green to purple throughout the five bedrooms and bathrooms.
The contradictory messages and parallel lobbying efforts have angered administration officials. Times, Sunday Times
Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
Criticised by HRW and human rights organisations within Turkey as contradictory and unverifiable, official figures released last month put total returns at only 71,000.
But the economists have erred no less gravely in rejecting a priori, and just because of the contradictory, or rather antinomical, nature of value, every idea and hope of reform, never desiring to understand that, for the very reason that society has arrived at its highest point of antagonism, reconciliation and harmony are at hand. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
The environmentalist movement itself has its own confusing and contradictory alliances with the Left. Christianity Today
To produce a new bonus tax or a complex new set of regulations would seem contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The absence of resistance in a different country is thus not contradictory to our findings.
The power of the documentary lay in her contradictory thought and deed. Times, Sunday Times
Now, the announcement is nanarupam; it is also prithak; and lastly, it is viprasthitam or contradictory, for, as the commentator points out, that which a particular asrama announces to be righteous is according to another unrighteous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
To the untutored layman's eye, it almost appears contradictory.
As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence.
He did insist on remaining human and flawed and contradictory and in touch with other people. Times, Sunday Times
The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
While some standards, such as those in anesthesia, are clear and easily complied with, others, such as in obstetrical cases, are complicated and can be contradictory. Joanne Doroshow: Peter Orszag's Truly Bad Medical Malpractice Prescription
Politicians, pollsters and the public have begun to see the issues of morality and leadership collide rather than converge, leading to contradictory and sometimes preternatural election results.
Generals admitted relying on intelligence reports of ground damage that were unverified, contradictory, erroneous and misleading.
His texts resist settling into established grooves of interpretation, and continue to engage new readers because this powerful, animated, and sometimes contradictory thinking lies so close to the surface.
This perhaps contradictory self-definition was still relevant in the referendum on the monarchy in 1999.
Speech was a required elective (which is, in the eyes of the high school student, one of the most contradictory oxymorons to be commonly spoken in the English language).
It is given each year to a person or organization in the US that has used public language that is, in the committee's judgment, deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, or self-contradictory.
This contradictory behaviour is due to its own economic myths.
It raises a confusing and contradictory series of emotions. Times, Sunday Times
However, this mode of emplacement is contradictory to well-established ideas for Archaean granites in the Zimbabwe craton.
He cannot, however, be forced in the name of tolerance to agree that all points of view, including those that are mutually contradictory, are equally valid.
To the objection that this example is contradictory, he replies that he's not trying to give a consistent model of the Trinity, but only explicating the meaning of perichoresis. Trinity
Amid all the contradictory accounts of how an aspiring actress became acquainted with the media billionaire one consistency has emerged. Times, Sunday Times
Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
This political-ideological position is deeply contradictory, and necessarily involves erasures.
There is also an apparently contradictory but equally strong behavioural imperative, which says that eating in groups is competitive, and that you need to protect your stash.
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
But there is also a good chance that you will find contradictory signals. Times, Sunday Times
The problem is an engaging one because we have two somewhat contradictory pieces of evidence. The Times Literary Supplement
In her general mode of life she was stern and silent with her guests, autocratic, authoritative and sometimes contradictory in her house, and altogether irrational and unconciliatory when any change even for a day was proposed to her, or when any shadow of a complaint reached her ears. Tales of all countries
But just might add that there has been a welter of confusing and contradictory information coming out of various parts of the leadership.
So far from being a single monolithic upsurge of rebellion on the part of an occupied people, the motives for resistance were hugely varied, and sometimes contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
Again, I and O propositions are subcontrary, but not contrary or contradictory.
The situation in war fluctuates, it is many-sided and contradictory; it blends together the essential and the superficial, the law-governed and the fortuitous, the old and the new.
The contradictory nature of the process allows for no ultimate resolution.
Consumer goods occupy a much more contradictory place in the circulation and realisation of capital than do fixed assets.
In some ways this seems a contradictory philosophy for a musician. Times, Sunday Times
Often the information is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
It was the brain behind a lot of his humor, which de-pended on reducing things (such as self-help advice) to their logically absurd and contradictory essentials. The Mind of Al Franken
Mr. Jobs, who founded Apple with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976, began his career as a seemingly contradictory blend of hippie truth seeker and tech-savvy hothead.
These biases derive from two contradictory but powerful social tendencies. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
As both from normal organogeny as well as from unusual conformation contradictory inferences may be drawn, it would obviously be unsafe to attempt the explanation of the so-called calyx-tube in general from any particular instances; so far as _Rosaceæ_ are concerned, there is so much variation in the relative position of calyx and carpels under ordinary circumstances, that it is no matter for surprise that similar diversities should exist in teratological cases. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The environmentalist movement itself has its own confusing and contradictory alliances with the Left. Christianity Today
Equally complex and contradictory are her feelings towards her husband. The Times Literary Supplement
In Scott, this tension plays itself out through the apparently contradictory styles of world-historical narrative and the "seemingly improbable portal of antiquarianism" 59. The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
The difficulty, as ever, is that it inevitably encompasses a very partial and contradictory world view.
In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
It is not contradictory, I believe, to argue at one and the same time that Bush's conception of his prerogatives of office is dictatorial (or, if one prefers, "authoritarian" or "monarchical," which is Bruce Fein's term) AND that he gives no hint of rejecting the most basic norm of American constitutionalism, which is the opportunity to vote the rascals out in an election. Balkinization
Indeed, the band's famously-honed instincts and dayglo pop-smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it's that friction extant between Chesnutt's shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of Elf Power's euphonous intraband chemistry that buoys Dark Developments, provides its freshness, and makes for rewarding repeated listening. My Old Kentucky Blog
It is messy and confusing and contradictory to look at the world situation.
These apparently contradictory signals are intrinsically linked. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, it was a smile that held no weight, for it signified a thought contradictory to its purpose.
We sat stoically as the news dribbled in, mixed with confusing and contradictory reports as the newsmen attempted to ascertain the facts.
There were, inevitably, contradictory elements in this mode of life.
This may seem a contradictory, even perverse, claim.
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space. Mind Hacks: Gallery Space Recall
It raises a confusing and contradictory series of emotions. Times, Sunday Times
These sometimes contradictory requirements for the perfect rural pile mean that it is a rare commodity. Times, Sunday Times
He has vacillated between contradictory approaches to leadership: realism and idealism.
Conclusions about creationism are made in relation to 'optimal' life without defining the word optimal or showing how creationism does not produce optimal life and intentionally combining contradictory philosophical and scientific grounds. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
He turned up to speak to journalists in person and reports of subsequent sightings of him were frustratingly vague and contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The reality is that most people have a complex, sometimes contradictory attitude to government. Times, Sunday Times
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
The singer feigns ignorance, and makes a valiant if contradictory effort to keep up appearances.
Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance.
However, I think it is quite normal to hold two views that, if taken to their logical conclusions, really are contradictory.
Speaking French has contradictory connotations, depending on the context: It is a sign of education in administrative circles but is offensive at the village level, where ‘acting like a mzungu’ is considered a sign of a bad attitude.
Life is too absurd and inconstant and contradictory to stop her from having it all, having it any way she wants. THE SAVAGE GIRL
As for the tea parties; the ideological incoherence is an outgrowth of the Republican Party’s ideological incoherence; the Republican Party’s inability to deliver on its mutually contradictory stated policy goals has discredited it, but not, apparently, the policy goals. Matthew Yglesias » How Popular is the Tea Party Movement?
Today all the information is wildly contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
But that would be contradictory to his appearance, [which] was assumed as very erotical. The Outing Of Adolf
Herein lies the primary tension between the two conflicting and apparently contradictory trends regarding immigration throughout the west.
My favorite social disrupter , Gandhi, had two seemingly contradictory quotes on the subject of contentedness.
It suggests to the outsider that he must have been exceptionally vague, and probably contradictory.
He thus ignores the complex and often contradictory nature of identity.
The Tribunal further notes the contradictory statements made by the Applicant regarding his attempts to inculpate the Secretary.
Here the data are often contradictory and difficult to interpret.
These apparently contradictory signals are intrinsically linked. Times, Sunday Times
Medical evidence is often contradictory and value laden; many decisions about treatments will be difficult.
But there is also a good chance that you will find contradictory signals. Times, Sunday Times
That man has a duty to so domesticate his passions to serve his reason we can deduce from the raw fact that the appetites are a multitude of contradictory desires, as easily able to be inconsistent with surrounding facts of reality as consistent. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
The war experiences of the individual nations are too different and internally contradictory.
Outrageously colored coats of layered fabrics were worn over ugly, contradictory coordinates.
It hovers so close because like life, it's often unfair, unpoetic, plain contradictory, and retrospectively embarrassing - few of Darnielle's stories have chronicled passions so unadorned and believable.
She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
Life, we are accustomed to either-or confrontation, in fact, a lot of things not only contradictory, but complementary.
Auerbach tries later to combine two contradictory conceptions of realism; first something which might be called existentialism: the agonizing revelations of reality in moments of supreme decisions, in “limiting situations”: Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, Madame du Chastel deciding not to rescue her son from execution, the Duke of REALISM IN LITERATURE
So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message? Will You Go See Avatar?
Since the function of conception and perception are contradictory (one pre -, the other post-fact) the author would mitigate her idea by applying subjective judgment to it. Paragraphs On Conceptual Writing : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
But the reasons, one has to admit, are hypocritical and sometimes contradictory.
The contradictory attitudes towards intoxicating drinks continue into modern times.
Amid all the contradictory accounts of how an aspiring actress became acquainted with the media billionaire one consistency has emerged. Times, Sunday Times
It is wholly contradictory to the policies and practises of Illiberal Socialism that any individual should be discriminated against on account of the number of legs they may have, the furriness or scaliness of their skin or their height.
On the one hand, nationality and internationality in cinematic art are contradictory, as films are full of ideology, and the national psychological paradigm of aesthetics is exclusive.
He's a series of contradictory characteristics - valor/cowardice, nobility/cravenness, promiscuity / uxoriousness, selfishness/camaraderie, and every one of them is genuine, as the situation demands.
What a beautiful and contradictory piece of advice. Times, Sunday Times
The environmentalist movement itself has its own confusing and contradictory alliances with the Left. Christianity Today
Where as they have not been given the title of a racist for their actions in contradiction to Joe Wilson receiving the title after his actions is a direct contradictory of how the world works. Video: AC360° panel: Racism fueled anger?
Correspondents chafed at the numerous, often contradictory, rewrites demanded by producers.
This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies.
Activists said that giving taxpayer's money to Taipower was contradictory to the government's goal of turning Taiwan into a nuclear-free homeland.
Often the anecdotes he has culled from various sources seen contradictory.
With his role shift he produced some self-contradictory ideas, which mirrored Maodun's dilemma between political pursuit and the laws in literature, as well as his intrapsychic conflicts.
Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
Attention to detail matched with unfussy yet vibrantly flavored foods may seem contradictory, but, in the hands of this chef, the combination attests to the success of his cooking philosophy.
Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation.
The basic law of logic is the principle of non-contradiction, namely that it is contradictory to say that something can both be and not be at the same time.
The power of the documentary lay in her contradictory thought and deed. Times, Sunday Times
Attention to detail matched with unfussy yet vibrantly flavored foods may seem contradictory, but, in the hands of this chef, the combination attests to the success of his cooking philosophy.
Or does it simply make clear that the church tolerates a margin of contradictory views in which extremists can flourish?
I suspect the resulting product would be contradictory - different reporters seeing different realities.
In fact, the media often present contradictory information, and audiences are frequently engaged in interpreting the meaning of the information they receive. Sociology
I felt I had truly come to know this contradictory and elusory person and came to have even greater respect for the sweep and magnificence of his achievements
Equally complex and contradictory are her feelings towards her husband. The Times Literary Supplement
These biases derive from two contradictory but powerful social tendencies. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
Contradictory circumstances he had noted intruded, uninvited, to challenge overcredulous conclusions concerning her. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
The complex and contradictory nature of Wellington himself is evident away from the public portraits. Times, Sunday Times
Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period, it might have seemed more logical.
Often the information is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
Many of these seemingly contradictory properties of the agents are related to dose.
Other post-translational modifications of HIF-1α, such as acetylation, phosphorylation and nitrosylation, were also reported, despite contradictory results with regard to their effect on HIF-1α protein stability and transcriptional activity PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
They believed that their strategy not only reconciled rapid growth with equitable distribution but made these two apparently contradictory social aims mutually supporting.
The majority of Christians will likely find this title confusing and contradictory at best and entirely entirely incompatible at worst. All articles at Blogcritics
That the two imperatives may be contradictory seems not to occur. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the media often present contradictory information, and audiences are frequently engaged in interpreting the meaning of the information they receive. Sociology
The man who would conquer his contradictory feelings, would reach bliss in the afterlife.
Subsequent to the allegations of research misconduct, his responses have been prolix, confusing, evasive and occasionally contradictory. The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles
Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France. Annette Wieviorka.
The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
And given the contradictory meanings of garnish adding to a dish or taking away from someone’s wages, it qualifies as a homographic homophonic autantonym. The Volokh Conspiracy » Horace Comes to Law School:
Massa gave contradictory explanations for his behavior, acknowledging he groped and tickled a staffer in a nonsexual way and wrestled with others at his 50th birthday party, but then denying any groping occurred. Chris Lee Shirtless Photo Controversy Prompt Congressman To Resign
The advice I received was often contradictory.
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
Glossary abá: A Tagalog exclamation of wonder, surprise, etc., often used to introduce or emphasize a contradictory statement. abaka: "Manila hemp," the fiber of a plant of the banana family. achara: Pickles made from the tender shoots of bamboo, green papayas, etc. The Social Cancer
Donors need to stop the rampant bilateralism‟ and the often-contradictory policies and priorities that plague the IHRC. Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti Still Buried Under the Rubble of Dueling NGOs: OXFAM Report
He has been caught in the spotlight of attention, which does not come easy to a contradictory man. Times, Sunday Times
Equally complex and contradictory are her feelings towards her husband. The Times Literary Supplement
Not surprisingly, the bureaucrats think ID = creationism (yet complain creationism is contradictory because ID accepts evolution) and represents a threat to democracy: Council of Europe Takes a Selective Stand
These studies lead to different, and often contradictory, conclusions.
However, subsequent studies led to contradictory conclusions.
It's a difficult piece, with knotted complexities, contradictory tonalities and a wild disposition. Times, Sunday Times
Regard a severe loss as the enterprise, contradictory crisscross, difficult problem is very much.
While some standards, such as those in anesthesia, are clear and easily complied with, others, such as in obstetrical cases, are complicated and can be contradictory. Joanne Doroshow: Peter Orszag's Truly Bad Medical Malpractice Prescription
Conflicts and confusion abounded, and hesitant, often contradictory reforms were attempted before a genuine refoundation took place with the birth of the Fifth Republic in 1958.
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Allegra entered his room, she was wearing a pair of jeans and a puffy, warm sweater, it looked expensive… but a look at her slippers was funnily contradictory.
It is hard to avoid the contemporary parallels in this lively biography, which brings this hugely contradictory character very much to life. Times, Sunday Times
At the decisive moments the watchword has always seemed to be: nothing too painful, contradictory or critical.
Some presidents leave behind records so contradictory as to cloud generalisation.
The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past. Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments
His contradictory aims mirrored a personality whose principal traits were not in harmony with each other. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
In some ways this seems a contradictory philosophy for a musician. Times, Sunday Times
They occupy a contradictory class location between the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Such a perfect, artificial cosmos of art is like an antipode to the life on the streets here, where everything is totally contradictory - where old and new, traditional and modern, poor and rich vehemently clash all day.
The antinomy is comprised of a seemingly contradictory stance among occultists and mystics that, on the one hand, regards spiritual truths as ineffable, but on the other, assumes that there is much to say about ineffability.
Deleeuw suggests that Shakespeare seems to be making rather broad hints about the contradictory nature of the play in these initial scenes.

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