paradoxical

How To Use paradoxical In A Sentence

• The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
• But that’s people who haven’t read about paradoxicality and the fact that this is a multilevel, post-quantum universe that we live in. Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
• For in opening their lives to the entire expanse of Greco-Arabic and Hebrew learning, the dictionally pure Jewish poets of Cordoba, Granada, and Saragossa carried out an act of profound, if paradoxical, cultural redemption. The Lost Jewish Culture
• Where policy is radically dissociated from the reality of death, the paradoxical result is a society dominated by the logic of death.
• His actorly slam-dunk is equalled, however, by half-lidded ingenue Scarlett Johansson, whose sheer unlikelihood as a romantic foil paradoxically renders her perfect.
• Thus the rigorous intellectualism of serialism and the freedom of aleatoric processes are not paradoxical, but stem from the same mindset.
• Paradoxically, the political situation is so desperate, so apparently hopeless, that everyone understands the responsibility of casting their vote.
• The paradoxical tragedy of knowing this, condemns him to being given to the terrorists by his stepfather, assuring his silence this way.
• In a paradoxical way, I think the opposite has occurred. Times, Sunday Times
• This is because taking it for too long can have the paradoxical effect of making bones more brittle. Times, Sunday Times