How To Use Self-contradictory In A Sentence
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
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Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'.
News You Shouldn't Use
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He is described as a Texas oil millionaire and environmentalist, which might appear to be self-contradictory.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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Then Krugman's famous dictum that central banks should commit to be credibly irresponsible is somewhat self-contradictory.
Transcript: Shirakawa on Japan's Economy
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Joan was talky and self-contradictory.
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It was a strange, provoking, deliberately self-contradictory tale, which instantly sparked heated commentary.
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The facial expression becomes comparatively unchanging and masklike; walking becomes stiff, and the arms remain motionless instead of swinging naturally with the stride, This combination of too little movement in arms and face and too much movement in head and hands receives the self-contradictory name of paralysis agitans (aj'ih-tans; "to move" L).
The Human Brain
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Traditional binary confrontation of "practice-cognition" is metaphysical and self-contradictory.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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Wisdom vies with cleverness, banal truth runs alongside barefaced delusion; a pottage of self-contradictory homilies for the credulous and childish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, laughter too; for in the self-contradictory convolutions of human thought and action, the funny can, innocently or not, coexist with the most tragic.
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Admittedly this metaphysics is incoherent and unformulated (as indeed it has to be, for when formulated it becomes self-contradictory).
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Well, I suppose totally incoherent and / or self-contradictory answers might cause the person to "flunk" in a certain way, but I don't think the tmatt trio is some tool to enforce orthodoxy.
GetReligion
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Even better -- her argument sounds like an implicit vindication of Reagan, but that really just makes it either self-contradictory or hostile to Reagan's legacy.
Sarah Palin's weird 'Sputnik' story
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Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2005) [iii] See Andreas Umland, "Elektoral'nyi avtorytaryzm postsovets'koï demokratiï [- a self-contradictory title formulated by the editors of the journal]," Krytyka, no.
OpenDemocracy
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
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The grounds for this counter-claim are that if the judgment is a moral judgment, as I assumed, then demonolatry - the worship of evil spirits - would be self-contradictory.
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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
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Once more, though, the poem reveals a play of language which render meaning unstable and even self-contradictory.
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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.
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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
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So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message?
Will You Go See Avatar?
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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.
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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
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Put another way, this self-contradictory assassin is actually more of a Marxist than McCollum, who actually wants to end frivolous government spending on, you know, stock car races.
Bob Cesca: Most Americans Are Big Government Socialists in Denial
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Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
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Another self-contradictory part of the paper is its explanation for China's increase of defense spending from 93.4 billion renminbi in 1998 to 121.2 billion renminbi in 2000, the ministry said.
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(The self-contradictory flashback/dream sequence/prophecy that takes place in Rheims, in Ink & Steel, for example: I could not have written that scene in 2001.
Funny how the whole world--historically--feels the urge to chase the sun to rest
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This means that any critique of liberalism is self-contradictory if it promotes particularism as an alternative.
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Unlike Angelica's self-contradictory and ultimately self-revelatory epistles, which are "keys" only to a whited sepulchre, the Biblical epistles reveal that the Bible provides its own authoritative guide to interpretation.
Religion
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The second problem is traditionally met by replacing memory with a new concept, “retrocognition” or “quasi-memory”, which is just like memory but without the identity requirement: even if it is self-contradictory to say that I remember doing something I didn't do,
Personal Identity
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Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'.
Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye
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If this thing is annihilated in thought, the internal possibility of the thing is also annihilated, which is self-contradictory.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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The marvel for Sinclair, was how self-contradictory the newspapers could be without either apparently noticing or caring.
THE SCAR