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How to use paradox in a sentence

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It exposes the paradox that Plath's texts cannot be read through biography and cannot be read apart from it.
It is neatly ironic, but it also exposes the paradox at the heart of this solo show.
It appears to emanate from the formulation of a rather artificial linguistic paradox.
This particular hymn 28 celebrates the paradox of the incarnation, alluding to the feasts of Easter and the Ascension.
Under coopetition there is a paradox that the knowledge shared for cooperation may also be used for competition.
For to do so leads inevitably to a logical contradiction via a version of Russell's paradox.
The set theory paradoxes first appeared around 1903 with the publication of Russell's paradox.
In light of antinomies like Russell's paradox, there was no certainty that the set theory was even consistent.
In his more lucid moments he attempts to hide behind a paradox declaring that after all he doesn't believe his beliefs.
The great cyclist paradox is that bikers want to act like either pedestrians or automobiles, depending on which is more convenient at the time.
Her main interest lies in revealing the paradox in this critique of Austrian culture.
But these merely contingent facts have no bearing on the question of whether the paradox has any logical force.
My reason is that the removal of the time-consuming and tiring drudgery has produced a paradox.
What this paradox reveals is that Hegel's position on women is neither a product of contingency nor an effect of ad hoc prejudice.
For Sigmund Freud, childhood was a paradox in that one's identity emerges at the very time when one's morals and emotions are shapeless.
In the ultimate paradox, submission was to be the only meaningful route left to national self-assertion.
Given the dialogic nature of language, the paradox of intertextuality is that repetition can involve semantic renewal and difference.
The interest of his thought today lies precisely in the way he finesses this apparent paradox.
It's an odd paradox that as Alex comes to terms with these events from his past, he struggles to ignore and repress them.
She, as a woman, cannot be trusted with the technology, and therein lies the paradox.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Lance had always understood there were equations on file at hq, which explained the paradox.
But I first made a copy of all that relates to Prester John, himself a paradox.
We shall find this apparent paradox running all through the illuminist movement to the present day.
I've been considering the problem of the apparent paradox of a high technology in a ritual-taboo system.
A paradox this to Maimon, and roundly denied as impossible when he first heard of it.
This paradox demonstrates the irreconcilability of theoretical ethics and industrial need.
For the paradox of Hazlitt was not that he was a thinker, but a dreamer.
Galileo was the author of the hydrostatic paradox and other sketches.
The whole is a ruin, yet intact, if I may be pardoned the paradox.
It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers.
It has all the paradox of original sin in the service of aboriginal faith.
Benhabib begins with Rousseau because she credits him with the clear articulation of the paradox of democratic legitimation.
Often dissimilarity is affected as adding piquancy of paradox.
Here Paul contrasts human wisdom, which the Corinthians value, with the paradox of the cross and the lowliness of the apostle.
In bringing about the paradox of staticising Courbet, Manet feminised him.
Not the world,' but the 'one wise man,' is still the paradox of Socrates in his last hours.
Some might risk the odd paradox that with more animalism he would have been the nobler man.
His next concern is to explain away the air of paradox, for James was never wilfully paradoxical.
To a Frenchman, everything is a platitude that is not a paradox.
The tangle gun propelled a plastic bullet, and that plastic was a paradox.
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