| Are we going to take the narrow view which sees Scottish Opera as an oxymoron, and opera and classical music as not really Scottish? |
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| He is a man who, when he was pillaging for the Federal government, reduced the term Public Service to an oxymoron. |
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| My Mum is a domestic goddess, although I would submit that the phrase is an oxymoron. |
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| Your Honour secondly asked about the phrase, the apparent oxymoron of non-exclusive possession acts. |
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| The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics. |
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| One day I sat her down to explain to her the word oxymoron and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults. |
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| It kinda seems an oxymoron but thinking about it, isn't anarchy just extreme liberalism? |
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| This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron. |
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| It may sound like an oxymoron, but new candy chews and candy bars that promise dental benefits and added vitamins are coming to the candy store. |
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| What he has written is contemporary history, if the term is not altogether an oxymoron. |
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| A security alliance that is seen as diminishing rather than increasing security would become an oxymoron. |
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| But the language of paradox, oxymoron and subtle contradiction – the language of children – does better. |
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| I would also ask you to keep a concept in mind, even though you might consider it to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. |
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| As the tragedies of the following years demonstrated, to speak of communism and freedom has always represented a patent oxymoron. |
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| For some the term is an oxymoron, used only jokingly when referring to the number of keggers that one manages to get trashed at during a school term. |
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| By contrast, the very idea of false knowledge is an oxymoron. |
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| I mean, this is an oxymoron, there's nothing free about the speech today. |
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| Perfect if you enjoy the oxymoron of a synonym being an antonym. |
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| First of all, I can assure you that the concept of a banker and childcare is not an oxymoron? |
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| The term native-English speaker itself can be an oxymoron sometimes. |
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| The prose poem is a hybrid form, an anomaly if not a paradox or oxymoron. |
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| Is there a safe gun or is that an oxymoron like a safe cigarette? |
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| At worst, the phrase is veering toward oxymoron status, remindful of the comedian George Carlin's famous routine about jumbo shrimp. |
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| That is why the main management challenge of today is to create some kind of intelligent cost cutting, which to many will sound like an oxymoron. |
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| I guess that is almost an oxymoron because there is nothing about policy in their economic approach. |
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| Organized Anarchism seems like an oxymoron, but much can be learned from their beliefs. |
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| A hard border is a real possibility, and a frictionless border is almost an oxymoron. |
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| An easy Christmas that involves cooking a large meal is an oxymoron. |
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| There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over. |
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| Roosevelt was a proud hunter-conservationist in the era when the term was not an oxymoron, but more recent American presidents have had to watch their enthusiasm for country sports as carefully as Tory politicians in Britain. |
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| Temporary extinction is an oxymoron, and few would find it acceptable for the value of clean water downstream to be temporarily traded-off against the benefits of some polluting processes upstream. |
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| Could this be the automotive world's biggest oxymoron? |
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| Liberal and Conservative economics is really an oxymoron. |
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| Really, the Liberal government is an oxymoron. |
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| But I am bound to say that in my Member State it may cause some confusion since a non-legislative action described as an act is possibly something of an oxymoron in UK terms. |
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| We also learned that distribution in Canada is an oxymoron. |
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| It may seem like something of an oxymoron to say that because, at first glance, a person might think that if the diseases and disorders are so very rare then how can it be that so many people's lives are affected. |
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| We have seen more flip-flops on this issue, but it is still sticking by the old principles, and I know it is an oxymoron, of the former Reform Party. |
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| In fact, Conservative fiscal management is kind of an oxymoron. |
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| Stopping without quitting sounds like an oxymoron but it can be done. |
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| Language can be a lot of fun, and one of the best examples is the oxymoron, generally defined as a figure of speech that combines seemingly contradictory terms. |
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| Baptist intoleration in any form becomes a virtual oxymoron. |
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| Other publications include the Isis magazine, The Owl Journal, the satirical Oxymoron, and the graduate Oxonian Review. |
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