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• Parton’s hometown, the small rural church of his childhood was a paradoxical institution.2026 August 30, Ruth Graham, Emily Cochrane, “Dolly Parton and the ‘Pretty Darn Good’ Southern Church”, in The New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry balm
• In the dromosphere there is only the paradoxical possibility of an immediate memory.2014, G. Schiller, S. Rubidge, Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place, →ISBN. From the entry dromosphere
• I have named this paradoxical position—a combination of belief and antiworship —as misotheism.2013, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, OUP Oxford, →ISBN. From the entry antiworship
• Food historians believe this paradoxical treat began pleasing its adoring public sometime around the 19th century.2011, Ann Treistman, “Baked Alaska”, in Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?: The Fascinating Stories Behind America's Favorite Foods, New…. From the entry baked Alaska
• The paradoxical use of an overture at the end of a concert occasionally gave rise to satire in the musical press.2017 April 27, Steven Vande Moortele, The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry overture
• There is a paradoxical element in this, which often will bring the client back to a balanced or opposite perspective.2017, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman, Emily L. Bilek, Brian A. Buzzella, Shannon M. Bennett, David H. Barlow…. From the entry roll with it
• This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.2012, Catherine M. Otto, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry leftward
• As a series of polysemic and paradoxical sketches, Jackass does not lend itself to one particular theoretical analysis.2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume…. From the entry polysemic
• And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.2000, Carlos del Pulgar Sabín, Artists Painters: Regionalism III, page 256. From the entry exultating
• The notion of retaining empirics may seem paradoxical when the tenets of holism and the requirements of empirics are scrutinized.1990, Norma L. Chaska, The Nursing Profession: Turning Points, page 249. From the entry empirics
• Thus experience becomes literally ‘spectacularised’ by a paradoxical distance in bodily time while maintaining spatial proximity, again very like the perception of a film audience.2007, Keith Williams, “Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories”, in H. G. Wells, Modernity and…. From the entry gargantuanly
• Every product has this paradoxical essence.2001, Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl, →ISBN. From the entry paradessence
• The paradoxical view of the dynamics of the situation explains the meaning of the word “pessoptimist,” coined from the partial merger of “optimist” and “pessimist.”2001, Emile Habibi, translated by Trevor LeGassick, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist, Interlink Books…. From the entry pessoptimist
• Herbivory is a paradoxical interspecific interaction.1998, Sam Scheiner, Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry herbivory
• The most reliable radiographic maneuver to detect paradoxical movement is the sniff test, consisting of rapidly repeated inspirations through the nostrils during fluoroscopy.1995, Katherine Malagari, Robert G. Fraser, edited by Charis Roussos, The Thorax […] Part C: Disease (Lung Biology in Health and Disease…. From the entry sniff test
• Normally, both hemidiaphragms descend sharply during a sniff, but with unilateral disphragmatic paralysis there is paradoxical upward motion of the affected side.1995, Katherine Malagari, Robert G. Fraser, edited by Charis Roussos, The Thorax […] Part C: Disease (Lung Biology in Health and Disease…. From the entry sniff test
• Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability.1989, Irving Singer, The Nature of Love. From the entry metastability
• A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things.1979, Finn Ronne, Antarctica, My Destiny, Hastings House, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry whiteout
• "Jamie was thinking that perhaps he might fly back in time to when he didn't have a beard but that solution is fraught with paradoxical contradictions," he explained.2013, How Does Superman Shave? The MythBusters Have a Few Theories, Wired. From the entry mid-pubescent
• Clinically, hypertumors could be related to several paradoxical classes of tumors which, despite showing an aggressive histology, tend to spontaneously regress, such as some cases of neuroblastoma.2007, Mathematical Reviews, page 4127. From the entry hypertumor
• Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests.1996, Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon, →ISBN. From the entry postclass
• It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women.1994, Per Schelde, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters, page 75. From the entry semichild
• Since the very same reasons supporting the paradoxicality of Z apply equally to C, it is clear that both Z and C are paradoxical; hence, the Chrysippus intuition is false.2007 December 25, Jay Newhard, “The Chrysippus intuition and contextual theories of truth”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number…. From the entry paradoxicality

Meaning of paradoxical

1. adjective Having self-contradictory properties.

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How do you use paradoxical in a sentence?

Paradoxical is used as an adjective. For example: “By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity.”

What is a short sentence with paradoxical?

“Every product has this paradoxical essence.”

What does paradoxical mean?

Paradoxical means having self-contradictory properties.