Word: oxymoron
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...immigration question is inseparable from any such debate about American identity. It is a frequent (and annoying) conceit of pro–immigration liberalism that pro–immigration conservatism is an oxymoron. Such conservatives support an agenda that serves the long-term interests both of immigrants themselves and of a cohesive Americanism. They believe a program that is at once vigorously pro–immigrant and unashamedly pro–assimilation makes for a stronger America...
Singer told the crowd that friends and colleagues initially responded incredulously when he announced he would write about Bush’s ethics. Some called the topic “an oxymoron,” while others joked that “it must be a very short book,” Singer said...
...handle his Stateside negotiations he hired Arn Tellem, known in the Japanese press by the oxymoron omoiyari no aru dairinin, "the compassionate agent." It was Tellem who delivered Hideki Matsui to the Yankees for three years and $21 million. "We feel he understands the needs of the Japanese people," says sportswriter Chiho Yamashita...
...from whence they stole the introduction to “12:51.” If Room On Fire turns out to have as much juice in it as Is This It, The Strokes should be on their way to becoming that sublime oxymoron, the snob’s pop band, as Outkast already have. Here’s hoping, because otherwise we’re stuck listening to cousins Chingy and Britney, the inbred...
...avoiding adoption of the ?roadmap? may be based in no small part in fears over its destination. The document envisions, in Phase II, "the option of creating an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders and attributes of sovereignty." This delicate bit of diplo-speak is nothing if not an oxymoron - the first attribute of sovereignty is surely precisely defined borders. But even in its third phase, the "roadmap" simply envisages Israel and the Palestinians negotiating a final status agreement that would settle the borders and all outstanding conflict issues...