Word: oxymoron
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...Keyes registers less than 2% support in national polls of Republican voters (he came in fifth in last week's Iowa straw poll) and has a ramshackle organization, he has emerged as one of the campaign's most compelling--and curious--figures. He is , first of all, a political oxymoron, a black Republican ("The Invisible Man" is how he describes his life in the G.O.P.); a Harvard Ph.D. with a daily three-hour populist talk-radio show; and a black Roman Catholic whose principal appeal is to white Evangelicals...
...hard, cold cash changes hands in these transactions, but they are nevertheless transactions. It may be true, as fashion critic Michael Gross says, that "fashion journalism is an oxymoron.'' Still, a basic assumption is made by readers of these service magazines-namely, that the editorial judgments reflected in their pages are not made by people accustomed to receiving gratuities from designers. But here's how it really works: "It's very important to the designers to have editors wear their clothes," explains retailing consultant Vicky Ross in a classic bit of understatement. It cuts the other way too: the fashion...
...civil discourse is an oxymoron in the U.S. today. Can't the prevalence of ad hominem attacks and demonization in our politics be seen as having helped inspire last Wednesday's insanity? The dots need not be connected for some connections to be considered...
...ethics society. Can anyone say "oxymoron"? Now, we at Dartboard will readily admit that premeds don't have a monopoly on unethical behavior. The pre-law and pre-investment banking students are pretty evil too. But at least they're honest about being sleazy. Unlike the pre-meds, they don't try to hide their sliminess and greed behind a veneer of altruism...
...said that the phrase "Jewish writer" is an oxymoron, since for her "Jewish" implies civic responsibility, while a fiction writer is a "wild, untamed beast...