Word: oxymoronality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...cultural oxymoron scale, the idea of a "Singaporean punk" weighs in somewhere between "Chinese democrat" and "Texan pacifist." Singapore is supposedly the air-conditioned Eden, as neat and ordered as the corner of a well-made bed. Forget teen angst and despair. Who despairs in heaven...