Word: oxymoronality
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...term flexible freeze is an oxymoron. I want to se the program...
Those who are confident that Amsterdam has the skills to run the Post wonder how she will fare in a news organization where many consider journalistic ethics to be an oxymoron. Last year Amsterdam abruptly resigned from Manhattan,inc., claiming that Owner and Publisher D. Herbert Lipson was interfering too much in editorial matters. Before signing a three-year contract at a reported salary of $200,000 at the Post, however, Amsterdam says she received assurances that she will be given a free hand to edit a paper that is "accurate, responsible, well-reported and ethical." The liberal- leaning editor...
...best description of Bellman and True is an oxymoron: it is, of all things, a dour caper. That is, a usually merry cinematic enterprise -- the one in which a group of swagmen laugh all the way to the supposedly impenetrable bank vault from which they intend to extract millions -- is shown with brutal realism...
...tongue and on the ball, metal wood is the dumbest-sounding oxymoron since jumbo shrimp. But, like television journalist, its usage has proliferated beyond the inventors' dreams. Once lovingly crafted of tempered wood, the heads of drivers are going steel. If even Nicklaus is bonging these days instead of bashing, the game has certainly changed. "I still hit the ((old)) persimmon club one or two yards longer," he estimates with charming precision, "but I hit the metal wood straighter. That's what convinced me. I feel very confident now that I'm going to drive the ball in the fairway...
...more intellectual than ideological: he is more comfortable dealing with the abstractions and technicalities of arms control or the greenhouse effect than he is leading ideological battles. Whereas the father often demonstrated a kind of moderate rage on moral issues, the son describes himself as a "raging moderate." The oxymoron is appropriate, because Al Gore is a mixture of opposite, sometimes contradictory elements...