Word: oxymoronality
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Gonzo journalism takes the oxymoron "objective journalism" and laughs in its face. When Thompson "covers" an event, he writes through his own eyes and experiences, because it is the best--if not the only--way to convey what he has seen...
...crying out loud, the very name itself is misleading, if not an oxymoron. It's called "spring training," but by the time the vernal equinox is a reality, the regular season is only days away...
...those who spend most their lives sitting in the bleachers or carting sacrifices to the shrine of Bear Bryant, the term "Harvard athlete" hovers somewhere between oxymoron and punchline...
...reality. "The Divine Mimesis" is full of wornout catchphrases of the Italian left; the souls Pasolini-Dante meets in his Inferno are "conformisti piccolo-borghesi" (petit-bourgeois conformists), and their sins are "il conformismo," "la volgarita," "la moralita." Pasolini always had a fondness for the antithesis, for the oxymoron; but in his recent writings the language degenerates into phrases that are cliches before they are coined: "the masses have chosen as their religion the condition of not having one, without knowing," vulgarity is the full bloom of conformity," or "this banal originality." Pasolini owed his fame as a poet...
...booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show-biz politician." Because almost a quarter of the 635 seats in the Commons changed during last year's two elections, Roth's directory has grown increasingly useful to Parliament watchers...