Word: oxymoronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Television: "Entertainment news" is an oxymoron...
...just given here for the convenience of the students," she continued. Now there's an oxymoron: convenient and uncomfortable...
...chaos is an inevitable by-product of an economy turned upside down, but aviation experts warn that air travel is an enterprise in which even minute compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...
...unbelievable for its intended effect. Yet, with post-modern sensibility, mere reality was not the object of depiction, but derision. By subverting the most fundamental principles of a democratic legislature, the council provocatively demonstrated the absurdity of "representative democracy." Through their deft drama, the political concept essentially becomes an oxymoron...