Word: oxymorons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SLACKER EPIC? SOUNDS LIKE AN oxymoron. Usually movies about the young and well rested feature no more than a padful of twenty-somethings making disaffected comments about the life that is passing them by. In Beautiful Girls, however, doping off is portrayed as the great no-growth industry of a small New England town buried in snow and youthful regrets. And because its creators bring to the topic of fecklessness its opposite qualities--ambition, energy, intelligence--they transform it into something interesting...
...Contract with America. But these days the notion of compassion is at the heart of both the national political debate and the presidential campaign. Concerned that voters see them as heartless technocrats, more and more Republicans want to make sure that the phrase compassionate conservative is not an oxymoron. The derivation of compassion means "to suffer with," and some conservatives, like William Bennett and Arianna Huffington, are worried that come the election next fall, they might suffer for not having shown enough...
Terkel also delved into the problems of young Americans, worrying about the new oxymoron of "conservative youth...
...Faculty...talent--I know what oxymoron means," said Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner...
...surface that label seems a bit of an oxymoron; the Mormon church is not well known for liberal attitudes toward women or politics...