Word: paradoxe
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...first was not being born among heathens. Second, because of my feet I wasn't called up for the army--so I couldn't desert. And third, it so happens that I can only get it up with my wife. So I can't cheat. You see the paradox. As I couldn't rebel against the Church or the army or matrimony, here I am, a rebel, an infidel and a libertine by nature, living life like a scared bourgeois...
...fact that a paper is free does not imply that it has no objective economic value. Products with no economic value do not last very long, and yet many of these free papers persist far longer than one would expect for economically worthless entities. How would Campbell resolve this paradox...
They can also be dangerous, and that is their paradox. For while they were created to diminish risk, they can introduce more because of the sheer volume of money that rides on them. These side bets pull with them a real world of securities worth 30 times their value. Experts worried about the perils of such instruments have no trouble coming up with bleak scenarios. For instance, a utility company, trying to protect itself from an expected rise in oil prices, borrows lots of money to buy a derivative contract that will enable the firm to purchase oil in three...
...movie handles this paradox with comfortable predictability. Not only does the story tap into the archetypal American dream, it draws its script exclusively from time-honored traditions of red-blooded American slapstick jokes, formulaic characters, and racial stereotypes. Everything is familiar and expected, kind of like an old armchair with beer stains that has been sitting in the family basement forever--not particularly attractive or inviting, but no one ever bothers to move it to the junk heap...
...army doctor and in his work at the Kiryat Arba clinic, Goldstein was a paradox: a devoted physician, but not for Arabs. "He would say, 'He's an enemy of my people. I didn't come here to treat enemies,' " recalls Barbara Ginsberg, an American official of Kach who knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb...