Word: paradoxe
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After the latest slaughter -- this time on a New York commuter train < -- America faces the paradox of its battle over guns. Each crime creates a fresh wave of terror, a louder demand for gun control -- and a larger demand for guns...
...must remain a paradox largely incomprehensible to these liberals that much of the strongest conservative support comes not from the very wealthy but from the working classes. The vast majority of conservatives here at Harvard are from extremely modest, working-class backgrounds. My own academically-employed family is the exception rather than the rule. But true conservatives recognize that there are values whose conservation is more important than the conservation of wealth and principles the universal extension of which is more important than equality of income...
...stop-go cycle of austerity and relaxation results from a paradox. China's reformist economy "suffers not from too much central control but too little," notes Richard Margolis, an executive at the Smith New Court Far East investment firm in Hong Kong. Much of the country's inflation last year, for example, resulted from Beijing's malnourishment by the primitive taxation system. With more than 80% of all tax revenues left in provincial coffers, the central government simply printed more money to finance its major infrastructure undertakings. At the same time, provincial authorities launched an orgy of speculative development projects...
...language is blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues...
...with shrapnel when his unit was attacked by gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Recuperating at home near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Malasig is eager to return to his unit in Somalia. But if he does return, he knows it will be to a place bedeviled by bloodshed and paradox. "It's like this," he explains, "I was driving down the road one day, and there were these two little boys. The one on the left side was waving and smiling. The one on the right side threw a rock that broke my mirror...