Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Soviet Union will probably increase its armament production as part of Khrushchev's heavy industry program, Shulman said this may paradoxically be due to the recent rearmament of Western Germany: "The paradox of out situation is that the fruition of our plans and policies in building our strength and cohesion may at the same time increase our immediate danger...
...certain to outrage anyone who admired the skill and the love with which the novelist threaded his theology through the mazes of a human heart. In the film, the Roman Catholic hero's suicide, the event that phrases the whole question of salvation in a cruel and beautiful paradox, is averted; and the threads of motive and meaning wind up in a thoroughly messy theological tangle...
...grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality, Wilde explained exactly-and sentimentally-why his brilliant career ended so ignominiously. "What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate...
...first of i.e., The Cambridge Review gains its significance from a short story by E. Beuhling entitled In the Forested Plains. The style of this story maintains with brilliant subtlety and consistency the tone of paradox and indirection indicated by its title. That its analysis sometimes attains a frightening level of acuteness and power is hardly to be wondered at, for to the mind which views passion as the sole, incontrovertible, demoniac power, ("I reveled in the factuality of the rat") all lesser experience attains a strangely new but clear focus. Morality has long become debased to the procedure...
Although the main body of the picture flows along without undue surprise, the final fifteen minutes are the very best of Priestly with mystery, paradox and suspense. In all, it is a most worthy picture...