Word: paradoxical
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Even when the candidates publicly consider tax increases, they never call them that. Instead, tax increases become "revenue enhancers." Can "negative refunds" be far behind? Confronted with the paradox that playing it straight with the voters equals electoral disaster, Presidential aspirants have understandably chosen to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation...
...canal outdoors, across a plaza and into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight. Yet for all the house's risky paradox -- B-movie imagery conceived with restraint and accomplished with first-rate production values -- it succeeds breathtakingly. Shirley MacLaine would be happy here, but so, maybe, would Mies van der Rohe...
These experiments illustrate the paradox at the heart of today's computer science. The most powerful computing machines -- giant number crunchers possessed of speed and storage capacities beyond human comprehension -- are essentially dumb brutes with no more intellectual depth than a light bulb. At the other extreme are computers that have begun to exhibit the first glimmers of human-like reasoning, but only within the confines of narrowly defined tasks...
...everything from the origin of the universe to the history of life to human society and psychology. Sheldrake's ideas are tied closely to antireductionism and musings by some physicists on "the anthropic principle"--the idea that life and mind are somehow necessary to the universe. This sort of paradox leads Sheldrake to the radical position that changeless laws do not exist, and he has no use for what he disparagingly calls the "nominalist-materialist school,"--in other words, modern science...
...This paradox shimmers throughout Flights of Passage: the war makes men out of Hynes and his comrades but also allows them to remain boys, irresponsible, as free as the birds when they climb into their cockpits. The author and his fellow pilots get to Okinawa on April 19, 1945, and participate in the tail end of the war in the Pacific. Two of Hynes' closest friends are killed, leaving him bereft and confused: "I didn't know how a man grieves." Suddenly, the war is over. While waiting for orders to return home, Hynes and his surviving mates are nearly...