Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undecided. He may have written himself into this state of uncertainty with his grim and impressive new novel, The Chamber (Doubleday; 486 pages; $24.95). That's the feel of the book; it's not a tract in fictional form but a work produced by painful writhing over a terrible paradox: vengeance may be justified, but killing is a shameful, demeaning response to evil...
...seeming paradox, the mass of the top quark is nearly 200 times that of a proton. As a result scientists have likened this experiment to smashing together two tennis balls and finding a bowling ball in their place...
...paradox of leadership is that voters are partial to candidates who seem both bigger than they are and yet are also one of them. When Mandela lived underground as an outlaw in the early 1960s and was dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets...
...case was dominated by a key paradox: evenas the department's senior leadership, in anattempt to defend its investigation, argued thatPerry and Auterio were guilty of theft, the guardsremained employees in good standing with theHarvard Police Department. Their boss, Manager ofOperations for Security Robert J. Dowling, eventestified for the defense...
...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...