Word: paradoxical
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...congressmen and marching with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, we realize how ecumenical he was. The overall lesson here is he's a leader, and the movement is leading all of America. And that's the real emotional resonance that you get even with Rosa Parks, where we have this paradox that we have an emotional connection, that we know they did something significant but because the tradition is not that it was significant for all of America but was somehow compartmentalized for black people, we falsify and simplify the myth...
...inherited the Washington Post). "Warren has often said that you want to give your kids enough so that they don't have to worry, but not so much that they don't feel the need to work and contribute," says Bill. "It's not clear that's not a paradox, but it's a good thought." The bulk of his $46.5 billion fortune will go to the foundation, but he says he and Melinda have not decided how much to leave their children. "Our thinking will evolve," he says...
Over the next 15 or so years, as the metal oxidizes and turns green, the leaf-shadow illusion will deepen, drawing the $135 million museum further into the surrounding vegetation even as its metallic diagonals continue to resist being absorbed visually by nature. "We like to talk about paradox," says Herzog, "this thin layer masking things. In some lights this building almost disappears. In a different light it's very sculptural. Then in San Francisco you have the fog, which penetrates the perforations. We like that...
...think his alleged ignorance wasn’t their real problem. People are always asking me, “How can he move from a gospel hymn straight into a song in which juicing a woman is analogized to smoking drugs?” R deftly diffuses the paradox with a simple analogy: “It’s like how you see a lot of fat people at health clubs.” He’s right. This dichotomy is not hypocritical; it is human. Moreover, it is what we need to hear as Harvard students...
Tony Fingleton is a paradox. A boy with an unimaginably painful childhood who grew into a man overwhelmingly boyish in his optimism and energy. A victim of enormous pressures as a youth who channeled his angst into a remarkable, inspirational film. A recruited athlete who found his calling among the ranks of the cross-dressing comic actors of the Pudding. Tony Fingleton is living, breathing, grinning proof that it can happen here...