Word: paradoxical
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...whether it is all real. We recognize the famous faces and voices of the likes of Ethan Hawke, Steven Soderbergh and the director, but we wonder: Is that really them? Or an animated representation of them? The technology tells us it’s both. It is this paradox that makes the dreamworld from which Wiggins finds he cannot escape all the more intense...
...paradox is that standing so close to Bush has given Blair a lot of running room. Flying to the U.S. on Sept. 20, he phoned Iran's President Mohammed Khatami to explore whether Iran might join the antiterror coalition and worked out a deal to send his Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to Tehran; then he uncorked the plan to Bush over dinner. Bush was surprised, but immediately suggested that Straw tell the Iranians they could have a new relationship with Washington if they renounced terror. Blair knows from his travels that many Arabs who disdain Osama bin Laden's terror...
...paradox of great autobiography is that it demands, above all, a kind of self-effacement - in the sense that the truth can only be presented self-effacingly. Words stick to a written page. Gottlieb has a hard job ahead...
...fellow who happens to agree with my way of thinking and who, in 2000, acted upon that philosophy-in spades. The experience saw him win big for losing, profit mightily by suffering the humbling experience of having not qualified for an event. The stuff and substance behind this apparent paradox says something about golf today, and speaks volumes about...
...Some miraculous medical pre-emptions are possible. But the promise of them has tended to override the wholesome memes of humility and common sense. That way lies tragedy, farce, and paradox: You try for the perfect human... you get the ultimate inhumanity...