Word: paradoxical
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...League baseball schedule is somewhat of a paradox, both generously forgiving and callously cruel...
creator of the group. I do end up explaining the paradox every time...
Globalization, especially in the wake of the financial cataclysm, presents an interesting paradox. As interdependences and exchanges around the world expand, multiply, and intensify, more and more problems require multilateral solutions. However, as more and more states have a crucial and invested say in these problems, multilateral consensus becomes more difficult to reach. The fact that 20 of the world’s richest economies were able to come to some kind of consensus when there appeared to be giant rifts speaks volumes and provides hope for the future...
...years right after the October Revolution, before Stalin put his very big foot down and imposed the rule of socialist orthodoxy in all artistic realms. A short episode of utopianism that ended in its own flood of blue tears, those years seem to epitomize for him the absurdity and paradox of politics...
...addition to funding and related time commitments, my daily life is a personal testament to the gray-area-athleticism paradox. I get to prance around campus in my wildly comfortable gray DHA tuxedo, but since club participants get final picks at the gear, it is sized more appropriately for an offensive lineman than for myself. I also get the opportunity to travel to away football games as part of my team’s budget, although the mandatory trips take place in a white sniper-esque van driven by a coach or teammate. And starting with this season...