Word: paradoxical
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...they displayed considerable craft. Each song had its separate pieces that were put together elegantly. The crowd enthusiastically nodded to the beat. Everyone was engaged and there were few boundaries pushed. As the ideal of what mainstream hip-hop should be like, it was a great capper to the paradox of a very solid, yet all-over-the-place night of performances, relatively free of negative bullshit. —Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu
...more sense to talk to the professors, to talk to your TFs.” But Kline said that it was unclear what fraction of students who skip are doing so out of protest. “An ‘unoffficial boycott’ seems to me [a] paradox,” Kline wrote. “How it is to be distinguished from mere absence, or laziness?” Both Frieden and Gates said that students might be confused by the change in format this semester since the tutorial has had far fewer lectures in previous years...
Ultimately, Mansfield does not endeavor to resolve the paradox of manliness, only to defend its virtues to a generation that he fears might otherwise consign it to the rubbish heap...
...belly of a tanker truck. They know they can get a job no one else wants, save some money, send some home, maybe find a way to bring their family--because someday this border may not look anything like what it does now: a barbed-wire paradox, half pried open, half bolted closed...
...some equally hilarious Nick Cannon DVD. “I Want to Be Quaded”: The Fallacy According to our “inside” source, an overwhelming number of blocking groups are making the bold claim that they want to live in the Quad. The great paradox of this mentality is that future blockmates tell each other that they will enjoy the closeness that living so far away from school will foster between them. In the back of their minds they all realize that they will eventually have singles where they can sit by themselves thinking...