Word: paradoxity
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...summer seminar, he recalls the "moving and pathetic" there days at Hiroshima. "It was hard explaining," he recalls, "why you take their guns and ships and tanks away and then five years later you urge them to rearm. It just seemed inconsistent." Perhaps he was thinking of this paradox when he later wrote for The Atlantic: ". . . vast segments of our people are . . . devouring treatises on peace of mind, when everbody knows there is no peace...
...rather a paradox," Whitlock continued, "that as we make improvements to the Dudley facilities, more students move into the Houses...
Although the Soviet Union will probably increase its armament production as part of Khrushchev's heavy industry program, Shulman said this may paradoxically be due to the recent rearmament of Western Germany: "The paradox of out situation is that the fruition of our plans and policies in building our strength and cohesion may at the same time increase our immediate danger...
...certain to outrage anyone who admired the skill and the love with which the novelist threaded his theology through the mazes of a human heart. In the film, the Roman Catholic hero's suicide, the event that phrases the whole question of salvation in a cruel and beautiful paradox, is averted; and the threads of motive and meaning wind up in a thoroughly messy theological tangle...
...grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality, Wilde explained exactly-and sentimentally-why his brilliant career ended so ignominiously. "What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate...