Word: paradoxity
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...later, by a strange paradox, the Chamber of Deputies upheld the Premier on a straight vote of confidence by 290 to 246 votes, but 87 Deputies abstained from voting. At the same time, an event occurred which virtually spelled the downfall of the Cabinet. After the Government had declared and reiterated that an increase in the fiduciary note circulation was needed solely for commercial purposes and that new money would be obtained by a forced consolidation loan conscripting 10% of the national wealth at 3% interest, it was made known through the publication of the weekly statement of the Bank...
...stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
With a pessimism natural in disappointment those who had vision of a glorious efflorescence of genius fear the bloodless dominion of my evalism. It is thought that literature and the arts cannot endure the blight of a new are of Babbitts But paradox as it is, the post-war idealists are almost too practical for practical purposes. If they would embody their ideals at once into institutions, they would take away the incentive needed for further progress. Given a vision plus an obstacle hindering its attainment, one has the true settings which makes for intellectual advancement...
...race, for their avowed policy and boast is to "muddle through somehow"; yet they have just turned their thumbs down on the party which walks in the middle of the road. They see that since Liberals have become more and more indistinguishable from Conservatives, the new amalgamation is no paradox, but only another form of elimination...
After leaving the university, he worked for a time in a children's clinic, then went to Paris and studied under Dr. Charcot, the famed neurologist. It was here, to use a paradox, that he became conscious of the unconscious mind and proceeded to make it the sole subject of his studies...