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paradoxical English

Meaning paradoxical meaning

What does paradoxical mean?

paradoxical

seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking

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Simple sentences

Many paradoxes are paradoxical only because they sound strange.
We are confronted with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the substantial hindrances to intelligence and freedom of thought.
To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Movie subtitles

You're denying Joanna the right to be her own paradoxical self.
And even if it seems paradoxical to you. if anyone should be afraid among us, it's you. from now on.
It's paradoxical.
Indeed it may seem paradoxical but since the advent of the beast, church attendance has tripled!
The thing was paradoxical. because what enabled him to perform this astounding feat. was his ability to transform himself.
It's cruel, paradoxical.. unpredictable but fair!
You're havin' what you call a paradoxical reaction.
It's all paradoxical.
Samurai are paradoxical.
I merely distorted the truth to fit the paradoxical reality of the situation.
And the paradoxical thing is underneath all of that.
It's paradoxical!
But that's paradoxical!
Yes, indeed, it's paradoxical.
It seems paradoxical to me that a nation with such ideals and such economic power still cannot fulfill or seems unwilling to fulfill basic human needs of food, clothing and shelter.
The thing was paradoxical, because what enabled him to perform this astounding feat was his ability to transform himself.
Yeah, it's paradoxical.
Perhaps you're experiencing a paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon.
I discovered a category of women and a category of men that are paradoxical : faggot women and lesbian men.
Paradoxical movement in the flail segment.
Now I can describe paradoxical situations impossible to express in any existing language.
In all his years, the judge had never before seen such a strange, paradoxical case.
Large brain fatigue influences the lengthening of this phase, know in the literature as the paradoxical phase.
And those concepts that previously seemed daring, utopian, or even paradoxical, now little by little are accepted and defended by all.
I wonder has it ever struck you strangely paradoxical in the end it was the smallest things that did us in, tiny little invisible particles we couldn't even see by the naked eye?
So cruel and so paradoxical.
Illness and sensuality were paradoxical partners. and love had made a firm pact with death.
Because on the one hand, this is a- this is an acutely paradoxical, puzzling. conceptually confusing theory.
Well, it's paradoxical.
Forget it, is already a situation paradoxical.
The results would likely be paradoxical.
And atropine has a paradoxical reaction as a tranquilizer used on fish and other animals.
Then came resounding confirmation of the Dirac equation and all its paradoxical implications and it came from the most unexpected place - outer space.

News and current affairs

Wouldn't it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?
The outcome was paradoxical, and not to the liking of those who initiated it: but the right of the communities to determine their future was accepted.
One of the paradoxical results of America's almost messianic belief in elections as a panacea for all the ills of the Middle East is that Hamas - the winner of democratic elections - has gained a degree of legitimacy that it never had before.
And yet few countries have a more paradoxical relationship than the US and Iran.
This seems paradoxical, because interest rates are close to zero in most advanced economies.
This explanation may seem even more paradoxical than the first, but the logic is straightforward: Governments often try to escape the hard task of improving economic efficiency through supply-side reforms and rely on demand-side fixes instead.
Nevertheless, there is something paradoxical about this.
This is the paradoxical result of the policy response to the financial crisis.
The answer is likely to be as paradoxical as Italian politics: temporarily definitive.
In a world searching for providential leaders, the case of Ariel Sharon is both symbolic and paradoxical, for this universal man remains one of the most controversial figures of recent decades.
The result of credit compulsion was rather paradoxical.
While Iraq - an attempt to import democracy by force - is failing, the paradoxical conditions of an Arab democracy under Israeli occupation may be a threat that Arab rulers have not yet comprehended.
Europe finds itself at a paradoxical turning point.
What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals: the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal.
No one can predict whether the SNP might end up in the paradoxical position of joining a coalition with Labour to govern a country that it was campaigning to leave in last September's independence referendum.
Relations between China and Latin America and the Caribbean are paradoxical.
What these paradoxical interpretations have in common is that they abandon realism, the doctrine that a physical world, existing in reality, accounts for all of our experience.
This situation is paradoxical, as Europe is experiencing one of the worst economic crises in its history, with falling employment and living standards and rising worries about the future.
But the debate is now being distorted by a secondary struggle between the EU's large and small countries, with results that are sometimes paradoxical.
This re-balancing between the large and small member states is shifting some old assumptions in a number of paradoxical ways.
The result is, of course, paradoxical: private funds that flow into these countries are recycled into US Treasury securities via investment of accumulated reserves.
Still, the question is an open one, owing to Lee Kuan Yew's somewhat paradoxical sensitivity to the prominence of his family members in some of the country's most senior posts.
France is a marvelously paradoxical country, so the search for novelty, if not modernity, could lead to the reinvention of the Fourth Republic, a parliamentary regime characterized by its weaknesses and instability.
The paradoxical finding here is that one great trick to being happy is to forget about being happy and instead try to increase the happiness of others.

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