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"Paradox" in a Sentence (25 examples)
The paradox of sport is that it bonds as it divides.
More haste, less speed is a paradox.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
This dogma is rather a paradox.
This has been a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion declaration and although the very heavens echo to the reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in our hearts. "Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me." We travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home.
And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity.
The "Privacy Paradox" is the contradiction between how important consumers claim their privacy is and how freely they disclose their personal information online.
This is the paradox.
You realize that when you replied "He’s right!" to his "You always lie," you’ve just created a paradox?
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"This sentence is false" is a paradox.
The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.
According to one version of an ancient paradox, an Athenian is supposed to say "I am a liar." It is then argued that if the statement is true, then he is telling the truth, and is therefore not a liar […]
It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully.
Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
How quaint the ways of Paradox! / At common sense she gaily mocks! / Though counting in the usual way years twenty-one I've been alive, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / Yet reck'ning by my natal day, / I am a little boy of five!
He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
You are a paradox of bitch and angel.
And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?
Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof.
they contended to make that Maxim, that there is no faith to be held with Infidels, a meere and absurd Paradox [...].
The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language.
Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.
Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription.
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