0 in a way that seems impossible or difficult to understand because of containing two opposite facts or characteristics:
As the epidemic ravaged the community, it paradoxically strengthened it.
She suddenly finds herself in a paradoxically weaker position.
Paradoxically, the best chance farmers have of seeing grain prices rise would be a year where bad weather produced a small crop.
The period saw the radical separation of micro- and macro-economics (a separation denoted, paradoxically, as a 'neoclassical synthesis').
The actor was performing a 'holding back' or a 'keeping back' that was, paradoxically ('despite himself') propelling him forward.
Paradoxically, for all the precision of its organisation, the piece gives the impression of being free and spontaneous, almost improvisatory.
We are thus, it is argued, entering a ' new ' or, somewhat paradoxically, 'post ' generational field.
Paradoxically, this might be taken to prove the point which she is attacking : that the early modern translations are unreliable.