0 seeming impossible or difficult to understand because of containing two opposite facts or characteristics: --
In specular logic, aural contradicts spectacle, positioning itself as a paradoxical other.
At the end of the twentieth century, concern for food poverty is both paradoxical and rational.
Such paradoxical claim not so reveals the imperfection of our knowledge as much as the presence of some scientific misunderstandings and prejudices.
At a more general level, a feature common to both historical and present-day labour migration by children seems to be its paradoxical nature.
The view asserted in the text might seem to be paradoxical.
This placed individuals in a paradoxical position : they were vulnerable to exploitation, but protest or complaint risked undermining their position even further.
When viewed in the light of recent molecular studies and emerging paradigms of tumour histogenesis and progression, this baffling class of tumours seems less paradoxical.
Interestingly, as the essays in this collection chronicle, the backpacker's putative desire to distance oneself from the nation-state has had, perhaps, paradoxical effects.