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From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.
The term "peaceful democracy" is almost a contradiction in terms.
(A short, sharp, high note, with a hint of contradiction: You never know, it could; we'll see who's right.)
But he saw no contradiction between measures aimed at fighting poverty in general and others that accorded blacks "special treatment" because of the unique injustices they had suffered.
But, more significantly, we have to recognize that we are locked in ongoing contradiction between the values of our first and our second constitutions.