Example sentences for: contradictions

How can you use “contradictions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A poem, says historicist criticism, will always be riven by the historical contradictions that surround it.

  • One complaint: Dearborn "prefers to get Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story" instead of exploring the meanings behind them, and she "likes to knock the stuffing out of [Mailer] when she finds him too upholstered" (Caleb Crain, the New York Times Book Review ). (The New York Times ' "featured author" section on Mailer offers an archive of reviews and profiles from the paper.)

  • These little contradictions aside, one wonders why stodgy Caucasian Republicans are playing the victimology card at all.

  • A man characterized by envy and cynicism, superficial wit and subterranean rage, ceaseless introspection and emotional detachment, insufferable smugness and barely concealed self-loathing, Jack is a bundle of apparent contradictions.

  • ) and conveying all his ambiguities and contradictions simultaneously.


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