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oxymoron Not a name for dumb cattle, but a rhetorical device that couples opposites into descriptions effective for their irony: cold as hell, honest as a politician.
For many commentators, a book about the future of the U.S. apparel and textile industries is still an oxymoron.
Oxymoron is an oxymoron.
The cynical spin: As with last week's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and last year's bombing of a Sudanese chemical plant that was evidently mistaken for a chemical weapons facility, the ski lift disaster (attributed in part to government maps that failed to show the ski lift) proves again that U.S. military intelligence is an oxymoron.