Example sentences for: paradoxical

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

  • His talent for disgust and mockery was saved by a paradoxical gift for praise.

  • That's the rub, and that's why I'm not a fan: Pynchon is a writer you have to "get," and I find no activity less inspiring than Rubik's Cube-ing through a clue-strewn supertext in search of a paradoxical Eureka!

  • While neither the US nor the UK has yet to legislate a remedy for this prima facie paradoxical state of affairs, both appear ready to address the issue systematically, and—more significantly—with the input of a wide range of affected constituents: scientists, publishers, librarians, patient advocates, text-miners, entrepreneurs, and more.

  • This paradoxical persona serves him gorgeously in Rounders , a snappy and ingratiating gambling picture in which Damon plays a character who fleeces "suckers" in poker games yet has a fundamental rectitude.

  • A few patients will experience a paradoxical reaction to benzodiazepines, and their anxiety will get worse.


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