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paradoxical

pe ruh dok si kuhl

  • s  seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
    it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking

  • The simultaneous applause and admonition reflect the paradoxical role of the European Commission.
  • The answer is that paradoxical land of six republics, five nationalities, four faiths, three languages and two alphabetsYugoslavia.
  • More paradoxical is that the humanity that worships Che has by and large turned away from just about everything he believed in.
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  • Jennifer Granholm in Forbes
    You were a paradoxical gift of remarkable intellect and achievement wrapped in a plain brown wrapper,said Granholm, a Democrat.
  • John F Kennedy in Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
    It's as true today as it was in 1962 when President Kennedy said, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenue in the long run is to cut the rates now ...... cutting...
  • Marc Jacobs in Forbes
    We played a lot with high-end fabrics and then kind of stranger techniques on expensive fabrics, such as some things that looked like synthetics,Jacobs told reporters. "It was quite paradoxical and ironical to make something that is so...

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