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self-contradictory


  • s  seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
  • s  in disagreement

  • It's hard to know whether their self-justifying and self-contradictory nonsense bothers actual voters, or just the reporters who have it force-fed to them.
  • Such self-contradictory statements reflect the tortured attempts to reconcile morality with the hard facts of history.
  • Louis Theroux: My ideal subject matter is basically people who have an unusual degree of commitment to something which on the face of it is ludicrous, self-contradictory, or strange.
News & Articles

  • FT Joins The Fray: "Fed Likely To Signal Tapering Move"
    It seems not only the entire developed world is sick and tired of Hilsenrath's "leaks" which have now become so grotesquely self-contradictory, not even Hilsenfollowers can make out the Hilsenfact from the Hilsenjoke. So it appears the Fed has now picked the FT as its interim pass through vehicle: Ben Bernanke is likely to signal that the US Federal Reserve is close to tapering down its $85bn-a ...
    June 17, 2013 - Zero Hedge
Quotes

  • Gideon Gono in Voice of America
    The last six months have seen a flood of interest in the economy from both friends and foes and we must not disturb the momentum by being reckless, inconsistent and self-contradictory with our pronouncements or with what we say or do,Gono...
  • Ben Brantley in Washington Post
    In yesterday's New York Times, chief critic Ben Brantley wrote that "the show and its characters are gawky, sincere, tentative, self-contradictory and given to home truths that are expounded on as if they were discoveries of new planets. This means...
  • Janet Napolitano in East Valley Tribune
    And 18,000 was going to take to the end of '08 to reach in any event, yet we're still recruiting from the same pool of people to go to Iraq,Napolitano said. "To me that is, that is self-contradictory. That is not good for Arizona. It's not...

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