paradoxical
US /ˌpærə'dɒksɪkl/
・UK /ˌpærə'dɒksɪkl/
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adj.AdjectiveSeemingly contradictory but possibly true
It is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking
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The Life Changing Effect of Small Talk With Strangers
- doesn’t sound too paradoxical - love a stranger. And, even more oddly, for only a minute or two.
doesn’t sound too paradoxical - love a stranger. And, even more oddly, for only a minute or two.
The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love
- The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme. Why would anyone take steps to deny themselves an experience which seems so plainly positive and life-enhancing? Plenty of people are denied love by external forces. Why would anyone take active measures to sabotage love if it lay before them? The answer can only be found by looking back in time. Though we all crave love in theory, our capacity to accept it in practice is critically dependent on the quality of our early emotional experiences. To abbreviate sharply, we can only willingly tolerate being loved if, as children, the process of loving and being loved felt sufficiently reliable, safe and kind. Some of us were not so blessed. Some of us were stymied in our search for love in ways we have not yet recovered from or fully understood. Perhaps the person we wanted to love fell ill or grew depressed. Or at the height of our dependence on them, they went away or had a new family or turned their attention to a younger sibling.
The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme. Why would anyone take steps to deny themselves an experience which seems so plainly positive and life-enhancing? Plenty of people are denied love by external forces. Why would anyone take active measures to sabotage love if it lay before them? The answer can only be found by looking back in time. Though we all crave love in theory, our capacity to accept it in practice is critically dependent on the quality of our early emotional experiences. To abbreviate sharply, we can only willingly tolerate being loved if, as children, the process of loving and being loved felt sufficiently reliable, safe and kind. Some of us were not so blessed. Some of us were stymied in our search for love in ways we have not yet recovered from or fully understood. Perhaps the person we wanted to love fell ill or grew depressed. Or at the height of our dependence on them, they went away or had a new family or turned their attention to a younger sibling.
- The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme.
The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme.
Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
- Nietzsche was a devastating critic of, I would say, dogmatic Christianity, Christianity as it was instantiated in institutions, I suppose, although he's a very paradoxical thinker because, for example, one of the things Nietzsche said was that he didn't believe that the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground if it hadn't been for Christianity and more specifically for Catholicism because he believed that over the course of really a thousand years, the European mind, so to speak, had to train itself to interpret everything that was known within a single coherent framework, coherent if you accept the initial axioms, a single coherent framework.
Nietzsche was a devastating critic of, I would say, dogmatic Christianity, Christianity as it was instantiated in institutions, I suppose, although he's a very paradoxical thinker because, for example, one of the things Nietzsche said was that he didn't believe that the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground if it hadn't been for Christianity and more specifically for Catholicism because he believed that over the course of really a thousand years, the European mind, so to speak, had to train itself to interpret everything that was known within a single coherent framework, coherent if you accept the initial axioms, a single coherent framework.
- I suppose... although he's a very paradoxical thinker.
I suppose... although he's a very paradoxical thinker.
Why Spain’s Economy Is Booming
- The paradoxical thing that we see in Spain is that despite this growth, people are actually not very happy and we see very fragmented politics.
The paradoxical thing that we see in Spain is that despite this growth, people are actually not very happy and we see very fragmented politics.
- The paradoxical thing that we see in Spain is that despite this growth, people are actually not very happy,
The paradoxical thing that we see in Spain is that despite this growth, people are actually not very happy,
Why You're Failing & What To Do About It
- It may sound paradoxical; however, it actually makes a lot of sense when you peel back the curtain.
It may sound paradoxical; however, it actually makes a lot of sense when you peel back the curtain.
Part 2 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 03-04)
- It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "That sounds a little paradoxical." "But it is profoundly true.
It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "That sounds a little paradoxical." "But it is profoundly true.
- difficult." "That sounds a little paradoxical."
difficult." "That sounds a little paradoxical."
公正 该如何做是好 第四集 我的地盘我做主 满合法年龄的成年人
- reason, which is that law, teaches mankind who will but consult it that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." This leads to a puzzling, paradoxical feature of Locke's account of rights, familiar in one sense but strange in another.
reason, which is that law, teaches mankind who will but consult it that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." This leads to a puzzling, paradoxical feature of Locke's account of rights, familiar in one sense but strange in another.
- This leads to a puzzling paradoxical feature of Locke's
This leads to a puzzling paradoxical feature of Locke's
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream - Crash Course Psychology #9
- REM sleep is kinda paradoxical.
REM sleep is kinda paradoxical.
- REM sleep is kinda paradoxical. Your motor cortex is jumping all over the place, but
REM sleep is kinda paradoxical. Your motor cortex is jumping all over the place, but
Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Crash Course English Lit #8
- So Joyce Gayrlow was once called Emily Dickinson the most paradoxical of poets, the very poet of paradox.
So Joyce Gayrlow was once called Emily Dickinson the most paradoxical of poets, the very poet of paradox.
- Dickinson “the most paradoxical of poets; the very poet of paradox.”
Dickinson “the most paradoxical of poets; the very poet of paradox.”
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 04: "THIS LAND IS MY LAND"
- reason, which is that law, teaches mankind who will but consult it that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." This leads to a puzzling, paradoxical feature of Locke's account of rights, familiar in one sense but strange in another.
reason, which is that law, teaches mankind who will but consult it that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." This leads to a puzzling, paradoxical feature of Locke's account of rights, familiar in one sense but strange in another.
- to a puzzling paradoxical
to a puzzling paradoxical