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How to use the word paradoxical in a Sentence?

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However paradoxical it sounds I feel more like me when I play a role.

– Lars Eidinger

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's paradoxical that after Brexit, Europe's banking authorities are effectively helping destabilize the market by opposing Italy's attempt to strengthen the financial system and safeguard its customers.

– Bruno Valentini

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Right now we are in a situation that is both delicate and paradoxical.

– De Watteville

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When one has ended up in a frustrating situation, trapped by paradoxical rules and lost in unsolvable logic puzzles, time comes to break free from a corporeal prison and head for new horizons. ( "Corporeal prison" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I call it paradoxical, to put it gently, that the pope said that, when he lives behind walls that are about 40 feet high and 40 feet across, that comment hurt his credibility with my parishioners.

– William Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It seems a little paradoxical, but this is tied directly to the strong rise in the salmon price at the international level.

– Jorge Opaso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

– Arnold J. Toynbee

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

– Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

– T. S. Eliot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

– Kedar Joshi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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