Paradoxical

I think the term paradoxical is more appropriate than impossible for obvious reasons, but intriguing stuff no less. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Medicare reform is desperately needed - it incentivizes doctors in paradoxical ways that are deleterious to patient care. ❋ Grrm (2010)

I now turn to Tibetan Buddhism's account of so-called "nothingness," a concept (or non-concept?) only visible to Hegel in paradoxical and oxymoronic terms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The parallels are the same the cruelty, the violence and the absurdity are common to all, likewise the painful compassion and feeling that the author expresses in paradoxical contrast to the fascination that these phenomena obviously have for him. ❋ Unknown (1985)

The violence and the absurdity are common to all, likewise the painful compassion and feeling that the author expresses in paradoxical contrast to the fascination that these phenomena obviously have for him. ❋ Unknown (1985)

The meaning of the word paradoxical may indeed be made the subject of argument. ❋ Unknown (1905)

At the inception of a renaissance for the forests and oceans, the atmosphere and surviving species, we human beings need again to listen and to see relationally, to learn anew what some refer to as paradoxical thinking and study in the ways of what others call an emotional philosophy for dwelling poetically with the Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What’s truly paradoxical is that many commandments insist that you execute them in the most natural, authentic, and committed way possible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problematical nature of Israel's Jewish culture can be identified as the paradoxical attempt to restore Jews to the world of nations, but to do so by an occult process that remains alien to universal civilization and the standards of science and rationality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is also the founder of a treatment modality which is referred to as paradoxical intention, which is usually used in treatment of simple neurosis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In medicine, worsening effects of the use of these medications is know as paradoxical, and those of us who have autistic children know this issue all to well. ❋ GreenFertility (2009)

Recall his paradoxical assertion, quoted above, of the identity of happiness and suffering, the latter somehow, mysteriously, "unverändert und nur befreit von seinem Gegensatz" [ "unchanged and merely liberated from its opposite"]. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is a story we've been following for some time, talking about these antidepressants and what is known as a paradoxical, or almost opposite effect of what you would expect from actually using them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A child may even have a so-called paradoxical response to the medication, becoming “hyper” and unable to sit still or sleep. ❋ M.D. Richard Ferber (2006)

We had scarce inhaled -- or, rather, _insuded_, to coin a paradoxical word for a sensation which seems to enter at every pore -- the profound quiet and its suggestive fancies for the space of half an hour, when the wind fell at the going down of the sun, and the humming mist of mosquitoes arose again. ❋ Various (N/A)

The number of slaves in Upper Canada was also diminished by what seems at first sight paradoxical, that is, their flight across the Detroit ❋ Various (N/A)

-- Should this expression seem at first paradoxical, that is chiefly because, as a general rule, a too restricted meaning is given to the word "expression." ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)