How to Use paradoxical in a Sentence

paradoxical

adjective

• Jolie wanders through the frame with a paradoxical blend of imperious diva and lost little girl.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2024
• This may seem paradoxical, instances of Jewish do-gooders acting on behalf of others.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
• But of course, that’s not paradoxical at all, just not what we’re used to.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• The state of being that guy, at the least the public version of him, is a paradoxical one.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• All of which makes Mnuchin one of the most unusual — and paradoxical — figures of the Trump era.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• Where Mr Bregman grates is in his claim to be the first to wrestle with deep, paradoxical truths about mankind.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• The letter had had the paradoxical effect of distracting from the plight of Gazans.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Hoadley took on the task of putting all the pieces of the puzzle together to explain this paradoxical object.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2020
• The year grinding to a close was a paradoxical one for cinema.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• This paradoxical result has to do with the fact that rising rates do more than depress bond prices.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The idea behind the blood test is somewhat paradoxical: If blood amyloid levels are very low, the patient may well have plaques in the brain.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Hendrix seems to me to come from the future—from some other plane—and also in a paradoxical way from the past, too, like Bob Dylan.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Those dual investments, the human and the state, hang in paradoxical tension, and that paradox is the core of Kadare.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 10 Jan. 2018
• The video portrays the paradoxical feeling of the mind running at high speed amid the solitude of stay-at-home pandemic life.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Yes, flip-flops can—while paradoxical to some—be refined.
  — Ashley W. Simpson, Robb Report, 2 May 2023
• That’s one of the paradoxical elements of Black women in food.
  — Korsha Wilson, Saveur, 3 Jan. 2024
• Such paradoxical feelings attached to the simple fact of mobility took me back in a rush to the 1970s New York of my youth.
  — Elizabeth Kendall, New York Times, 1 July 2020
• What does stick in my craw is the idea that the actual lottery is all that’s left, which, in a paradoxical way, is why My Lottery Dream Home is such a balm for the soul.
  — Angela Serratore, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2018
• There is nothing paradoxical about people on the upper tier of the working class playing a leading role in the left.
  — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• That’s not paradoxical; the greater amount of white matter doesn’t mean habitual liars are more inclined to stick to rules and morals.
  — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
• That might sound paradoxical, but such shapes might do better than a circle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2024
• That might sound paradoxical, but steak at a discount costs a lot more than hamburger meat.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 6 May 2024
• The paradoxical truth of the matter is that cities can also serve as vital habitat for some parrot species.
  — Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• This is linked to something sort of paradoxical: DDT was off-patent, and the large companies started to see it as a money loser.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
• Ex-slaves relished seeing these paradoxical uses of the old slave pens.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• That seems paradoxical when each year brings a new crop of exciting findings.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2024
• Few rock bands can claim to have brought an entire aesthetic to the mainstream, as The Cure did with their somewhat paradoxical video brand of brightly gloomy goth-pop.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2020
• Writing in the late 1930s, Steinbeck too observed the impact of hunger on the working class, and how the paradoxical waste of food destruction would enrage those on the brink of survival.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 28 May 2020
• Image What accounts for this paradoxical notion of both old and new?
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024