It is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think the term paradoxical is more appropriate than impossible for obvious reasons, but intriguing stuff no less. From Wordnik.com. [Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com] Reference
The meaning of the word paradoxical may indeed be made the subject of argument. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
Medicare reform is desperately needed - it incentivizes doctors in paradoxical ways that are deleterious to patient care. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care at Last] Reference
The facile assumption of superiority recalled a paradoxical remark that. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
The number of slaves in Upper Canada was also diminished by what seems at first sight paradoxical, that is, their flight across the Detroit. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Why is it called paradoxical relaxation?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Edlund, M.D.: A Different Way to Rest: The UnNap Nap] Reference
That's kind of paradoxical; it's not the mainstream wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2009] Reference
There is a kind of paradoxical situation in which Canada finds itself in. From Wordnik.com. [2008 February 04 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
It’s called paradoxical intervention, or “prescribing the symptom.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Ten Minutes] Reference
Something like what happens on the cortex of Dog during the "paradoxical" phase. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Now it's easy to hear the same kind of paradoxical descriptions of Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Fury] Reference
Interface magazine takes a look at 37signals '"paradoxical" approach to business. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0] Reference
That fact of physics of the subatomic 4D world is of the same kind of paradoxical reality. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews] Reference
Frank Graves, president of the polling company, said there was a "paradoxical" quality to the poll's findings. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
Mr Giusto called the trial "paradoxical" and accused the Italian legal system of "incredible harassment of honest people". From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
The judge said it was "paradoxical" that M might increase his chance of release by spending more time in closed conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Press Gazette Latest News] Reference
Tasks in Haley’s second category, the so-called paradoxical task, have been a subject of considerable fascination for many clinicians. From Wordnik.com. [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference
A kind which van Helmont, when he first observed it, could not help describing as 'paradoxical'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"coincidence of opposites" (in Dennis McCort's parlance), the kind of paradoxical truth embraced by. From Wordnik.com. [Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature] Reference
The precariousness of Israel's position is paradoxical. From Wordnik.com. [What We Can Do] Reference
Bloomberg is in a paradoxical position on this question. From Wordnik.com. [Betting On A Billionaire] Reference
This paradoxical wisdom is the sad gift of September 11. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
But the end of the Cold War produced a paradoxical result. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nuclear Nightmare] Reference
The paradoxical thing about today's economy is its strength. From Wordnik.com. [You Call this a Depression?] Reference
The public attitude to the latest disclosures is, of course, paradoxical. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
It's a paradoxical region, and you can't compare one country to the next. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Ourselves Into Recession] Reference
"The Perfect Storm" is impersonal Hollywood filmmaking at its most paradoxical. From Wordnik.com. [Much Storm, Little Drang] Reference
Thus as seen by the rest of the world, 9-11 had a distressingly paradoxical effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrogant Empire] Reference
Perhaps the best interpretation is that the inquiries are a paradoxical symbol of success. From Wordnik.com. [Persecution Or Prosecution?] Reference
Introducing haute Americana, one of the most powerful — and paradoxical — forces in men's sportswear. From Wordnik.com. [Authentic Americana] Reference
In many ways, Obama and Tomlin share a similar, almost paradoxical, outlook: they are pathbreaking traditionalists. From Wordnik.com. [The President and the Coach] Reference
How paradoxical that religious claims to historical places can be the source of jeopardy to peace in the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Jerusalem Is It, Anyway?] Reference
Cronenberg has a millennial vision of a transformed sexuality that bears the paradoxical possibilities of death and love. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss Kiss--Kaboom!] Reference
The paradoxical Malick is a shoot-from-the-hip perfectionist who may be temperamentally incapable of making perfect movies. From Wordnik.com. [Two Cultures Clash, And Two Lovers Leap] Reference
An editorialist for Le Monde expressed the paradoxical formula: "The balance of terror is more and more the foundation of peace.". From Wordnik.com. [The '50S] Reference
The paradoxical effect of militarizing the border has not been to lower the rate of entry, but to reduce the likelihood of return. From Wordnik.com. [AN EXERCISE IN SELF-DECEPTION] Reference
He had a best seller -- "America (The Book)" -- and both college kids and political insiders found him a paradoxical voice of sanity. From Wordnik.com. [WHO'S NEXT: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?] Reference
I know that sounds paradoxical, but I think that's been the consequence of zero-tolerance policies almost wherever they've been adopted. From Wordnik.com. ['This Issue Is Going To Be With Us For A Long Time'] Reference
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