They fit the rough contrariness of our experience; they are at once contradictory and true. (firstthings.com)
Call it by any other name, original sin is accurate description for our universal human contrariness and psycho - genetic inwardness. (firstthings.com)
If they understood what was happening, one might credit them with a measure of courage, or at least with a piquant contrariness. (firstthings.com)