Sentences with phrase «built on contradiction»

In short, much of American economic life is built on a contradiction.»

While education reformers continue to present a coalition built on contradiction, those who oppose their agenda have yet to build a strong coalition of their own.

Not exact matches

They also represent the perfect paradox of an age built on so many fundamental contradictions.

One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they they base their beliefs on.

One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they base their beliefs on.

Before answering Tommaso Maria Gras» argument, I have to admit that I am thrown off by the phrase «the gnostic dream of building paradise on earth,» which is about as total a contradiction in terms as one could imagine.

Most things I enjoy and like to do depend on who I am with, time, mood... and like everyone else, I am built of contradictions too.

For those that are a part of «Generation Rent,» there is a major contradiction built into the system: you show great financial responsibility and consistency by paying your rent on time each month, but receive no credit benefit for doing so.

Jobs can take hours to complete, and this is et another way Bravely Default plays on the overall theme of contradiction: should you put the game into Sleep Mode to build up some Sleep Points, or should you watch your village blossom while you complete another quests in the main game?

Sonic is broken down, decontextualized, and the mascot is stripped bare of its pretentions, revealing the absurdity and contradiction of the founding ideas that Sonic was built on, the ideas that people like Yuji Naka glorify.

Installed seven - across - from - five on two facing walls in the expansive industrial building in Boyle Heights in which they were made (a 100 percent perfect situation), the paintings establish surprising connections between each other — and also between us and them — by combining sophistication with silliness and agility with stubbornness, all without enabling their contradictions to dismantle their overall cohesion.

Thriving on the tension built from internal oppositions, the resulting set of contradictions speaks to the human condition.