Sentences with phrase «contradictory positions»

It makes wild claims, uses unfounded facts and takes contradictory positions.

Fascinated by domestic readymades and also by pure color, passionately committed to painting and intelligently irreverent towards its pretensions, equally ready to uphold the legacy of Malevich and Barnett Newman (his two greatest influences) and to pursue what he has called «humiliated abstraction,» Dolla presents us with a bouillabaisse of seemingly contradictory positions.

As soon as you start picking and choosing you can make the Bible say what ever you want because it takes contradictory positions depending on where you are reading.

At the same time, he has spoken directly about the dangers of climate change and the need to take action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while Governor Romney has staked out contradictory positions over the years on the causes and appropriate response to climate change and other environmental challenges.

Politics have also forced New York governor George Pataki into taking contradictory positions at times regarding schools and money.

Sometimes contradictory positions like this are a cynical fudge, a desperate obfuscation borne of political necessity.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases contradictory positions, «Trigger» assembles a diverse group of artists (from rising L.A photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya to breakout Connecticut star Tschabalala Self) for their shared desire to contest repressive orders and to create new aesthetics — beyond the binary.

Because many artworks embody contradictory positions, articulating them as seemingly insurmountable polarities can be an unnecessary task, but it is one readily tackled by the authors of gallery press releases and museum wall labels.

Steve, the connection between the NYT Wikileaks rationalization and the UEA slalom around its various mutually contradictory positions regarding IER and FOIA obligations is a good catch.

The complex legal issues presented typically exist as a result of the misconduct, or mental impairments of one or both parents, whose intractable contradictory positions operate in direct opposition to the best interests of their children which makes a recommendation as to which living arrangement with these parents is in the child's «best interest» an almost impossible task.

«The heated, sometimes angry, debate over the proposal to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has New York State voters twisted in knots, with some of them taking contradictory positions depending on how the question is asked,» said Q pollster Mickey Carroll.

Bergson's insistence on this radical continuity of time leads him to startling and seemingly contradictory positions.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases presenting productively contradictory positions, «Trigger» will assemble artists for their singular efforts in considering gender's capacity to represent a more general refusal of stable categorization — a refusal at the heart of today's most compelling artistic practices.

In September 2014, Obama quietly signed a one - year extension of the embargo — giving comedian John Oliver occasion to blast the president's contradictory positions on Cuba, during a segment on Oliver's HBO show Last Week Tonight.

«The heated, sometimes angry, debate over the proposal to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has New York State voters twisted in knots, with some of them taking contradictory positions depending on how the question is asked,» said Quinnipiac University Polling Institute director, Maurice Carroll, commented in a statement.

Ben Thompson at Stratechery carefully analyzes the technical and political fallout from this week's congressional hearings, and his opinion is that the tech giants are caught between two contradictory positions: that they are powerful enough to cause seismic shifts in the advertising market and provide unprecedented insights about their audiences to marketers; and also that they are innocent bystanders in the whole affair who were ignorant of what was transpiring on their platforms:

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

Read into it how you want, and you can justify a whole host of contradictory positions.

The Tea Party faithful force GOP candidates into ever more ridiculously extreme, and often self - contradictory positions that make it impossible for that candidate to win a general election.

This prevents the contradictory position of holding that the exception clause references adultery, but limiting it to physical adultery and not adultery of the heart.

To reduce humans in their physical sexual activity to the level of the barnyard is surely wrong, and it is odd that those who ban contraception (save for the «rhythm» method) are, in fact, making just that reduction, certainly with good intentions, but thereby involving themselves in a strangely self - contradictory position.

No one with whom I spoke could reconcile Auer's two contradictory positions; they may be symbolic of the conflict of emotions generated in a circumstance like this.

But the style and pace of the work they do as artisans (their «work process,» a central category in Marxist analysis) is still largely in their own hands, which is not the case for factory workers, For Gramsci, this contradictory position of intellectuals has both advantages and disadvantages.

Even before Celtic or Brighton could issue any official communication confirming or denying these stories, senior journalists of both, Sky and BBC had already sent out tweets taking contradictory positions and leaving fans divided.

Again, these are contradictory positions.

At other times, this sort of contradictory positioning is an opportunist solution designed to create mayhem among one's political enemies.

The UK has dropped itself into a contradictory position in which it has seemingly accepted the rule of the ECJ to govern patents, despite May's previous assertions that the country would be completely removed from its jurisdiction.

They said the mayor was taking «contradictory positions» by targeting the tribes while at the same time expressing support for constitutional protections of those looking to build a controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Shelly wanted his tag on DiNapoli's statement even knowing astute reporters — like Liz Benjamin — would immediately call DiNapoli on the seemingly contradictory positions.

«Allegations of political bias, whether justified or not, are almost inevitable given the attorney general's seemingly contradictory positions,» today's report by the Constitutional Affairs Committee said.

Then it instantly chooses one of the two contradictory positions.

Second, driving your right hip deep into the socket, as it's often advised, puts your pelvis into a contradictory position.

My profession as a second grade public school teacher places me in a contradictory position three times each year when I am mandated to proctor the MAP test for my young students.

ROBERT BECK»S RECENT EXHIBITION, «dust» — organized by the Wexner's Bill Horrigan — seemingly affirmed two contradictory positions: On the one hand, each piece in the show required the discipline of psychology as the methodological basis of its interpretation...

The building of the cardboard model began from a position of uneasy nostalgia for his white, middle - class South African upbringing and ended in the contradictory position of a social critique of the residual effects of apartheid.

In more than one place» takes up contradictory positions: as a refrain — in a musical sense, as well as to limit (set a boundary) and scold; or, as an insistence on immediacy and presence.

But just as a contradictory position.»

This recursive stance occupies two contradictory positions: one, painting's acknowledgment of its own history and emotional meaning and two, the impossibility that painting can be unselfconsciously meaningful in a contemporary context.