Sentences with phrase «flat contradiction»

This point of view is not compatible with the Jewish way of understanding human existence, and it is in flat contradiction to what we now know about ourselves as human.

In flat contradiction of their stated views that climate change represents an imminent cata - strophic threat, anti-nuclear environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a nuclear power plant.

Obviously this was in flat contradiction to the ideal of higher education.

There could hardly be a flatter contradiction.

Now if «eternal» used in this quotation meant «not temporal,» the expression «eternal event» would be not merely paradoxical but a flat contradiction of terms like «round square,» because events are necessarily temporal.

Sometimes the two are in flat contradiction, sometimes in a sort of agreement; but at others, as in the Agnus Dei coupled with Owen's «One ever hangs where shell'd roads part», they are wonderfully together.

For Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creation.

They are likely to find that the Buddhist account is different from what they have learned in their tradition, but that it is not a matter of flat contradiction.

Is there here a flat contradiction which no amount of ingenuity can harmonize?

«In flat contradiction to Paul, the Gospels (when they discuss the process of resurrection at all) strongly present a physical, fleshly notion of Jesus» bodily resurrection.»

It may sound joyless, if not a flat contradiction in terms.

«What I found most indicative of industry influence were the reason given by Jeremy Browne for the policy switch, in flat contradiction to what have been stated previously,» said Jim McCambridge from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine