Sentences with phrase «irreconcilable contradictions in»
When at last it became fashionable to admit that there are irreconcilable contradictions in the four versions of the empty tomb story, this fact was used by many as a popular argument in favor of their essential reliability.
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He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»
It means, fundamentally, to be trapped in a strange hinterland of blurred expectations and irreconcilable contradictions.
That's to say the movie's thematic concerns exist as an irreconcilable contradiction: People have made themselves sick in the pursuit of what they consider achievement, but if you go looking for the cure to that illness, it's going to be worse than the disease.