Sentences with phrase «kind of paradox»

Self deception is a kind of paradox, where the person knows one thing, but holds onto a competing and opposite belief more strongly than what the facts would tell another person.

Still, reconsidering the earlier movies presents a kind of paradox: The Fast and the Furious works better as the first installment of a long - running, gasoline - soaked soap opera, but judging it as such at the time would have been premature, not to mention overly generous.

Yes, this is kind of paradox to see two different fabrics paired together, but it does look awesome.

«We live in kind of a paradox,» Copelli says.

«We live in kind of a paradox.

But this is the kind of paradox that comic artists, rather than philosophers, handle best.

A sense for this kind of paradox is what is really splendid about McDougall as a historian.

That's kind of a paradox of business, I think.»

Not exact matches

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

Crowe's documentary shows the paradox of wanting big fame while wanting to keep it real to the emotional / music basis of what makes the music in any way compelling, let alone compelling in terms of the fans who like this kind of music.

It was rather because the choosing of such a bishop — by the - Republican - Party - at - prayer - church of George Bush and Sandra Day O'Connor — conveyed the kind of lovely, unexpected contradiction that christians love to call «paradox.»

The paradox of creativity can be seen in a peculiar character of the kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition of human endeavor.

The kind of inquiry that leads to the paradox of creativity springs from the question: What source makes creativity possible?

Can Christian love be divided into two kinds of love held together only in the tenuous bonds of paradox?

* shrugs *... I have a suspicion that god / dess / es don't exist, but, I'm kind of fond of the idea of a «one god» in a somewhat weird»em manent / transcendent» way (yah, I know, they don't really go together, but that is kind of what I ses as... miraculous... in my little paradigm) that is not personal, but is intimate (I know, I know, another paradox)... and that most religions are some attempt at people trying to get their head around expressing that «one god»...

Gleick is concerned with the paradox that within this relatively new chaos, so upsetting to the order that physicists, astronomers, and biologists had learned to expect, the computer makes it possible to discover a new kind of order.

One might conclude that the temporal epoch is merely a kind of neat little black box for tucking away the ultimate paradoxes of freedom and causality.

When I say that the answer to the immigrant and Hispanic paradoxes may have been «hiding in plain sight all along,» I am referring to the kind of information in the national health survey.

And this is the kind of thing that Martin would point out in his columns, that you know, there is a profound link between what seem to be maybe light - hearted or paradoxes and extremely deep things, things that are at the very core of all of human existence or all of life for that matter.

I certainly remember the anecdote and very typical of; as you say it's not a Martin story but it's the kind of story that Martin favored, and as you point out very well this is a perfect example of a paradox.

A thought experiment involving a paradox of pigeons shows a new kind of quantum link that could be happening everywhere in the cosmos, all the time

If you are what you eat, this kind of sums up what makes me a paradox.

It's kind of odd to watch characters on TV watching TV, but said paradox can lead to excellent portions of entertainment.

Casting attractive young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern wave of eroticized young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.

And since right - leaning voters tend to eschew governmental programs that would help prevent pollution — of the kind that has cost these Louisianans their homes, jobs, health and family members — she saw a nearly unfathomable paradox.

And yes, I recognize the paradox: the bookstores are already happy to sell this kind of fraud, so why can't online authors engage in the same sort of duplicity?

That paradox refers to the fact that shoppers are less likely to make a purchase if they are presented with too many options; for example, when offered 24 kinds of jam, shoppers in one study only purchased jam 3 percent of the time.

It's like some kind of logical paradox.

Similarly, Flower (1999) is a kind of wry sculptural paradox: four white Styrofoam blocks with absurdly chunky proportions, with one leaning against a white plinth in what barely recalls that cliché embodiment of beauty and frailty.

Though presented without comment, the photo is a winking nod to Hammons's reputation as a kind of art - world sorcerer and also to his own anthropological interests: For five decades he has deployed conceptual jokes and everyday materials to reflect on the paradoxes and complexities of African American life.

But I think one of the things that's kind of an interesting paradox is that, even if that's the case, paintings don't move, in a way.

But the paradox, and the tragedy, is that the Climate Summit will not have the cessation of massive world - wide geoengineering as one of it's paramount objectives, but will instead dilly - dally endlessly with how to coordinate international carbon reductions with the stated goal of a signed agreement, while «mitigation» strategies of every conceivable kind will be on the table.

It's an interesting paradox: people who aren't yet alive have some kind of rights in the present, whereas people in the present who speak in public about the daftness of giving non-existent people rights in the present deserve to be put to death.

@Donald Oats zeno's paradox kind of argument — one can always say «not now, wait and see» but following Hillel — «if not now, when?»

That kind of portal could be useful, but it's only one very small solution to the transparency paradox.

There are very simple ways to resolve this kind of belief paradox.