Sentences with word «oxymoronic»

You're quoting a guy who makes such oxymoronic statements.
At the risk of sounding oxymoronic, we're proud to bring our fans the newest, most exciting old school CRPG throwback yet!»
At first glance both these qualities may seem oxymoronic as watertight defense in itself in the hands of nearly every coach sounds death knell for innovative football.
I love a third - party verified list, but with green airline itself nudging to the top of the most oxymoronic phrase list I decided to take a look at how Greenopia actually measures the viriditÄ s of our domestic airlines.
The artist has wryly discussed his private, staged happenings in oxymoronic terms, calling them «minor spectacles.»
Those who have pre-ordered Alienware's foray into the almost oxymoronic realm of «living room PC gaming» now have something to look forward to in the coming days.
Why don't you spend as much researching multi-megawatt-hour lithium batteries for centralized storage of energy from distributed collectors as you do on oxymoronic «clean coal» combustion?
The so - called «Oracle of Omaha» has repeatedly poured contempt on the crypto industry, claiming with oxymoronic «almost certainty» that cryptocurrencies «will come to a bad end,» in an interview this January, all the while admitting that cryptocurrencies are «something I don't know anything about.»
No one would call him an «impossibly oxymoronic creature: the secretly incompetent basketball champion.»
Maintaining the old vocabulary forces her to contort her language, describing herself as an «impossibly oxymoronic creature: the Public Introvert.»
The Vic - Maui's motto is «Challenge - Adventure - Teamwork», which might be a tad oxymoronic if it applied to law firm partnerships and British Columbia politics.
We talked about her assignment and I lamely offered her the idea of an invisible bridge as one oxymoronic expression of hope.
It is oxymoronic at best for a Baptist to write about the observance of Ash Wednesday.
Christianity is the most oxymoronic of all religions in that it is centered on the deus - homo, the one described in the Definition of Chalcedon as «truly God and truly man.»
It's a great investment, I have to admit, as long as it's great, it's going to be great if that isn't too oxymoronic for you.
If you want to see the entire cover (a rather oxymoronic term considering the context) you can go here.
With knowledge management, however, I have often wondered if it is perhaps time to describe knowledge management in better terms (particularly since it seems slightly oxymoronic to think about «managing» knowledge — can you manage knowledge?).
A faith based on certainty is not only oxymoronic but also leads to arrogance, especially from those who wield religious authority.
Let me try something oxymoronic: «Porsches are way over-priced but worth it».
Before you laugh yourself to tears, on a recent drive Toyota proved that less oxymoronic than it sounds... but maybe still not the best idea.
But to me that's a bit oxymoronic.
But isn't there something intrinsically oxymoronic about the idea of ethical fashion?
Thereafter, Burt Rutan belonged to a rare and oxymoronic breed: the celebrity engineer.
On the other hand, to a small but noisy band of ideologues who consider the whole premise of government intervention to preserve free enterprise oxymoronic, all this is hardly enough; they've intensified a campaign to shut down the SBA altogether.
Betabrand's oxymoronic sweatsuit - business apparel mashup somehow doesn't scream tacky.
And, of course, it'll be chock full of locally - sourced, handcrafted oxymoronic eats — meat - free meats.
The phrase «Christian intellectual tradition» is thought by many to be oxymoronic since they have been led to believe (frequently with the encouragement of misguided Christians) that Christianity has to do with faith while the intellectual life has to do with reason, and these are two different ways of speaking about reality that can not speak to one another.
The essay suggests that if and when China emerges as a democracy, it will be a «communal type» of «Confucian democracy,» however oxymoronic the term may sound to people outside of China.
and the same oxymoronic expression continues to appear in the 20th - century works of H. Crouzel, L. Abramowski and B. R. Brasnett (see especially Brasnett's 1928 work, The Suffering of the Impassible God.
The commonly offered alternative is self - limited omniscience, an argument of oxymoronic definitional fiat.
I didn't worry about «light» molasses (seems a little oxymoronic to me), and substituted agave for sugar (reduced the amount).
Jeering and insulting those who you you claim to support is tangibly oxymoronic with an emphasis on the «moron» part.
Food doesn't burn fat — a calorie deficit, i.e. a lack of sufficient dietary energy intake, induces your body to burn fat, and the concept of a «fat burning food» is thus oxymoronic.
In addition to the priest, he befriends Clara, a prostitute — played by an actress with the splendidly oxymoronic name Violante Placido — who is so stirred by his bedroom prowess that she stops charging him and asks him out for dinner instead.
In this strange subculture, there is an even smaller, oxymoronic segment of professional amateurs who travel the country trying to win karaoke contests.
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 — SRT's track - capable Grand Cherokee SRT8 surprised even us, and Hagerty believes the Chrysler performance wing's oxymoronic mission of turning the rugged off - road specialist into a pavement - bound track terror earns this SUV a spot on this list.
I could do without the optional and oxymoronic Pro-4x Luxury Package, for $ 2,100.
The «s» in the model name stands for sport, something that seems oxymoronic when added to a BMW.
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
You're throwing around the word «moron,» but you're the one at least being explicitly oxymoronic.
Now this premise isn't bad, but what is bad is the pace of the main story quests, because it is inherently oxymoronic to how you should play Fallout 4.
Anyone as confused as we are by the somewhat oxymoronic Dead Souls subtitle?
Figurative Geometry, placed within Collezione Maramotti's headquarters, represents a balance between stillness and oxymoronic provocation, creating an intriguing sense of suspension.
As she explains of this curation, «What surprised — really sideswiped — me was a pattern that presented a slightly oxymoronic alternative to the prevailing narrative: the manifold appearances of disappearance in his work actually offer a continuous thread of emotional, intellectual, and formal attentiveness that began when Nauman was a graduate student and continues to this day.»
The project's unwieldy brief provides no a priori function, content, strategy, site, or hypothetical condition apart from the arbitrary definition of seven oxymoronic images.
The tolerated trespasser (TT)(a status described as «conceptually peculiar, even oxymoronic» by Lord Neuberger in Knowsley Housing Trust v White [2008] UKHL 70, [2008] All ER (D) 115 (Dec) was a former residential tenant who remained in occupation after the court had granted a possession order.
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