| And the basic contradiction is the contradiction between the doing and the denial of doing, life and death. |
| And there does seem to be a pretty flat contradiction between those two points. |
| As an observer, I can testify that the comments made by these powerful and successful people were in flat contradiction to the caricature. |
| Those who relish the contradiction of something so bad it's good, will wallow like pigs in clover. |
| To rethink the concept of popular sovereignty beyond the nation-state appears to entail a contradiction in terms. |
| This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron. |
