Despite his accomplishments, he was also something of a contradiction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I explained the Mishnah carefully, showed why there was a contradiction, then read from the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafists, both of which are printed on the same page as the Talmud text. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The very notion of a republican king was a repudiation of the spirit of’76 and a contradiction in terms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And it’s the kind of contradiction that makes my brain hurt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But there was never a shortage of apparent contradictions in the relationship between Chris and his parents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was mystery or contradiction in a friend, Leon took the long view and found a benign explanation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A bundle of contradictions” was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It had long seemed a curious contradiction to Palmer, that among the three kids rollicking on the field, Henry was the tallest yet also the meekest. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Setting music in stone, as it were, so that it stayed the same for each performance, year in and year out, would have struck them as a contradiction of music’s function and enjoyment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek Fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed among ourselves at the idea of “warm” jail food; it was a contradiction in terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now she was real, and full of the most amazing contradictions. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I was to leam later that Mr. Muhammad’s teaching about death and the Muslim funeral service was in drastic contradiction to what Islam taught in the East. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My great-grandfather married a Swedish girl, you know? So the family has light-colored blood, and that Sandi got it all. But imagine, spirit of contradiction, she wanted to be darker complected like her sisters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He spoke at length on the contradiction between the style of the sculpture and the fact that the marble from which it was carved came from Thasos. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But in those early moments, the unceasing contradictions sent me into a gloom. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Washington’s presidency had become trapped within that contradiction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, Oskar Schindler, this complex man of many contradictions—Nazi opportunist, schemer, courageous maverick, rescuer, hero—had saved nearly 1,200 Jews from almost certain death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The most outspoken members of the community refused to internalize the contradiction, openly equating the foreign racists America was moved to destroy with the American racists it chose to abide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Somehow Paris has transformed Black Lightning and me into that oxymoron Sahara and I were talking about—a combination of contradictions that take on a new meaning together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But in a strict, logical sense, some means “at least one” and does not rule out “all”; there’s no contradiction in saying Some men are chauvinists; indeed, all of them are. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would be a mistake to think that one can resolve this contradiction: the whole point of the fact is that it inhabits two worlds and claims the best of both. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that his hypotheses were wrong or in contradiction to firmly established facts, but that some who called themselves scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky’s work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of the voices, of their strange contradictions—of the way they made sound float on air, of how that sound was soft like a warm wind, but so sharp it pierced. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I found Izzy's mom to be a contradiction in terms. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They would be alone together soon, with more contradictions—hilarity and sensuousness, desire and fear at their recklessness, awe and impatience to begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dicey’s job was to see through the contradictions and find out where they made sense together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he con-tended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These apparent contradictions express themselves in everything that he does, down to his elocution. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But there was really no contradiction in this journey. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten how to act naturally, thinking way too much in each situation and getting tangled in the contradictions between my two worlds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Forgive me, Kitty, they don’t call me a bundle of contradictions for nothing! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s position on political parties, like his stance on slavery, seemed to straddle a rather massive contradiction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"There have been some incidents lately," Tía Carmen says in a quiet voice that does not brook contradiction. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It made no sense to me, and I even wondered how Nazis could believe such contradictions themselves. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Really there is no contradiction—rather it’s a condition: the range of what an artful City can do. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a contradiction I delight in,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The official ideology abounds with contradictions even where there is no practical reason for them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The idea of a peaceful, democratic revolution with complete freedom of expression was a contradiction in terms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for this contradiction is found in the overlapping spheres of politics and that last American taboo: class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The essential contradiction between the operational methods of research laboratories and industrial factories became excruciatingly clear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those squeaky hinges were the answer to everything, they explained the inexplicable, they wiped out the contradiction between Gebu’s innocent daytime behavior and his mysteriously increasing wealth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Motherland” was a nation of ideals and contradictions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even so she finally noticed the deep silences, the sudden outbursts, the changes in mood, and the contradictions of her daughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw neither implausibility nor contradiction in this story. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you please tell me exactly what “a bundle of contradictions” is? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that his more liberated views of the Negro were in such contradiction to those of his elders, his parents and uncles, that he no longer went home to visit them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make sense of this, just as I’ve tried to make sense of the other contradictions I’ve been noticing more and more lately. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no contradiction between being a traditional leader and a member of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

How can we resolve this contradiction between Japan’s presumably ancient language and all that other evidence for recent origins? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy’s contradictions crashed and slammed against one another like bumper cars at Coney Island. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If we lift the veil and look underneath...we shall discover much emptiness, darkness, and confusion; nay, if I mistake not, direct impossibilities and contradictions.... Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the shock by laughing, as I brushed the coins off quickly, I discovered that I could contain the electricity—a contradiction, but it works. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, one of the horses lifted its tail and plopped out a contradiction to his statement. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had not finished confirming many details in Lawson’s confession, and there remained certain contradictions. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If that means the United States is founded on a contradiction, then so be it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pascal’s interpretation of the experiment was in direct contradiction to Aristotle’s claim that nature abhors a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Calling infinitesimals “ghosts of departed quantities,” Berkeley showed how making these infinitesimals disappear with impunity can lead to a contradiction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was taboo because it exposed the inherent contradictions of the Virginia position, which was much closer to the position of the Deep South than Madison wished to acknowledge, even to himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But you just said you liked it. And now you say you have no feelings toward it either way. I’ve just caught you in a contradiction. Don’t you see?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was a statement of faith, not a contradiction, and I quickly switched horses. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The gene, Schrödinger posited, had to be made of a peculiar kind of chemical; it had to be a molecule of contradictions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Harsh words, but her voice is tender and the contradiction is a stony reminder that I am missing something vital. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. I suppose you have caught me in a contradiction.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And this was not the only contradiction to the Dublin-black-shawl motif. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had no trouble with the philosophical contradiction of cherishing the children they had with a slave and simultaneously thinking of slaves as property. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

An uncircumcised Xhosa man is a contradiction in terms, for he is not considered a man at all, but a boy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack just stared at her, like he did not see the contradiction, like he could not even fathom what it was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

What fairy tale ever held so much by way of contradiction? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I’m not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of students without contradiction from children who might know something about what existed beyond the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He protested to himself in contradiction: it is not fair to put it like that, as if Mordred or I were the movers of the storm. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you journeyed into the past and prevented your parents from meeting, then you would never have been born—which is something of a contradiction, since you clearly exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost a decade, I’d been privileged to move through it, experiencing its bracing contradictions and bitter conflicts, its pain and persistent idealism, and above all else its resilience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Call it yet another contradiction that my parents embodied. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But the white exhibits contained as many inaccuracies and contradictions as Cora’s three habitats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I chuckled; I had encountered so many such contradictions in the white world that I no longer spent sleepless nights trying to make sense of them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a contradiction I can barely grasp. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the resulting conflicts and contradictions, which remain with us still, it was the idea of discovery that made the new science, and the new set of intellectual values that underpinned it, possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He said, very quietly, “Good. Very good. There is no contradiction. But tell me, you have nothing more to say about what I said earlier?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In White’s desperation to get Hale, he’d committed the ultimate sin of an evidence man and believed, despite apparent contradictions, what he wanted to believe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I told the reporters that there was no contradiction between my continuing support for the armed struggle and my advocating negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no contradiction in the bold claim made by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” if Africans were not really people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Electrons as particles and electrons as waves were equally valid manifestations of the same thing; there was no contradiction, but rather, in Bohr’s term, “complementarity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There are many versions of this paradox but they are essentially equivalent: one would get contradictions if one were free to change the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That in itself is a contradiction in terms. No one could possibly be nice in a den like this.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in both instances, Jefferson managed to convince himself that these apparent contradictions were, well, merely apparent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She knows it’s hard to confront your contradictions. In the Twin Cities, Asian chefs feel the sting of Andrew Zimmern’s insults. They say his apology isn’t enough. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Boyd’s emotional openness to the hidden complexities and contradictions buried within all of us, including himself, set the template for his probing analysis of Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

It is notable, though, that Mr. Brown chose to tour with Kitty — formerly Kitty Pryde — a pairing that captures many of the contradictions of today’s independent hip-hop scene. Music Review: Danny Brown and Kitty at Irving Plaza 2013-05-08T21:58:46Z

One way to look at this contradiction is to see the Simon & Schuster publishing apparatus as a structural seesaw, with books of competing approaches and points of view balancing each other out. Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Cesare’s” clear-eyed tour of Nazi Germany’s moral contradictions and complexities acknowledges the truth in that statement. Review | A Nazi admiral secretly thwarts his superiors in Jerome Charyn’s ‘Cesare’ 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Many people see an inherent contradiction between Charney’s indefatigable championing of workers’ rights and his equally energetic pursuit of his female employees. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

A Croatian Island’s Day in the Sun Hvar, an island in the Adriatic Sea off Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, is in many ways a contradiction. Next Stop: A Croatian Island’s Day in the Sun 2013-07-05T17:32:31Z

Davis claims that issuing licenses to gay couples would force her to “act in contradiction to the moral law of God.” Your “sincerely held religious beliefs” don’t matter: County clerks must uphold the law and issue same-sex marriage licenses 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

"The characters that have the most contrast are the most interesting, and Di is a woman with a lot of contradictions," said Dorval. In 'Mommy,' Xavier Dolan looks things in the eye 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Weinberger distills the cultural record in all its contradictions: They are immaterial, yet in the Bible they eat and drink; they are purely good, yet in the Gospels they sometimes engage in deception. New & Noteworthy, From Angels to American Cuisine 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

He renders every complication and contradiction in broad strokes, rushing ahead to a swift and unsatisfying conclusion, as though too taken in by his own romantic telling to disrupt it. How Did a $2 Billion Trove of Art End Up in a Random Attic in France? 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

No one seemed bothered by the apparent contradiction of a golden statue in a poorly educated and developing country. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

It's still a brilliant performance, in a brilliant film, because what Eccleston does get spot-on is the spirit of Lennon, with all his complications, contradictions and demons. Naked Lennon 2010-06-23T23:05:00Z

That’s partly because this cheery documentary — about the uneasy alignment of L.G.B.T. life and avid Christianity in the town of Eureka Springs, Ark. — refuses to grapple with its glaring contradictions. ‘The Gospel of Eureka’ Review: Christianity and Queerness Intersect in a Small Town 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“I was sometimes a picture of contradiction,” he writes, “and depending on who I was talking to, my voice changed.” To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Cobain was an “archetype” of pop stars who rebel against society, he said, then find their music and style co-opted by mainstream culture, and struggle to cope with the contradictions. A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

That is the kind of contradiction that feeds my work.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: Going His Own Way, a Pakistani Artist Arrives 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

Most of these contradictions, especially the last, aren't contradictions at all. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

“They are just trying to live and breathe as women with all their contradictions. And it’s a liberated and liberating way of looking at oneself.” The Yoko Ono of Comics, on Her Own Terms 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

He reconciled the contradictions of capitalism by embracing oxymorons. ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

His favourite trope is the paradox, and his six months in Siberia are full of contradiction. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z

Hawke, accelerating without notice into passionate sermons or welling into sentimental tears, cuts through the contradictions by emphasizing a theatricality that doesn’t undermine Brown’s sincerity but is inextricable from it. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Rather, there is rhetoric, history and mythology, which memorials attempt to fix in some kind of permanent form, beyond emendation or contradiction. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The Dadaist loves the extraordinary and the absurd. He knows that life asserts itself in contradictions,” wrote another. ‘Destruction Was My Beatrice,’ by Jed Rasula 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

To properly anthologize the genre in full is to reckon with its contradictions, its competing narratives and its inconsistencies. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

She offers this definition without my asking, which is a delicious contradiction, as are a lot of things about Sevigny. Chloë Sevigny at Forty 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

In all of them Tóibín's focus is laser-incisive, illuminating complexities and contradictions of behavior in prose that couldn't be more shrewd or clear. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z

Bolshevik leaders subliminally grasped the contradiction almost at once; and their rankly Procrustean answer was to leave the program untouched and change human nature. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Pryor tells us that the greatest contradiction he faced was between the ideal of democracy and prevailing negative views of Indians. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Bhattacharya, a science journalist who also holds a Ph.D. in physics, doesn’t probe too deeply into these apparent contradictions. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Most came for both and saw no contradiction in that. Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth sinks star live in Detroit 2011-04-03T15:24:42Z

Much of the L.A.-based artist's work reads as a parable of the here and now, a poke at the fundamental contradiction lurking within our device-dependent lives. Laurie Lipton: Drawing the walking dead with a most beguiling beauty 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

The ensuing contradictions and tensions allow writers to address problems of past and present — the nutritional issues of fried chicken, for example. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Like Joel, she likes to wrestle with the contradictions of “Manhattan.” Cat Power Shines on Sun 2012-09-07T12:00:25Z

The Oscars are always full of awkwardness and contradiction, and the show is always better when some of the discomfort is allowed to fester, rather than being papered over. Let’s Talk About the Oscars: An Evening of Squirming 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

No one is arguing that the arts should be sacrosanct, but this scorched earth policy runs in direct contradiction to economic development targets. 100% arts funding cut? This Newcastle budget is an act of vandalism 2012-12-18T15:45:01Z

They argue and give voice to Israel's contradictions. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z

The exhibit is the first to seek to show how Dali - who died in 1989 aged 84 - was a genius because of, not despite, his contradictions. 'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet 2012-11-20T14:36:08Z

A flashback that seems to offer us proof that Charles is lying is revealed to be part of his own testimony in court, in which he then offers an explanation for the apparent contradiction. Review: ‘Quiz’ Has a Big Question but No Final Answer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Such are the contradictions that animate a major subgenre of art cinema, determined to renounce reassurance and uplift in favor of making its complacent audience squirm. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

There’s this tension and contradiction, this weird entropic cycle of utopian ideals and the impossibility of that. Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos – from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park 2013-06-20T17:16:00Z

The contradiction goes unnoticed by the right, however, which pulls on whatever justification is most convenient for arguing that this random white guy is more worthy of awards than women or people of color. The alt-right attacks sci-fi: How the Hugo Awards got hijacked by Trumpian-style culture warriors 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The Sumner joke does not appear in White’s stately and thoroughly researched book, and neither do many contradictions. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis captured these contradictions while conveying its coherence. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

“In his hands,” Genzlinger wrote, “this accidental president comes across as an amazing bundle of contradictions, someone who seems at once too vulgar for the job and just right for it.” What’s on TV This Week: Lorde on Late Night and ‘American Horror Story’ 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Rita, his confidante and sparring partner for decades, understands this contradiction. Theater Review: Charles Busch’s ‘The Tribute Artist’ Is at 59E59 Theaters 2014-02-10T03:00:01Z

All the contradictions of the High Line, spurred by democratic idealism yet now a catalyst for the great spectacle of wealth and inequity, are embodied in the building. At the Whitney, a new structure forges a different relationship with the city 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

On her wrist, she wore a wide brown leather band inlaid with small brass grommets, a delicate ladies Westclock watch embedded in it—a perfect contradiction of girlish and rocker style. A girl's skeleton in the museum: On runaways, the Jersey Shore and a cold case that haunted me 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The branding contradictions between these fitness companies and Ross-the-Trump-supporter are legion. Perspective | The SoulCycle and Equinox controversy hits close to home — because they’re selling an idealized version of you 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Less obsessed with being likable, more accepting of human contradiction. Review | In ‘White,’ Bret Easton Ellis baits his critics with morsels specially tooled to elicit outrage 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But nobody, least of all Coelho, would suggest the oeuvre of the writer, who has sold 145m books worldwide and been translated into 74 languages, is devoid of contradictions. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

At first glance, these polarities of the movie business — high-minded art and box-office-driven commerce — would seem to be contradictions at Cannes, which functions both as a festival and a market. Why the success of mega-blockbusters is relevant at the artsy, auteur-driven Cannes Film Festival 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

It's fair to say, then, that one-to-watch Bridget Christie is a bundle of contradictions. Comedy profile: Bridget Christie 2010-03-26T15:32:00Z

It’s clear from this book that one of Kushner’s most extraordinary qualities as an artist is that he doesn’t just accept human flaws and contradictions, he relishes them. Review | A full-bodied portrait of ‘Angels in America,’ a play redefined what theater could be 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

When I try to describe this epic work by the Belgian theater collective FC Bergman, I get bogged down in contradictions: Grotesque yet radiant. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

The contradiction is remarkable — how exalting the moment is without compromising Roston’s unflinching gaze at Hathaway’s destructive demons. Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

She didn’t need a commission: the style of the film could have taken itself from the Fitzgeraldian contradictions and investigations into selfhood that have for years been the hallmark of her work. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

He learned from his studies that some characters were built on their contradictions, so he decided that his evildoer would have a sense of humor. The Joker in the Deck: Birth of a Supervillain 2010-10-04T21:05:00Z

In mining the contradictions and comedy of his own spiritual journey, Youssef said he wanted “Ramy” to be a messy portrait of a personal reconciliation. ‘Ramy’ and the New American Muslims of TV 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

And their music was all the better for it — because contradictions are fascinating, and we’re all guilty of them. Beach Boys' 'Radio' Tunes Into Summer Nostalgia 2012-06-05T10:45:30Z

In expertly made animated videos, Bible narratives are presumed true, and there is little or no discussion of their manifold contradictions. Perspective | The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

When I see her like this, so buoyant and playful and caring, I cannot comprehend the contradictions, how they translate to where we are now. All We Can Do: a short story by T.M. Shine

His career has been a splendid enactment of the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and at the same time a series of deeply personal meditations on love, loss and imagination. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Whether that contradiction can be addressed within the confines of the musical as written remains to be seen. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

Unwilling to interrogate his own work, now Bertolucci has left it to audiences to reconcile its contradictions — or at least allow them to coexist in an uneasy standoff. Perspective | More than anyone, Bernardo Bertolucci exemplified the pain and pleasure of the male gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

But, she added, the museum knew it couldn’t present a simple hagiography of Curtis’ work without acknowledging its contradictions. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Double Exposure’ and the negative/positive legacy of photographer Edward S. Curtis 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But embrace it smartly, with full awareness of its contradictions and its lures. Will 'The End of the Tour' warp the way we think about David Foster Wallace? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Nesbø is likely to be ever more popular, even though he is something of a contradiction. How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Ut?ya massacre? 2011-07-30T23:06:29Z

The hotel full of ambitious young women — at a time when women’s ambition was met with even more anxiety and contradiction than it is today — was bound to be a site of controversy and disappointment. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Kimhi wants to rescue the intuition that it is a logical contradiction to say, “It’s raining, but I don’t believe it’s raining.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Here white racial paranoia — as a function of the absurd race concept — is based on contradictions and hypocrisy that nonetheless somehow cohere together. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Rather than evade these social contradictions, “Love Is ___” embraces them. The Black Sitcom Steps Out of the ’90s and Gets Real 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The installation, titled "ChimaTEK: Avatar Download Station and Virtual Chimeric Space," is a playful site for mashing up apparent contradictions and incongruities. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

“The only way to solve this contradiction is to make sure you are obsessive about the identity of the place.” An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Pal Hansen Professor Elizabeth Stone, the heroine of Grace McCleen's incandescent second novel, is a classic campus contradiction: both quite brilliant and utterly clueless. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

A hulking contradiction tucked under a stratum of ropy muscle, his Dennis is at once massive and passive, as big as a house and shy as a mouse. Movie Review: ‘Teddy Bear,’ With the Danish Bodybuilder Kim Kold 2012-08-21T21:47:54Z

“It sounds like a contradiction, but that is what a lot of parenting is,” says Clark, author of The Sex-Positive Parent blog. Finding your kid’s porn 2012-09-30T01:00:00Z

Moser doesn’t shy away from the complexity and contradictions of his subject, investigating virtually all of her intellectual positions, arguments and influences. 17 New Books to Watch For in September 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Such inner contradictions represent the attempt to balance competing energies. How can I serve the world? 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z

I love these themes because they allow you to maneuver at the touchpoint between these contradictions. Director on "Huda's Salon" recruiting Palestinian women for Secret Service: This is still happening 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Private Doss, a true hero among heroes, was a contradiction,” said Bill Mechanic, one of the film’s producers. ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ a Gory War Movie for Both Hawks and Doves 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

At times, she can seem like a walking contradiction, but this is what it is like to navigate two cultures. ‘Hala’ Is the Story of a Chameleon. It Reminded Me of Myself. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cain said that the Starck Club, the first “mixed club” in the city that appealed equally to gay and straight patrons, became the ultimate symbol of all of those changes and cultural contradictions. Texas Monthly: ‘The Starck Club’ Documents Rise and Fall of Dallas Nightclub 2014-04-13T00:53:32Z

But it’s an even better show when it dwells on the contradictions inherent in all political and social movements. ‘Good Girls Revolt’ is a much-needed dose of forthright feminism on TV 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But then Snoop Doggy Dogg, as he was first known, was never afraid of embracing his contradictions. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z

His death, the contradiction of birth but sharing a dreadful synergy. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

The view of a multistory apartment complex is instantly legible as a whole but abounds in slow-release peculiarities, revelatory details and telling contradictions. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Confusing, yet it turns out that they are nothing if not a band who thrive on their own contradictions. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z

She floods the screen with warmth, threatens to burn the joint down and, with Mr. Mills, turns contradictions into character. Review: 1 Teenage Boy and 3 Mothers in ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Not only is it no contradiction—it’s a constitutive dialectic of the cinema. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It’s ostensibly the story of the lifesaving properties of her high-elevation ranch in Colorado, although there’s not much to cultivate up there in the long winters except, apparently, self-delusion and acres of self-satisfied contradictions. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

As a whole package, Hemingway is a heaping spoonful of contradictions and unsavory attitudes, some of which are examined again in the new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Hearty Basque Food That Hemingway Would Have Understood 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Gingerbread done right is everything I adore — a contradiction of comfort and a kick in the pants, never gooey or cutesy. ’Tis the season to revisit the gingerbread that continues to defy me 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

What a contrast to Aunt March, the domineering, authority-on-everything woman who accepts no contradiction. Strong sisters in ArtsWest’s ‘Little Women’ musical 2013-12-12T20:49:26Z

He also discussed a selection of contradictions about what the wall would actually resemble. Late-night TV roundup: Trump probably 'great at a game of Douchebag Charades' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

In him all the contradictions of the two towns are personified. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z

His USP is that he is fun and therefore anti-politics, which may work as mayor of a huge louche city that is itself a mass of contradictions. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z

Like the movement itself, their relationship is swept up in the passions and contradictions of the young: full of both conviction and uncertainty, idealism and fatalism. First love on the front lines: Coming of age in the Hong Kong protests 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Just because I am engaged in the poetry of looking, and touched by music, and nightlife, and musicians, and youth culture, it isn’t a contradiction to be interested” in how things actually function, he said. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

In several of these cases, cellphone video of the incident offered a dramatic contradiction of the first police accounts. Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Powered by poetry that decries the contradictions and repressions of institutionalized racism, of the pressure on those who are “fighting off / the weight of nonexistence,” the book is an innovative amalgam of genres. The best in criticism: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Married to estranged twins — he loves one; tradition makes the other obligatory — he struggles to command a family that simmers with resentments, rivalries, deceptions and internal contradictions. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Drag rests on heightening and exposing the contradictions of identity, and the best TikTok material does the same. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

But the contradictions in Pattaya highlight Thailand's challenge in tackling a side of its tourist industry that remains economically vital while being officially excoriated. Sex in Thai city frustrates junta 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

“There’s many things in life where there is contradiction.” ArtsBeat: Michel Gondry, Reluctant Cannes Judge 2011-05-20T15:33:03Z

That sequence, by the way, perfectly captures the happy contradictions of Radiohole. Theater Review: Radiohole’s ‘Inflatable Frankenstein’ at the Kitchen 2013-01-06T22:46:36Z

For years, she thought, if she studied the Bible hard enough she might work out the contradictions. Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z

Harris, the “Taking the Heat” co-author, said that in her book research, she noticed a contradiction among the female chefs she interviewed. Rape in the storage room. Groping at the bar. Why is the restaurant industry so terrible for women? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

Avery thinks of the things that have been written about her father: “So many books, so many contradictions; with every new word written the truth becomes murkier.” A Political Scandal’s Trauma, Seen From the Inside 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

With a fly-on-the-wall approach, the movie allows the center’s cruel contradictions to accumulate with a slow burn. ‘Overseas’ Review: Human Capital 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“France is beset by a contradiction,” Professor Newman said. Dipping Into a French Melting Pot 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

As Jenkins said, every Rick James fan has wrestled with these contradictions at some point, including the director. Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

The tensions and contradictions that propelled Thatcher’s rise and fueled the eloquent, impotent resistance to her rule have not gone away. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

She’s a little annoyed, but you can tell that she savors the implicit contradiction of that moment. Theater Review: Kim Cattrall Stars in ?Private Lives? - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:49Z

It’s so vibrant, alive, and full of contradictions. Diana Ejaita’s “Portrait of History” 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

There is a part in this season where you talk about all of those contradictions in yourself, saying, "I'm not perfect." "The L Word" star Jennifer Beals on why we need "Generation Q" more than ever 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But these stories spotlight the contradiction between the Rev. Archibald’s caution about publicly supporting civil rights and the lesson he privately imparted to his children: “Life’s great memories were the ones with the greatest risk.” Review | In ‘Shaking the Gates of Hell,’ a preacher’s son examines his church’s culture of silence on civil rights 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

In the heyday of Modernism, nations saw no contradiction between flaunting the colonial “civilizing mission” and their high-art achievements. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Like Scrooge’s ghosts, like Santa’s thrones, like the dead bodies that mystery writers pour into our laps every December, the holiday can no more be turned back than its contradictions can be elided. Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The result is a bubbling stew of contradictions that surface in befuddling, if entertaining, ways. Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

He had to hold contradictions in his head in order to allow himself to get swept up in a moment led by an inflammatory figure. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

The modest dreams of Usnavi and his neighbors and friends are reflections of a very big dream — the American one, which the film celebrates without irony even as it takes note of certain contradictions. ‘In the Heights’ Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

This is hip-hop working through its own implications, contradictions and repercussions. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

There’s an obvious contradiction that comes out of this, of course: How can I talk about climate change when my flights are causing so much damage to the environment? Midway Through His Year, Our 52 Places Traveler Answers Readers’ Questions 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

This is the contradiction of optimistic pessimism common to speculative fiction. Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The compulsively watchable Ms. Mirren brings out the humor and the pathos in this contradiction, though with slightly less precision than she did in London. Review: ‘The Audience,’ With Helen Mirren, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Its brutally accurate depiction of the idiocies and contradictions of the political culture has a crucial role in itself, if sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant. Hail to the Veep: the best and most brutal comedy of the century 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

A modest superhero picture may sound like a contradiction in terms, but really it is a welcome respite. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z

Ultimately, though, Newman examines the contradictions of the male pysche on a wider scale. Rumer's old music: Randy Newman - Marie 2012-05-25T13:24:57Z

Similarly, “KPOP” the show — an Ars Nova production in collaboration with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Woodshed Collective, which opened on Friday night at A.R.T./New York — vibrates with the frenzy of its contradictions. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Lubet regards this as a contradiction of the published version and maintains his skepticism about “On the Run.” We can’t handle the truth: “Primates of Park Avenue,” “On the Run” and nonfiction fact-checking blood baths 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Despite the contradictions and controversies, Beyoncé’s star power, virtuosity and ability to “cause all this conversation,” will undoubtedly see her play an integral role in the 2020s as well. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

One way to push Hollywood toward change is to heighten its contradictions, drawing out the gap between its shimmering idea of itself and its darker realities. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

They are beginning to study and question the contradictions of a system of ruthless oppression that has taken away so much. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z

Douthat is too curious about the world and its contradictions to settle into that mode. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

And what a strange time for women on film — especially this summer, when the contradictions of progress were evident in full force. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force

It encapsulates an apparent contradiction, that we move forward to get back to something we once enjoyed. Perspective | The Republican convention messed with something more fundamental than logic. It screwed up our sense of time. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

History is made up of struggle, contradiction, resistance. Poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrates the power of a people’s voice 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

All of her contradictions came together in 1961 when she covered the Eichmann trial for The New Yorker, describing it as a “show trial” rather than a judicial exercise. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Covering themes from menstruation and exercise to ethical clothing, she and her guests explore the contradictions and limitations of modern feminism in a way that never feels overly heavy. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

It is a mysterious city of contradictions, the currency leans on the CUC, the Cuban peso which in turn leans on the American tourist dollar, their value is the same. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

“So to then just ban a Kenyan film because it deals with something already happening in society just seems like a contradiction,” she told Reuters. Kenya bans lesbian love story film 'Rafiki' set to debut at Cannes 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In his new role, Carson still sees himself as a warrior against impending doom, but he’s battling contradictions on the side. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

They acknowledge the artist as “a man of contradictions and imperfections.” Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Borgia” also factors in the contradictions of papal intrigue and religious faith. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

The complexity of what followed reflected the convolutions and contradictions of the law. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The Paris Opera, which celebrates its 350th birthday in 2019, is an unlikely contradiction to the worldwide trend of an aging audience at operas. Is opera audience aging? Not in Paris 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Jones herself is a bundle of contradictions; part fiery Fleabag and part sensitive best friend Boo, a role that Waller-Bridge based on Jones. Fleabag’s Vicky Jones: ‘Porn was the thing that kept coming up ’ 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The elaborately constructed, meandering plots of “Triangle of Sadness” and “The Square” purport to expose the hypocrisies and contradictions of contemporary life, but they are edifices of complacency, clever advertisements for the status quo. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

It would be ignorance for ignorance’s sake if Tyler weren’t trying to unpack all these contradictions, too. Tyler, the Creator is His Own Worst Enemy on Wolf 2013-04-03T11:00:02Z

It is full of insights, contradictions, apologias, flashes of anger, tidbits of history, extended stories of awe, compassion, some glibness and moments of brilliance. Book Review Podcast: 'America's Bitter Pill' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The contradiction between that effort and the architecture of the complex is basic and striking. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Though “stolid” is a questionable term given how bouncily she zips from borough to borough, that sense of contradiction is key to the actor’s allure. A tale of two It Girls: Chloë Sevigny, Greta Gerwig and the generational likability divide 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

In direct contradiction of Christian and classical teaching, astronomy was proving man and Earth were not at the centre of the universe after all. The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science 2012-06-25T16:52:34Z

This short text, seen rightly, reveals the contradictions of a whole culture. All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

In its talky early sequences, Caan's script pushes too hard; within the first half-hour, not one but two characters tell Johnny what a contradiction he is. Scott, James Cann go head-to-head in "Mercy" 2010-04-14T01:40:00Z

But the thing that they don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

The first season offered a perfectly balanced set of contradictions. ArtsBeat: Homeland's Season Finale, With a Twist 2012-12-17T11:48:01Z

They had all the contradictions and untidiness that come with free will. | 'The Intelligent Homosexual?s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures': Debating Dialectics and Dad?s Suicide Plan 2011-05-06T13:00:05Z

Now, it is absolutely true that real life does not always give you neat “Rosebud” explanations; real people are often simply jumbles of unresolved contradictions. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

In the end the show struggles to reconcile its own contradictions: gushing and detached, glib and deeply romantic, a play of ideas that rejects deep thought. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z

So perhaps my perspective is skewed, but I must ask – isn't competitive baking a contradiction in terms? Review: The Great British Bake-Off 2010-08-18T09:39:00Z

“The Presidency considers that this behavior is in contradiction with honor,” the spokeswoman said. France considers revoking Weinstein's Legion of Honour 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

I don't think you can sum up our nation's contradictions any better than that. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

If Nottage’s aim was to keep “Clyde’s” a comedy, even one about redemption, Jason had to be rebuilt; in the writing though not the performance — Donovan faultlessly negotiates the contradictions — the seams sometimes show. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

There is a certain charm to Jenner, analogous to Donald Trump’s charm before he had any power and rooted in the same effortless boasting and obliviousness to her own contradictions. Caitlyn Jenner on transitioning: ‘It was hard giving old Bruce up. He still lives inside me’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Further, people at CNN defend the Cohen-Davis piece by asserting that there’s no contradiction between a reporter speaking to a source on a background basis and then saying that same person declined to comment. CNN said a source declined to comment. Except he actually did. Is that a problem? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

We never see the author finally coming to terms with himself, but we do see a man catching his own contradictions on the wing. The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z

The PEN report digs right into those seeming contradictions. Can Cries of ‘Free Speech’ Be a Weapon? Students Say Yes 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

"All the tension and contradictions of the late '60s are there," he said. Returning to 'The Wonder Years' world 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

The social media platforms did not respond to requests for comment on the seeming contradiction of the rules and how they are enforced. OnlyFans May Be a Refuge for Nude Fine Art 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

There’s some contradiction here: OK, you want a girlfriend, but at the same time you’re paying for it. Paying for sex — and love 2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

The tension between authority and freedom, between self-restraint and liberation, between conflicting desires in seeming contradiction, between chance and necessity is the subject of Rohmer’s life and of his art. Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

There is less contradiction in that, perhaps, than in God's contrariness. Lot and His God – review 2012-11-19T13:57:20Z

Carlo Russo, Antonia’s father, is thoughtful, even sensitive: He detests the brutality of his work, the internal contradictions of trying to keep his terrifying boss happy while nurturing his young family. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

There’s a contradiction between the steady level of excellence that is expected of top-level performers and the grind of the international artist’s lifestyle, appearing in the same programs in one city after another. A sabbatical for masterful Evgeny Kissin may be coming at the right time 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Everyone acknowledged that any discussion of a male-female aesthetic divide would throw up contradictions and exceptions. Why are women choreographers two steps behind the lords of the dance? 2013-04-19T13:28:58Z

Few franchises' fans are pricklier about canon than Trekkers unless the contradictions or violations in question occur on a show deemed nearly beyond reproach — like "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The character was built entirely on that complexity and that contradiction. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Keats sees things as they are, with all their contradictions. My hero: John Keats by Helen Dunmore 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

Mr. Mendonça’s camera tiptoes through rooms like one of the intruders that are sometimes glimpsed on rooftops or in corridors, and it exposes a world of complex relationships and simmering contradictions. Movie Review: ‘Neighboring Sounds,’ Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012-08-23T22:30:30Z

“Wall Street is a mess, a morass, a snarl of contradictions large and small — a magnet for envy and indignation, fear and worship,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in September. DVDs: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know 2010-12-25T03:53:01Z

In her collection of essays Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay writes about the apparent contradictions of labelling herself with the “f” word. Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

I’m not the only one trying to navigate the contradiction of being a parent and being a vet. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

But confronting the world in all its shameless contradictions is her hallmark. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

But in one of the many contradictions that define him, his life is one of monastic solitude and simplicity. | 'Bill Cunningham New York': Capturing a ?Look at Me? Milieu With Impish Modesty 2011-03-16T00:30:05Z

Those of us with more complicated feelings can feel gratified that, in one small corner of the movie universe at least, its most troubling contradictions might be confronted with honesty and nuance. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

That critique only goes so far in “Bombshell,” which finally can’t deal with the story’s uncomfortable contradictions. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Sarah is a character full of contradictions: As the incoming commander of a U.S. With ‘We Are Who We Are,’ Luca Guadagnino Wants You to Question Yourself 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

These sentences sounded like a subtle contradiction of Obama’s own argument, way back in 2008, in favor of the power of rhetoric, responding to Hillary Clinton’s charge that his campaign was built upon “just words.” Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

By sense of resolution, I mean that her heart breaks open wide enough to accept those contradictions that I was talking about. “I wish we talked about ‘choices’ instead of ‘choice’”: A Texas abortion counselor on how to change the conversation about abortion 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Dickens is a man of massive contrast and contradictions, and I like that it might stir it up a bit, people might talk about it. A Minute With: Ralph Fiennes on Dickens, Shakespeare and Bond 2013-12-24T10:25:37Z

All these hypocrisies and mixed motives and contradictions, as well as being a good source of comedy and plot twists, have the feel of political lives as they are actually lived. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

There is a lot of that: the contradictions of China – the rich and the poor, the old and the new, tradition and innovation, the yin and the yang, the sweet and the sour, etc. TV review: Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure; The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World; The Simpsons 2012-08-05T21:15:01Z

Pasolini’s temperament is quieter — for all his eloquence, his deepest gifts are for listening and observation — and more finely grained with contradiction. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Burke is passionate, ferocious, often very humorous about the contradictions and frailties of the MeToo movement, and the vision – developed over decades of unglamorous and largely unrecognised work – underpinning it. Steve McQueen meets Tarana Burke: ‘I want to be part of shifting the narrative’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Chris Hedges is a bundle of contradictions and so too is his new book, “America: The Farewell Tour.” A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

She became fascinated with the contradictions of Johnson, who insisted she never loved William Masters even though they ended up married for two decades. The Liberation of Lizzy Caplan 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The resulting palimpsest reflects the contradictions and possibilities of American cinema in the 21st century. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

"It's all these wonderful contradictions, but it's nothing if not ridiculous." 'Man Seeking Woman' navigates 'minefield' of Millennial dating 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

“I thought it would be so interesting to tell the story of the dancers and Don, in connection and in contrast and in contradiction and in conflict with each other.” A ‘Soul Train’ Musical Sets Its Sights on Broadway 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Surely it’s enough to expose with overwhelming comic energy the contradictions and paradoxes of “mutual assured destruction.” The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It is a fable through which Philip Pullman reflects on Jesus, on the tensions and contradictions of organised religion – and indeed on the nature of storytelling. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

That put him at the center of the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, in all its idealism, earnestness and contradictions. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z

Presenting “great men” along with oppressed groups, Lepore, a Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer, captures the nation’s enduring strengths and brutal contradictions. New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Klein was a complicated creature, given to hyperbole, adept at self-mythology, guided by an overweening narcissism and full of contradictions. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z

And it is frequently treated as a joke by people who have no interest in Cage’s philosophical approach to music and for whom a piece of silent music is, by definition, a contradiction in terms. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z

But if great artists embody a contradiction, Mr. Branca’s is that he can rise up out of his continuity with an almost feral sense of power in the stop-time present. Review: Glenn Branca’s Symphonies Resound With the Power of the Here and Now 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“But the speed of the resort to censorship, without any apparent awareness of the contradictions, is part of the broader erosion of free speech in our society.” Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

There’s the strange contradiction in finding pain repurposed into joy, she says. How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

Such are the mental contradictions when reading a lesser Williams novel. After a Cataclysm, the Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Stay Sane 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Friedrich’s painting is a contradiction between self-reflection in the wake of realizing one’s own insignificance; a visual iteration of the Kantian philosophy that one’s experiences are merely a product of the mind. How memes are breaking down elitism in the fine art world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Another contradiction was at work in India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Book review: ‘Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature,’ by Robert Darnton

Many of these musical koans are held together by the contradiction of stillness and movement with hyperkinetic streams of tiny notes forming sound sculptures that appear to hover in space. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

This documentary, which showed at South by Southwest and BAMcinemaFest, explores the contradictions of his lifestyle. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The titanic force of his character admitted no distinction between creator and destroyer; his character was mightily unified, and the simplicity of his ineffable grace is forged from the fusion of unbearable contradictions. Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I’m just being honest,” Powers says, trying again to explain her contradictions. Kirsten Powers: An antiabortion, antiwar liberal working for Fox News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Chief among the book’s strengths is that it does not shy away from pointing out … contradictions in the relationship at its heart.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

"Most sibling attachments," Rowe observes at one point, "are composed of contradictions which allow no complete resolution." David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

This is a contradiction that these teens face. In "At the Ready," teens' path to Border Patrol & law enforcement is "akin to military recruitment" 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Chinese organizers saw things differently, saying there was no contradiction between the subject of the exhibition and their country’s politics. Art: 'The Age of Enlightenment' Sweeps Into China 2011-04-18T13:57:28Z

Ms. Belmore, a soft-spoken sort who lets her work do the talking, said it represented the contradictions of her identity. A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don’t Call It ‘Indian.’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

In “Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast,” Cynthia Saltzman, the author of two previous books about art, exposes the rich contradictions of the 1796 Italian campaign through the story of a prized Venetian masterpiece. How Napoleon Became One of History’s Most Rapacious Art Looters 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

For her, there appears to be no contradiction between hitting hard and dancing like a lady. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

A Separation is also a bigger picture of the modern Iran with all its complexities and contradictions. A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think' 2011-07-15T15:54:42Z

Rattigan's mastery of the well-made play is to find the contradictions within the form, the desires that do not fit the conventional narratives. No fogey 2010-06-09T14:09:00Z

The same contradictions that marked his father’s life went even deeper in Mr. Nashenas’s own: a secular man in a profoundly religious family; a rationalist in a society trapped in tribal ways. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

I wanted a story that reflected the complexity and contradictions of a missionary childhood. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Missionary’s Daughter in Haiti 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Their conversation becomes circular rather than dramatic, bogged down in detail, as each asserts their own version of the past, afraid of contradiction. The East Pier ? review 2011-03-29T16:58:36Z

But that is just another feature of the essential Shakespearean contradiction which Grandage's production so brilliantly captures. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z

Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime resident of the state, explores Texas’ foibles, ironies and contradictions with affection. New in Paperback: ‘God Save Texas,’ ‘How It Happened’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

As Lowther leads us through the wings where the patients lived, it becomes apparent that the hospital is a study in contrasts and contradictions. In West Virginia, a moving, respectful tour of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Is the joke on them or on us, who helplessly believe everything we see in spite of evident contradictions? Review: In ‘Right Now, Wrong Then,’ a Double Take and Its Choices 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Such Good Work” and “The Altruists” are alive to the contradictions between morality and comfort that exist everywhere under global structures of capitalism and politics. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

O’Rourke’s contradictions are what made him a friend, on the page, worth having. P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Yet those people seem to forget a running contradiction. “I did so many bad things with my genitals”: Blink-182’s Travis Barker opens up on sex, drugs, plane crashes and Christianity 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Some whites tried to find reasons why universal theories did not apply or, failing that, lived in stunning contradiction. Aux armes, historiens! 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

But there's also much here that evinces his fascination with and appreciation of life, and his uncanny ability to capture its contradictions, absurdity and joys in spoken word. 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Spalding Gray at his eloquent, daring best in documentary 2011-01-13T21:08:03Z

Barry Gewen tackles the contradictions, and offers absolution, in “The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World,” a timely and acute defense of the great realist’s actions, values and beliefs. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

In a concert earlier in the week, Jurowski was equally impressive in Mahler's Fourth Symphony, again entering easily into its extraordinary mood-swings and contradictions. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z

I am referring to its ambiguities, its contradictions, its connection to the richness and freedom of our inner lives, to beauty and pain, and its ability to speak to confusions within and without. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

Yet he also noted that her art “entertains contradiction and several different ways of working and thinking,” and concluded, “There is too much going on to make sense of it all.” An Artist Brings Alive the Worlds Dancing in Her Head 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

“He was a little bit of a contradiction,” said country singer Brad Paisley, who recorded one of several all-star duets King made a decade ago for the album “80” celebrating his 80th birthday. B.B. King remembered by musical peers: 'What struck me was the kindness' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

This final twist was ridiculous but made a final needle-sharp point: Different strands of feminism -- or any kind of social activism -- can work in contradiction to each other. "30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own 2011-02-25T18:01:00Z

Perhaps more than any other American institution, Hollywood worked to foster agreement, to imagine a space — within the theater walls and on the screen — where conflicts could be resolved and contradictions wished away. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

There are odd contradictions and paradoxes in “The Lord Chandos Letter.” Perspective | There’s no hope for America unless we can pity ourselves 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vincent, who attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, said he saw no contradiction between his faith and his work on the stage. Tony Vincent, Actor 2010-02-17T18:46:00Z

The non sequiturs and changes of tone in Cunningham choreography remain beautifully riveting: they show how full of variety and contradiction humanity can be. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z

It is both transparent and opaque – a perfect mirror to reflect the creepy contradictions in Henry James's late-Victorian ghost story. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z

Peraino’s timely book shows how the decisions and contradictions of that year still bedevil the two countries’ relationship, but in today’s globalized world, separation is all but unthinkable. New in Paperback: ‘Windfall,’ ‘The Ruined House’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Starting with Hindu mythology — filled with ambiguities, abstractions and contradictions — is as nervy a move as Aru lighting the lamp. Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

He is trying to embrace those contradictions fully and candidly, which also means embracing the play’s locker room nude scenes. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her story is still best told by her music, sung with “an atom-bomb voice” and filled with contradictions. Books of The Times: Stand by Your Singer and Her Art 2010-03-03T22:54:00Z

The final shot is at once perfectly clear and perfectly ambiguous, a reminder that some contradictions are more easily understood than resolved. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

In drawing on Internet secrets, Mr. Lang illuminates the contradictions in modern life, the contrasts drawn between what we reveal in heated comment threads and what we conceal in the real world. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

The last image in “The Sunchaser,” of Michael welcomed home and handcuffed, captures the contradictions that tormented Cimino from the beginning. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

It hilariously exemplifies the double standards and contradictions that still define many global leaders’ views of drugs. United Nations’ pot hypocrisy 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

“Blue has the flexibility to accommodate contradiction,” she says. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

His pilgrimage is secular; he seeks to filter the contradictions of present-day India through his life story. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

As a solo artist, the contradictions within herself could now join to sing their own intimate duets. Remarkable Records of Joni Mitchell’s Changes 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Harmontown” is that rare, darkly compelling documentary that shows the unsavory traits of a person next to the loving and witty ones, forcing viewers to reconcile any contradictions. ‘Harmontown,’ a documentary that’s not always so kind to its subject

Many commentators on the problems of Mid Staffordshire have been baffled by an apparent contradiction. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z

The film doesn’t dwell on his sad last days, but it does address his many contradictions — personal, musical and political. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

The show is the first all-out attempt in the United States in seven decades to grapple with the contradictions of early-20th-century Mexican political art. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Then again, the former American Idol winner is not afraid of contradictions. Kelly Clarkson: ‘Not A Feminist’ 2013-10-30T23:36:45Z

With the contradictions of the characters pointedly not resolved, everyone is culpable; it becomes less of a whodunit than a whodidn’t. Review: ‘Judgment Day,’ an Allegory of Blame, Goes Big 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“I want to depict desire in the age of chaos, and chaos comes from all the contradictions I’ve experienced throughout my life.” A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

To overlook those contradictions requires that voters treat them rather like Magritte’s claim about his pipe: It’s true in a way, but it’s also not. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In this film, which sees no contradiction between hope and accepting death, his fate is left open. | 'Aashayein': Handsome Guy Is Dying, but He Can Afford Care 2010-08-29T23:11:00Z

I’ve spent a lifetime navigating the contradictions of that love, grappling with the pleasures movies offer with the misogyny that too often has informed what happened behind the camera and what is onscreen. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

There are these pieces of our lives that refuse to fit together, and yet we try to make them fit anyway, or we live with the contradictions. Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Theater, the art form which gave us the very notion of “suspension of disbelief,” specializes in such moments of contradiction. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

In developing this theme, especially as it applies to World War II and the Holocaust, Sebald’s work was comfortable with contradictions. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

Any observer of urban policing will note a sharp contradiction. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The lawyer also pressed her over what he said were inconsistencies and contradictions between her accounts to church officials and police in the months that followed the 2003 incident, and her testimony Tuesday. Actor Masterson’s ex says she had to pull hair to stop rape 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

And even if we admit to several concurrent lines of thoughts in different countries, how do we account for the vast contradictions within them – is there common ground between, say, Rousseau and La Mettrie? The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z

But throughout each episode, Youssef carefully peels back the two-dimensional characters to reveal complex humans riddled with contradictions. Ramy: culture-clash comedy with a deeper message 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Any apparent contradictions in his efforts are also our own; his corpus is a messy synthesis of our modern way of seeing, which wears a disguise of materialism over a theological body. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

“I don’t think there is a great fiction that is not an essential contradiction of the world as it is,” he said. Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2010-10-07T13:15:00Z

Quatro’s protagonist is genuinely at a loss over the contradictions of her specifically Christian body, one that is both devout and also full of appetite. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Isaacson, whose other books include biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, uses anecdotes from friends, family, colleagues and adversaries to illustrate sometimes deep contradictions in Jobs. 'Steve Jobs' delves deep into complex man's life 2011-10-24T13:43:50Z

That is, until the subject cropped up again and again, and I found myself preoccupied with an odd contradiction: as women act out ecstasy, they devalue their actual sensations. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

If Finn is considering a “Smile” sequel that traffics in such inherent contradictions, it sounds like he might already have an idea, and it starts with a snapshot. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

The melding of pleasure and horror it can elicit would have delighted Georges Bataille, the radical philosopher for whom “truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.” Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Gregg’s interest in contradiction and her remarkable gift for lyric tension emerge as early as “The Beckett Kit” and “Goethe’s Death Mask,” which both slyly interrogate the relationship of artistic composition to violence and suffering. Linda Gregg in The New Yorker 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Scriptures historically were infused with contradiction and mystery, intertwined with ritual and music, to offer glimpses of deep truths and often to promote ethical behavior. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Too often, the public conversation around Cosby — and around other artists who have fallen into various forms of disgrace — labors to fix these contradictions. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Fractured and Ferocious A “reform of the Curia” is probably a contradiction in terms. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

Both collections speak to the tensions, desires and contradictions in the culture. Nothing says subversive fashion like scowling models with greasy hair 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

At 28, Ms. Lázaro is as effervescent as her wit is sometimes morose, and she sees no contradiction in that. A Playwright Who Puts Her Demons, and Family, to Work 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

There’s hardly a contradiction between her sense of spiritual purity and her use of advanced tech: The synth is beams of sunlight, it’s baths of seawater, it’s a passageway beyond all matter. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

These musicians, under Mr. Gergiev, put you in a mind-set where you just went along with the contradictions and strangeness, rather than trying to make sense of it all. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Dre is caught in the contradiction felt by parents throughout the ages: They want a better life for their children, but not at the price of historical amnesia. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

These contradictions make her excellent company on the page. Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The novel embraces the contradictions of our character with a skillful hand, guiding the reader forward with “a sensation of floating — like one who’s being carried down a wide river on a warm summer day.” Review | Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Frecknall recalled bonding with Mescal over the different shades of a character who “lives in the contradictions,” the director said in a phone interview. Paul Mescal Has Been Working Things Out 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

This sort of contradiction—the affinity toward both life and death—runs through much of Tsushima’s work, and it tends to invite a biographical reading of her books. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

He is as likely to spot a contradiction in his own thinking, saying something like, “You are going to catch me here, but who cares?” The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian 2013-08-14T22:21:17Z

It is here that the idiosyncrasies and contradictions of the city reveal themselves, and the real magic of Naples is to be discovered. Elena Ferrante's Naples – a photo essay 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Directed with a light touch and a strong hand by Jonathan Silverstein, the play itself is a sort of contradiction. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z

Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society and a critic of the project, said that there is a contradiction in Issa’s position and that of other commissioners who called Thursday’s revisions “forward progress.” Revisions unveiled for Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial design; Issa voices support

You can see that I am incredibly sympathetic to the family, but I deliberately include their human complexities and contradictions.” ‘The Imposter’ and a Sense of Balance 2012-07-06T14:30:00Z

The difference is that novelists are interested in narratives that mirror life, narratives that express conflicting empathies, that express the contradictions of what it means to be human, that express emotions, psychology. Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist 2011-08-26T19:11:21Z

The best self-help books recognize that acceptance is multifaceted, and that it’s no contradiction whatsoever to accept yourself, as you are today, while accepting the possibility that you can become someone new tomorrow. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

This is an ancient institution operating at the heart of a supposed democracy - not drawing attention to these contradictions is central to its survival. Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview: why "royal confessionals" threaten the monarchy 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Orange, 36, seems at home with those sorts of paradoxes and contradictions. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

As such, it encounters an obvious contradiction, one that bothered the 10-year-old Lego maven who accompanied me to the press screening. Movie Review: ‘The Lego Movie’ Toys With Thinking Outside the Manual 2014-02-06T13:00:01Z

The subject of the biography himself was torn by contradictions. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

Deeply personal and shot through with fascinating contradictions, “The Disappearance of My Mother” is a portrait of a woman in rebellion. Sundance Documentaries Expose Truths, Both Glorious and Bitter 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

"I find him to be a fascinating bundle of contradictions," says 40-year-old Ratner, "in terms of the joyousness of the latter half of his career and the darkness of his early experiences." Debut author: Austin Ratner 2012-07-14T23:08:29Z

As the protests died down in 2012, there was no contradiction for them in returning to their regular lives and finding nothing about the regime objectionable. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Nudity and purity, sensuality and innocence, grace and spontaneity — we made contradictions of them,” he said in 1995. David Hamilton, Photographer Known for Nude Images of Girls, Dies at 83 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Its most hellish aspect is a twofold, self-reinforcing contradiction: you know that you could leave at any time and you know that you will not. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

It is a place of paradox and contradiction. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a contradiction there, but contradictions troubled Burt Reynolds about as much as roadblocks bothered Bandit. Burt Reynolds: A Star With the Pedal to the Metal 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

This contradiction — dare I say irony? — is at the root of Mr. Lucas’s enduringly original sensibility. Theater Review: In ‘Ode to Joy,’ Characters Are Bonded by Addictions 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z

The contradictions alone were fascinating: She could seem demure yet seductive, aristocratic yet bawdy. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z

“It was not one dominant attribute but the anarchic coexistence, in one petite, sweetly brazen figure, of a seeming mass of bewitching, opalescent contradictions,” Riley writes. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z

No, he’s just making sense of his own contradictions like everybody else does. Here Are the Best Albums of 2015 So Far 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

He sounds confident in his contradictions, and it’s disconcerting. Drake, 'Nothing Was the Same' review 2013-09-23T02:13:00Z

But "Paris in Love" is the most direct contradiction to that biting "South Park" vanishing pet satire and the tabloid tut-tutting surrounding Tinkerbell's demotion. Paris Hilton is her own purse dog – why even the socialite struggles with her engineered image 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

And, in complete contradiction to published reports, several called the police. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The art he made for himself happens to explain a generation he’s not even part of, but Burnham is comfortable with contradiction. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

This contradiction in terms has preoccupied artists for millenniums. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

They exist for the sake of contradiction and complication. Amir Nikravan paintings at home in intellectualized hall of mirrors 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

At this point in her life, Diana is an uneasy contradiction, both hardened and more vulnerable than ever. Venice Film Festival: How Does Kristen Stewart Play Princess Diana? 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

There are basic contradictions between what politicians and policymakers say and what they do, but also at the core of the national identity. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

His main intention — and his great achievement, as well as Mr. Jordan’s — is to make Oscar a fully human presence, to pay him the respect of acknowledging his complexities and contradictions. Movie Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ Is Based on the Story of Oscar Grant III 2013-07-11T20:41:12Z

More somber, and even more naked, was Loh’s July/August 2009 column on the contradictions of contemporary marriage, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off:” Sadly, and to my horror, I am divorcing. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

The juxtaposition of asceticism and flamboyance reflects human contradictions far beyond Lancaster County. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a contradiction but she’s a small figure, despite her size, winkled into a banquette. Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Batman's political right turn 2012-07-22T17:29:01Z

He attentively constructs rich, human motivations and contradictions for his fictionalized renderings of John and Henry. The Gay Rights Movement Before the Gay Rights Movement 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Yet it remains true to his focus on veiled appearances and human contradictions. Juliette Binoche's Tuscan Romance 2010-05-17T12:00:00Z

The occasional clunks and contradictions of this intriguing hybrid building aptly reflect the internal struggles that all similar institutions are currently facing. Inside the Royal College of Art's 'swanky arts factory' 2012-11-13T14:48:27Z

Besides, there’s something fascinating about the unresolved tension in Carnegie’s book, a contradiction that runs straight through American culture. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

One product of these various collaborations is that the album really embraces a sense of contradiction, even more than your work usually does. Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

For a biographer, such contradictions present an opportunity to depict a round character, in E.M. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The opening music captures the contradiction perfectly: it blends the stirring chords of “The West Wing” with the schmaltz of the “Dynasty” theme. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

I should probably add that I’m fully aware of the contradiction between this answer and my riff about “The Magic Mountain.” Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

I found that such a disgusting contradiction, I couldn’t let him get away with it. The pleasure revolution: the sex women really want 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

If some people see an element of contradiction between his work, says Ito, all the better. Paulo Ito's goal: Catch Brazil's mood 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

In response, Bloom said she saw no contradiction between her position and her mother’s. Lawyer Lisa Bloom quits advisory role with Harvey Weinstein and hints at “agreement” 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Instead of pushing to resolve conflicts or simplify contradictions, it asks us to examine how we live by walking for a while in someone else’s shoes and feeling how they no longer fit. ‘Down With the King’ Review: A Rapper in the Wilderness 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Describing herself as a “critic of feminism”, Scaraffia is not without her contradictions. The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

I read “cutting greens” as a way to understand my bid and all its contradictions. In Praise of Lucille Clifton 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The central mystery in “Blood Grove” — as in all the Easy Rawlins books — is as much about the brazen contradictions of American society as it is about what happened in that orange grove one night. Review | Walter Mosley’s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her playing keeps getting bigger, showing no contradiction between tradition and risk; it teaches as it challenges. Geri Allen Shares Jazz at the Stone and in Class 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“The Venerable W.” begins by digging a little into the contradiction of Buddhist hate-mongering. ‘The Venerable W.’ Review: A Buddhist Monk Preaches Hate 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The Hebrew Bible repeatedly has God ordering genocides, as of the Amalekites; and the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains contradictions with no neat unifying message. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

"So it was this idea of these two contradictions but then I wanted it to also be about the joy of fashion and the joy of this industry," he said. London designers look to botany, nature for inspiration 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

She also articulated many of the same frustrated contradictions that Cobain had. I'm still a member of Prozac Nation: Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel and her life-changing book 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The contradictions baked into her job disorient the pilot morally and physically. Combat via video screen and its emotional toll 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

“All the possibilities and contradictions are enormous. A film about human beings, if you’re lucky, you’re going to get, like, a sliver.” Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Mills on sincerity in ‘C’mon C’mon’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

We attend the theatre to encounter magnetic, ambivalent people who seem to embody our own contradictions. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z

Milan is a city of contradictions, home to both Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and plenty of striking modern architecture. In Transit: Q&A: Making the Most of an Evening in Milan 2011-07-05T22:14:06Z

This is one of what Abumrad describes as “an absolute smorgasbord of contradictions that are somehow cohesive.” With podcasts, specials and a Netflix show, it’s Dolly Parton’s world and we’re all just living in it 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

It is a perpetual contradiction of the music world that its mainstream so eagerly embraces mavericks. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

To her, their reflexive focus on Washington’s stereotypical masculinity means that they neglect other things that are more important: his shortcomings and contradictions, the textures of 18th-century life. What the History Books Won’t Tell You About George Washington 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

How did you square some of her contradictions? Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diaries 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

It's one of the great cliches of travel writing: flick through any city guide and you'll most likely find your destination branded a "city of contradictions". Slackistan or City of Fear: which is the real Islamabad? 2010-11-22T13:09:00Z

But I also dissected our own religion and its contradictions. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z

“In this work, Miyazaki highlights some of the contradictions that lie at the heart of warfare,” Ms. Napier said in an interview. Acclaimed Japanese Animation Director Puts Down Pencil 2013-09-06T11:02:29Z

When she watched “Loveless,” Zvyagintsev’s 2017 film about a divorcing couple, Coel realized the director was telling the same story of internal contradictions as in “Leviathan,” but in a different way. How Michaela Coel Shaped ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

It is a contradiction: you are forced into a situation you don't want to be in. "It's time for change": New Orleans' Big Freedia on working against gun violence in new documentary 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Certainly, Ms. Murphy is one — yet what woman today more completely illustrates the contradictions of “American” and “ballerina”? U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z

Unlike most fiction writers, Mr. Bradshaw never attempts to reconcile the contradictions of personality. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

MacBain describes a lifetime of squelching doubts, going back to her adolescence, when she noticed the internal contradictions in the Bible. 5 religious leaders who became outspoken atheists 2013-03-27T12:44:00Z

In “he his own mythical beast,” the choreographer David Thomson offers what he calls “a meditation on the mythologies and contradictions of identity, race, gender and the black body in postmodern American culture.” Dance in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Pistol,” as a series, is something of a contradiction. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Not only does Ohayon's contradiction present a myopic view of the multifaceted pole community, it also perpetuates stigmas about sex work being shameful and always derived from trauma and abuse. Netflix's pole dance therapy film "Strip Down, Rise Up" exploits trauma & is fixated on male gaze 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Alas, Promised Land offers no wiggle room, no ambiguities, eccentricities or human contradictions to its characters; they are placards with famous faces. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z

Elissa is a teenage contradiction — an open-faced, openhearted girl who seems to tell her mother everything, yet who remains in a state of revolt against Mom. 'House at the End of the Street': Lawrence not afraid of being scared 2012-09-21T17:12:04Z

“The truth is that this man was very, very tormented, and he was full of contradiction,” Mr. Cross said. With ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ Brett Morgen Demythologizes a Legend 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In any case, the play draws its big energy and explosive humor from such contradictions. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The national narrative becomes a reel of explosions and contradictions with no thread. The New Reality of TV: All Trump, All the Time 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a contradiction, in other words, and a tough one even by the standards of Minaj’s career, which is both impressive and impressively torn. Review: Nicki Minaj Reinvents Herself on Personal The Pinkprint 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Barnett muses on the contradiction of how, in one performance, she might be “vivid and alive” and in the next “distant,” even though she’s going through the same motions with each show. ‘Anonymous Club’ Review: The Joy of Creation 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The songs are not a set of solutions, and they don’t conclude with an acceptance of contradiction in human nature. Review: Anohni’s Declaration Against War 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

That tells you a little about Morris’s mixed emotions, but it only hints at the rich emotional contradictions of his dances — how they can be comic and tragic, playful and serious. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

An unguarded politician is a contradiction in terms, where oversharing is a comic's stock in trade: You take your darkest garbage and spread it around on the table for a laugh. Just a chat with your friendly neighborhood president 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

For instance, Bronx EcoAdventure may seem like a contradiction in terms, but the borough is 24 percent parkland, according to Doris Quinones, the council’s executive director. Rediscovering the Natural Side of the Bronx 2010-10-07T21:58:00Z

The contradiction in tones between Ford’s live testimony and Kavanaugh’s, however, may prove to be a turning point in the discussion about believing women. From Clarence Thomas to Brett Kavanaugh: the view of history and her story, as seen on TV 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

As someone who is not a tourist in the country music world, however, I don't see Lynn as a contradiction in any way. Loretta Lynn's music: That's how the Republican women I grew up with talked (behind men's backs) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The brasses particularly produced Mahler’s often startlingly bitter punctuating chords with an impact that clarified the drama Mr. Harding finds in Mahler’s contradictions. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z

One longs for deliverance from the contradictions, but there is none. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The contradiction at the heart of many self-help books is that you’re supposed to accept yourself more while simultaneously changing to create a better you. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

He acknowledges that he has his own philosophical contradictions to deal with. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

In the book’s epilogue, Lamster describes Johnson as a “man of contradictions.” Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

His aura of confidence never wavers even when he's caught in a contradiction, and his low-key authoritative manner soothes his followers into doing his bidding. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

If anyone has the license to embrace political contradiction, it is she. Troubled Turf: The Photographs of An-My Le 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

He struggles to understand her shape-shifting behavior, often pointing out contradictions within her personal narrative. Jamie Brisick describes Peter Drouyn's journey to 'Becoming Westerly' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s not even a little bit surprising that you’re grappling with the contradictions between your genuinely felt feminist values and your deep desire to be “every man’s dream girl.” I’m in Love. But I Still Crave the Attention of Other Men. 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

“When I first heard about her, I was like, ‘a black Shaker!’ — that’s the biggest contradiction I’ve ever heard,” he said. Take Me to Church and Let Me Dance 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Those towns were also zones of contradiction and latent conflict. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of Thug Life and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Was that a contradiction, that you had parents who were part of this downtown intelligentsia? Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

“High Flying Bird” swoops and cuts through the contradictions of modern culture with the fleet momentum of a power forward destroying a flat-footed defense on his way to the hoop. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“They are not contradictions, but an invitation for a union. Good and bad, strong and weak are present in...everyone.” Prada contrasts two sides of romance at Milan Fashion Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Because that’s what South of the Border is: a bizarre perspective on America and its contradictions. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

And when a subtitle claims, “I was tormented by adverse reactions to my appearance,” even as you watch her deliberately provoking responses, the contradiction seems designed to underline the deceptiveness of the medium. Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Those are the first of many observations and contradictions. Poets reflect on Ferguson, Obama, war and matters of the heart 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

His work wilfully blurs the line between reportage and art, with all the underlying contradictions that suggests. Luc Delahaye wins the 2012 Prix Pictet award 2012-10-09T18:00:02Z

The vignettes explore race in America; Green described it as “nothing less than a spiritual portrait of Black American life right now, with all its terrors, hopes and contradictions.” Imagining an Exodus: ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ to Take Flight on Broadway 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

It was perhaps the first time that I tried to understand what I didn’t even realize at the time were cultural contradictions around sex. Monica was our sex-ed teacher 2014-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the release of her last album, Beyoncé incorporated her every contradiction into her art. Jay Z and Beyoncé Are All Things to All People on HBO's On The Run 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Neither view is completely wrong, and the opera’s contradictions leave things open. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

He was a walking sack of contradictions, in some ways the archetypal writer of the shifting and migratory 20th century. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

We may disagree passionately, but what we need to recognise is that it is the free flow of opinion and contradiction that is the cultural achievement. The exciting absence of certainty 2011-01-20T17:52:41Z

“Act 1. The Younger living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being,” Sam reads. Pamela Adlon takes the plunge: Discovering even "Better Things" ahead 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Born three years apart — and both into affluence, though of varying degrees —the two men were rife in contradiction, yet consistently on the side of the disenfranchised. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Even the splendidly arrayed Ottoman soldier posed in triumph over the city at the upper right thrums with religious and political contradictions. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Goulian is, by his own account, a hot mess of contradiction. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z

The movie operates mainly as a comedy of postmodern manners, poking at the unexamined sensitivities and tiny contradictions that are part of the daily rhythms of the character’s lives. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

As they meander through poor neighborhoods and fancy parties, sampling hedonism, idealism and cruel cynicism, the viewer catches glimpses of a society seething with contradictions and half-buried class conflict. Review: ‘Güeros’ Amid the Mexican Student Protests of 1999 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Start with black Americans, who used the occasion to underscore the contradiction between the country’s principles and practices. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a dark postscript, a reminder that growing up doesn’t resolve youth’s contradictions; it brings sorrows of its own. With ‘Songs of Innocence,’ U2 Recasts Its Youth 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the end, the open-air prison of the tsarist autocracy collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. Prison without a roof 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Bono sings about self-questioning and contradictions with a voice that might scratch or falter but pushes ahead, unabashedly working itself up to shouts and howls. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Whatever his motive, Snowden found a way to arbitrage that contradiction. Is Edward Snowden a Spy? A New Book Calls Him One. 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The human side of the equation mostly adds up, though, and Laurie nails the contradictions of Laurence, who tries kindness on for size but only to see whether it fits with his consuming ambition. Review: Hugh Laurie Plays a Politician Trying to Avoid Cancellation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

In South Africa today, Mandela’s legacy is characterized by one central contradiction. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z

But she sees no contradiction in her oddball trajectory. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z

Her first short-story collection, “Grand Union,” is a soup of contradictions served up with flair. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

He's a rich mix of contradictions, like many of us. Why I'd like to be … Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

But Hedges is a bit of a contradiction. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z

A state that has for many years relied on tourism harbors a contradiction at its core: An extremely insular place, Maine depends on the curiosity of outsiders. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Then I read it, and I discovered it was this manipulative pirate and a character so full of colors and contrasts and contradictions. Sea Cruz: Pirate Penelope finds Depp a jolly mate 2011-05-11T15:01:06Z

There were contradictions in his character, flaws and conflicts even, which he wrote about with self-knowledge. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z

In America there is a deep tension and contradiction along the color line. Losing “Hap and Leonard” in the Trump age: “This show was an inoculation for some people” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

“She’s compellingly made up of contradictions: child and woman, vulnerable and audacious, naïve and voluptuous,” he observed. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The challenges of capturing the magic of Sinatra’s art and the contradictions of his life are daunting. Review: ‘Sinatra: The Chairman,’ His World, His Way 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Or as Spall put it, “There’s a contradiction between a slightly brutish man and an amazing visual genius. That’s something worth investigating.” Cannes: Timothy Spall a grunt no more in Mike Leigh's 'Mr. Turner' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Right-wing populists don’t shy away from either side of the dichotomy; instead they gain credibility by openly embracing the contradictions. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Not because the filmmakers offer visions of consensus, but precisely because each one digs deep into the conflicts and contradictions that run through every neighborhood, household and individual heart. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

After contradictions in his account, he eventually conceded he’d stabbed himself. Upsides, downsides for Smollett, city in looming fines fight 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The latest example of the right-wing contradiction between sentimentality and substance is country singer Jason Aldean's statement that he is a "proud American." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

Just like in a dream, Kevin keeps finding himself trapped by the contradictions of this mirror universe. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Working from a script that he rewrote, Chandor struggles to make the story’s contradictions gel. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Asked about this seeming contradiction, she said she was responding to demand. Stretch: Rebel Yoga 2011-01-22T01:50:05Z

It is full of contradictions, inconsistencies and nuances. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z

It’s a fair question given the very term “urban camping” presents a facade of contradiction. Above the streets, beneath the stars: why you should try urban rooftop camping 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

De Castro offers an explanation for the contradiction. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Like all artists, her flaws are intertwined with her strengths; she embraces complexity and contradiction. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Paik found elegant ways to articulate this apparent contradiction, in the process reminding us that tensions between technology and spiritual life predate the Internet. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

She continues to seem caught in those contradictions. Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Photography, which taps into a similar predicament, demonstrates that this was no contradiction. Review | It’s time we looked at Iran through the same lens as its best photographers 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

That was his personal contradiction, but what he made, and what he left, was a charming vision of otherness, a compendium of how to live and dream of perfection. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

That sounds like a contradiction and in many reasonable people’s minds it is one, but Zuckerberg thinks of it more as a “tricky calculus” of balancing no speech vs. most speech. Speech Is Never Completely Free: Reflections From Zuckerberg And The Pope 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But basically, her character allows no room for the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of which convincing portraiture are made. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

This constant training causes young wrestlers to look haggard but phenomenally fit, a contradiction that the photographer Ben Lowy captures in his closeup portraits from the weekend’s events. The Faces of College Wrestlers 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In time she'll have her own Baltimore contradictions to reconcile, for better and for worse. Why I'm not raising my child in my old neighborhood — the one I said I'd never leave 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

Subtle contradictions emerge depending on the interpreter’s background and motive. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The center had to be the pope and the clergy and the exception of being human — like all human beings, characterized by weaknesses and strengths and their contradictions,” he said. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Few popular modern sculptors present so consistent a mind-eye contradiction as does Alexander Calder. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

That he worked in advertising even as he ridiculed it didn't seem a contradiction; in fact, one thing enhanced the other. Satirist Stan Freberg, ad man and comic, dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The meme revels in the contradiction between Jordan’s legendarily aggressive persona and his free-flowing tears. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Anna expressed strength and weakness, and while staying true to herself, joyfully embodied the contradictions of all that is feminine: hence charm and violence, gentleness and ferocity, folly and lucidity, courage and fragility. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

There's a certain degree of contradiction to some of his statements. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z

Given that his job is to bring down the system in which they live, there’s a bit of a contradiction there, and Elizabeth calls him on it. RECAP: The Americans Watch: Something Greater Than Yourself 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Yet when Morrissey does grant interviews, he’s an inimitable bundle of contradictions—confident and yet self-deprecating, coy but also brutally honest. Morrissey gives the most Morrissey interview possible to Larry King: “Obama—is he white inside? It’s a very logical question” 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Forman was one of the last of that wartime generation which saw no contradiction between "pop" and "posh", Coronation Street and Covent Garden. Denis Forman democratised television 2013-02-25T13:59:31Z

As the late scholar Shahab Ahmed writes in his book “What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic,” the “historical and human phenomenon that is Islam” for centuries tolerated contradiction and paradox. How Did Rumi Become One of Our Best-Selling Poets? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Vigorously played by Robert Wieckiewicz, he's an anti-Semite and a walking contradiction: a grouchy small-time thief who finds himself absurdly and almost accidentally playing the role of a lifesaver. Holocaust drama 'In Darkness': An unlikely hero rises from sewers 2012-03-08T21:59:06Z

Their stories were much harder to simplify, and their testimonies encouraged online observers to mob-solve the contradictions, as if we were watching a confusingly structured true-crime narrative. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Judging from “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” the best way to understand the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ’n’ roll” is through his contradictions. ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: The Nitty-Gritty Beyond ‘Tutti Frutti’ 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Yet, ultimately, an inherent contradiction trips up any spiritual walkabout: The divine supposedly transcends time and space, yet we seek it in very specific places and at very specific times. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z

Ms. Waller-Bridge relishes writing moments where women get thwacked, cartoon rake style, by the contradictions of feminism. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Will Make You Laugh So Hard It Hurts 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

West has always owned and owned up to his contradictions, and “Yeezus” is no exception, even as it tramples all in its path. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

Is there a contradiction in telling schools they will have more freedom, but also asserting that they will be "properly accountable"? Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z

Valentine laces her play with one of Shakespeare’s poems, but the drama’s strength is how clearly, especially in Edgar’s understated contradictions, it depicts this victim’s dilemma. Review | Churchill’s 1982 ‘Top Girls’ still stings in the Trump era 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Their current project, the 117-year-old house at 12th and Thomas, is a mess of contradictions. Could an art project in a 117-year-old house be a solution to homelessness? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

I imagine he wouldn’t mind them if they let the plays shine in all their contradictions and complexity. David Mamet Doesn’t Want to Hear From You. Do Other Playwrights? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Thailand increasingly exists as a place of contradictions, where ancient animism coexists alongside hyper-capitalist modernity. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But “Atlas Shrugged: Part I” is in many ways charmingly oblivious to its inherent contradictions and the fact that its capitalist titans appear to be squatting in old, abandoned “Dynasty” sets, eating food-court baked potatoes. | 'Atlas Shrugged: Part I': A Utopian Society Made Up of Business Moguls in Fedoras 2011-04-29T00:13:06Z

Given the many absurdities and contradictions in this story, it’s surprising that even young children would believe it. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

So I was wondering if you would care to address this apparent contradiction. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Is the ‘Doctor’ in or out? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

What makes “The Overstory” so fascinating is the way it talks to itself, responding to its own claims about the fate of the Earth with confirmation and contradiction. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps these very contradictions are part of the freedom she’s allowing herself. Review | What do women authors hope to gain by showing their weaknesses on the page? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Perhaps we can live it because it’s not unreasonable to wonder whether he was living with the contradictions himself. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

A model that combines rights and redistribution can save capitalism from its own contradiction, but capitalists cannot be trusted to save themselves. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

A refined performer, her solid point work was consistently airy -- that contradiction so difficult to master. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

It seems to embody the pitfalls and contradictions that come with critiquing the institution from within, and also the ways that an object can cut through critique and simply broadcast its thingness. Termite Art and the Modern Museum 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

California, 90420″ means to capture all these contradictions or simply does so with stoner felicity, I cannot say. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

This biography uncovers Jackson’s secret and haunting life and repositions her as a major artist whose fiction so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Yet for all the univocal pounding of a single official perspective, the movies—at least, the brief clips of them in Moeller’s documentary—offer surprising and enlightening moments of unintended internal contradiction. The Virtues of Screening “Forbidden” Films 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

For reasons that are partly temperamental and partly a matter of sheer bad timing, she’s caught up in an especially lethal set of contradictions involving her job and her race. ‘Black and Blue’ Review: A Cop Thriller for Our Age of Dread 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

"The main things that fire you up are primal," said Hartley, noting that his work explores the irreconcilable contradictions so often inherent in modern life. Cinefamily salutes indie director Hal Hartley, new film 'Ned Rifle' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But the work of Foote is usually as funny as it sad, without any sense of contradiction. Review: A Heartbreaker Returns in ‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Such contradictions are not foreign to the experience of more socially adjusted folks. Art Review: Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum 2010-05-13T21:51:00Z

Things like break down barriers, straddle disciplines, confuse categories, problematize identity, raise questions, suggest uncanny doublings or paradoxical contradictions — in short, the usual philosophical and aesthetic dance. Perspective | Venice Biennale: A vast, unwieldy, exhilarating spectacle 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, but if he is right, it would be a wonderful contradiction. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

He is trying to overcome the classic contradiction between the desire to preserve the old and the pressure to raise a building’s performance to contemporary standards. When a Star Architect Wants You Not to See His Work 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The sculptures embody contradiction, or rather an overarching simultaneity of interpretive possibilities. Biological? Botanical? The weird wonders of Ross Rudel's 'OO' sculptures 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

West was always a divided and divisive figure, cheerfully embodying many contradictions. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z

Walking its aisles was an occasion for serendipity, contradiction and surprise. Brand Bookshop to close after 29 years 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The seeming contradiction is just one of the many conundrums — and one of the most important lessons — of parenting. Motherlode: Gender Neutral Parenting 2011-05-09T16:15:19Z

Much of the movie involves his negotiating the complexities and contradictions embedded in the choice of conjunctions. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Valerie was and is a mess of contradictions and open questions, and a wide-open target for people’s projections about women and rage. ArtsBeat: A Sad and Remarkable Life: Breanne Fahs Talks About ‘Valerie Solanas’ 2014-04-23T21:34:55Z

No other role ever came close to offering the complex contradictions of Tony Soprano. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z

Furthering the contradiction: Backpage is both friend and foe to traffickers. Backpage sues Washington state 2012-06-05T11:00:00Z

Depending on your view, that blatant contradiction is cynical or just part of the fun. Viewing Party! Let’s all Watch ‘Jurassic Park’ 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

I, Tonya is especially successful when dealing with the central contradiction of Harding’s life. Margot Robbie: ‘I asked my girlfriends what they'd been through. And they were angry’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

In short, he embodied contradictions that haunt many of his films, in which criticism can sometimes be confused with reverence, or obsessive detail with tasteless excess. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Other pieces in the collection are about contradictions, about stripping familiar garments or fabrics of their ‘iconic’ image,” says Lauren. | Greg Lauren 2011-02-13T20:15:09Z

Yet those contradictions were among the reasons that Mr. Quinto and his colleagues backed the project. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z

The list of writers who have attempted to capture the city’s many beguiling contradictions is long and varied: Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Charles Bukowski, Eve Babitz. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Qatar’s gloss and grit speak to its broader contradictions. 5 Books to Read About Qatar Before the World Cup 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

They've tried to ignore the obvious contradictions between rival narratives of the creation story in the book of Genesis. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

A feminist lens might notice Oppenheimer's womanizing as a contradiction within the film. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

“I think he’s very aware of the contradiction.” Date Lab: She wanted him to ask more questions 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

The subtleties and contradictions of period costume are also explored. Hollywood drama takes starring role at V&A 2012-10-11T17:19:21Z

Ernest is a fascinating, thorny character, especially in the age of Marvel Manichaeism, and he’s rived by contradictions that he scarcely seems aware of. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Premieres at Cannes: First Reaction 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

It is a contradiction to exert such strict control over media while at the same time leaving an 8-year-old to socially fend for herself. Ask Amy: Daughter’s friend vetoes movie picks

At once tender and pitiless towards the contradictions of traditional Italian masculinity, I Vitelloni was a major influence on the young Martin Scorsese. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“I glimpsed that the upside-down woman and houses represented contradictions,” Lisette muses. Review: ‘Lisette’s List,’ by Susan Vreeland

There’s a contradiction there, and it suits her. Review: Holly Herndon, With Laptops, at the Wick 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

By the end of this magnificent drama, Mr. Butterworth has connected the contradictions with a skill that takes the breath away. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Declining to address this contradiction, Moon also ignores the unusual childhood and surprising beliefs described in Reddy’s 2006 memoir, never mind her artistic process. ‘I Am Woman’ Review: Singing Against Sexism 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Another contradiction emerges from a discussion of the red squirrel, which clings on in Scotland in the face of strong competition from its parvenu grey cousin. Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-03-15T17:42:01Z

Gabriel is aware of those contradictions, and also frustrated by them. Review: In ‘Gabriel and the Mountain,’ Recalling a Tragic Adventure 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Frustrated by the long waits, confusion and seeming contradictions of airport security? Panel for Better Air Travel Security 2010-03-17T16:29:00Z

But this also lends a note of contradiction to her statement of purpose. Can Fox News really change its belligerent stripes? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

The contradiction in that statement is why this pretty film is also a frustrating one. Review: In ‘Argentina,’ a Call to Save Traditions 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“He seemed to understand the contradictions in the character as well as his most fundamental purposes, and that’s a terrific mix,” Mr. Milch said. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z

That’s only one of the taut contradictions Ms. Ruple folds into the four large crisp compositions — frozen but vibrant — of this memorable solo presentation. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Comedian Jason Good, wrote about this seeming contradiction, using The Office as an example. High (Concept) Anxiety: Are Big Ideas Bad for TV? 2012-11-14T15:40:09Z

Say something that disrupts a White House account of anything, even if that account itself is full of contradictions? Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Those towers of female footwear that combine a plethora of complex contradictions: empowerment, vulnerability, sexual allure, femininity, subversion, fetishism. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z

And running throughout all that is a general theme, which is about the duality or contradiction or hypocrisy that has characterized so much of Irish society and Irish political life over that period. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Some of the familiar contradictions of 21st-century capitalism are magnified as Paul, a Gulliver gone native in Lilliput, eventually discovers. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The contradictions multiply until they seem to describe something larger than any one man. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

At first, it sounds like an unresolvable contradiction: a meal that will set you back $75, and which consists almost entirely of garbage. New York’s trendiest restaurant is serving you garbage (and it’s awesome) 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In 2010, Murawski’s lawyer finally heard back from Lewis, who, in apparent contradiction with earlier statements, insisted that he alone was preventing the release. ‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Applying a modern multistore strategy to a traditional, handmade product may seem a contradiction. A Baker’s Crusade: Rescuing the Famed French Boulangerie 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Another powerful song built around contradictions was “Poison and Wine,” a plaintive folk ballad by the Civil Wars, which Mr. Butz sang as a duet with Lauren Kennedy. Music Review: Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret at 54 Below 2012-08-06T22:54:10Z

The director Dana Adam Shapiro grapples with those contradictions in compelling fashion, transforming subject matter that could have been the target for snickering into a razor-sharp examination of a culture in flux. ‘Margaret,’ ‘American Animals’ and More Streaming Alternatives 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

When one begins to attempt to untangle the grand knot of American contradictions—to say nothing of our personal moral inconsistencies—one ends up very tired. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

And as such, it wouldn't be complete without some contradictions. "Ozzy changed everything": Film examines the tumultuous life & legacy of the Prince of Darkness 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

His jokes are finely engineered, and presented in an order to increase their contradictions, to add incongruities. The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

There were very few of his familiar gestures – the sideways look at the camera and so on – as he grappled with bare-faced arrogance and uncompromising contradiction. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z

There are some logical — and, I dare say, some ideological — contradictions here, and a more serious problem of tone. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Robert “embraced contradiction in ways that neither Jack nor Teddy wanted to or could,” Mr. Tye writes. From Bare Knuckles to Idealism in ‘Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

That’s an apparent contradiction that runs throughout “Studio Job: Mad House,” an exhibition of gaudy, cartoonish and technically impressive works by Studio Job at the Museum of Arts and Design. High-End Works Toying With Politically Loaded Signifiers 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

He’s an authoritative figure whose jealous torments and violent outbreaks are composed of telling contradictions and vividly dramatic points. Review: Dark Suspicions in Jumps and Gestures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the great strength of “The Twelve Lives” is that a reader comes away from it with a vivid sense of how Hitchcock ignited screen masterpieces with the fires of his inner discord and contradictions. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

The mistake was thinking that the two could be reconciled rather than admitting that some contradictions remain insoluble. Arts & Leisure: Conflicting Voices in Lars von Trier?s Words and Works 2011-09-21T16:24:21Z

In the time since then — surprise! — nobody has solved the problems of the justice system, or the inherent contradictions of law and order and human chaos. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“I say without fear of contradiction,” he said, “that the average citizen in the rural district is superior in intelligence, superior in morality, superior in self-government, to the average citizen in the great cities.” When SCOTUS still fixed things: What America looked like before the Warren Court 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a line that neatly sums up all of his many contradictions. Review: ‘Narcos’ Follows the Rise and Reign of Pablo Escobar 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

In her book, Ms. Haskell brilliantly articulated the contradictions that haunt the movies, with their dispiriting truths and transporting fictions. 2017 Was a Year of Reckoning in Hollywood. Will 2018 Be the Year of Change? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

There’s an obvious level of contradiction in a film by a white European radical that means to reflect the increasing self-awareness and political sophistication of ordinary Africans, even in conditions of endemic poverty and violence. Africa’s great awakening: Amid capitalist plunder and environmental catastrophe, a new consciousness rises 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Give her some interesting flaws: fears, weaknesses, internal contradictions and quirks. Top tips for writing a strong female hero: Moira Young 2012-08-15T10:15:25Z

When I interviewed him in 2018 and asked him about whether being Black had held back his career, he answered both yes and no, and he was not interested in cleaning up the contradiction. Sam Gilliam ‘Took a Step Most People Didn’t Understand Was Possible’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

He’s nearly entombed in facial makeup that obscures his own physiognomy — an actor’s landscape — while bringing to life Lyndon B. Johnson, a transitional, still-contentious figure of fascinating contradictions. Review: ‘LBJ’ Hides It Light Under a Bushel of Makeup 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Simkin is a peculiar set of contradictions: Often the way he spins and turns is so weightless as to be the wrong sort of facile. Late Into American Ballet Theater’s Fall Season, a Flowering 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Zoom zoom /"I don't wanna grow up: there's too much contradiction." The Sex Pistols' jubilee boat trip – a classic account 2012-05-29T11:41:16Z

He’s gone past contradiction, beyond tautology, into infallibility. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Children grow used to an alcoholic’s many contradictions. 'The smell of booze was part of the fabric of my childhood': the hidden victims of alcoholism 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

And Joe Casey’s lyrics — cryptic or blunt, spoken or crooned or snarled — confront all the dire contradictions of the present moment. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The spirit of that deliberate contradiction — of a formal space given over to seemingly informal performance, and of perceived disorder giving way to balance — pervades the installation. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I grew up in a racist environment. The contradictions of my parents being anarchists and yet living in a totally white neighborhood and having Black housekeepers come in.” Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s not a contradiction that Alaskans in general choose to spend much time contemplating. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z

Mr. Glawogger has also made fiction features, which, like his documentaries, accept the chaos and contradictions of human existence. A Look Inside the Films of Michael Glawogger 2012-04-13T17:45:00Z

Like many such health-and-fitness books, “Ballerina Body” demonstrates the contradictions in entreaties about how easy it is to remake our bodies into the conventional ideal if we just work harder at it. Misty Copeland’s new book offers advice — and perhaps false hope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The job of finessing this contradiction falls mainly to Mr. Carell, who rises to the task by finding a new, or at least newish, way to be at once creepy, endearing, obnoxious and forgiving. | 'Dinner for Schmucks': Steve Carell Stars in ?Dinner Game? Remake 2010-07-29T16:26:00Z

The point is, or should be, to use humor to expose people’s frailties and contradictions to themselves, and to elucidate the processes of their lives: In this case, design, collection creation, what have you. Opening Ceremony: The Play Is Not the Thing 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Panahi, whose courage and honesty are beyond doubt, has made a movie that calls those very qualities into question, a movie about its own ethical limits and aesthetic contradictions. ‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Which Rationality? is driven in part by exposing the internal contradictions of Enlightenment moral philosophy. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z

Yet the world of “Maison Close” is so compelling, and so full of contradiction, that it’s nowhere near adequate to describe Hortense as its villain. “Maison Close”: Dive into 19th-century brothel life with this addictive French workplace drama 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

At first glance, animated documentaries may seem like a contradiction in terms. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Binge all eight episodes now or slowly take in the lush, meticulous backdrop that captures the contradiction of grim, postwar Paris and the world of haute couture. What’s on TV Friday: Ricky Gervais on Netflix and Revisiting Anna Nicole Smith 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Its contradictions, I suspect, reflect those of the “decolonial,” a concept that Attia invokes abundantly in the exhibition texts as well as in his past projects. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

So it makes sense that his psychogeographies — which when grouped together he hopes conjure the Qin Tomb terra-cotta warriors and horses in Xian, China — are blissfully shot through with contradictions. Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

As the first volume in a planned series, this journal reveals significant contradictions to Einstein's humanitarian and anti-racist legacy. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

He was his contradictions: the person in motion who seeks stillness; the monk who wants to belong to the world; the famous person who wants to be unknown. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

In almost every instance, the script and direction settle for the simplest, dullest explanation of its main characters’ behavior, even when that’s in direct contradiction of something mentioned earlier. “Mad Men’s” indecent proposal 2012-05-28T12:31:00Z

His has been a life of contradictions, and of bearing witness to his country’s history. A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

When the host points out the contradiction, Giuliani attempts to walk back his statement on the meeting’s intent. John Oliver: Rudy Giuliani is a 'one-man legal improv troupe' 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

I think we’re dealing with the same contradictions that everyone is. Exclusive First Listen: New Flobots Single “Sides” 2012-08-13T12:00:15Z

"The Talent Show," a group exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery, isn't so much about talent as unwitting performance and — a curious contradiction in terms — private performance. The Henry's 'The Talent Show' winks at the camera 2011-07-07T19:29:04Z

All these contradictions and reversals freight the artist’s gestural paintings with an infinite shadow of evocative self-consciousness. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The contradictions can too often lead to new forms of stereotyping and discrimination as both groups attempt to justify and maintain their institutional power. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But sheer power is not the only way to convey Norma’s torment and contradictions. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Her hybrid stage name already seemed to contain the contradiction that would shape her career: part manufactured Hollywood glamour, part Midwestern authenticity. DVDs: Five Movies With Kim Novak on DVD 2010-08-13T21:50:00Z

"And so it's a matter of allowing all of those contradictions to live and breathe." "The patriarchy will not shift": Cate Blanchett and Uzo Aduba discuss the "Mrs. America" gut punch 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

FOR the devoutly religious Mr. Vines — who is small-framed and pale with dark, narrow eyes — convincing people that there is no contradiction in being gay and homosexual has deep, personal roots. Matthew Vines Won’t Rest in Defending Gay Christians 2012-09-14T22:53:06Z

As long as we’re not breaking any scientific laws or introducing blatant contradictions, as a viewer I’m just here for the ride. Fusion? We’ve Seen This Movie Before. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a short course in the complexities and contradictions of life. Review: ‘A Monster Calls,’ Offering a Crucial Lifeline 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

It has diverse thinkers with their own internal contradictions. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

There's no denying the Shakespearean contradictions within Johnson's larger-than-life character, but his virtues and flaws aren't the sole determinants of the play's action. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

It also notes the cruel contradiction that at the very moment a dancer attains some knowledge and overview of the art, the body is already past its prime. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z

Veiel says he wanted to show the early Ensslin in all her contradictions, not just the tough militant and "Medea that coldly sacrifices her child" like in previous portrayals. Film casts new light on Germany's Red Army Fraction 2011-02-17T18:35:42Z

There is only intermittently a sense of how life is lived; only rules, obligations, heavy sighs and bitter contradictions. | 'When We Leave': When Two Cultures Collide Under One Roof 2011-01-27T23:45:37Z

Made in a Chinese factory out of recycled nylon and polyester fill, it’s also a collection of contradictions. Feeling Rich in the Yeezy Gap Jacket 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

I found her fascinating with all her contradictions. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

If so, Champagne has been producing more and more contradictions. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

One of the great contradictions of the Internet age is that the very technologies that allow people to connect in new ways also lead to some powerful forms of disconnection. 'Men, Women & Children' trailer: Jason Reitman on Internet-era angst 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's just another of her many contradictions. Reading group: a critical look at Travels with My Aunt 2012-06-29T09:33:50Z

From the work’s tangle of tensions and contradictions, a certain contrast of scale periodically comes into relief: between unfathomable devastation and the delicate strength of human life. Review: Ambition and Audacity From the School of Hard Knocks 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

But what distinguishes Mr. Akhtar’s novel is its generosity and its willingness to embrace the contradictions of its memorably idiosyncratic characters and the society they inhabit. Books of The Times: ?American Dervish? ? By Ayad Akhtar ? Review 2012-01-04T22:00:52Z

Naz puzzles at the contradiction while accepting the wisdom of it, even though both Calvin and Alison will treat him with hostility and, eventually, terrible betrayal. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 4: Friends or Foes 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Let me tell you why I admire Ruth so much. It’s because, like me, she’s a product of the history of our country. She’s full of contradictions—who isn’t in that place?” Border walls aren't about security — they're about preventing empathy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Other works tackle the contradictions of Switzerland and try to upend the picturesque. Art: Art Reaches New Heights in Alps 2014-01-31T17:50:24Z

New York designers have been harping on youth and playing Led Zeppelin, one of the funnier contradictions of Fashion Week. | Fashion Review: Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Theory - N.Y. Fashion Week 2011-09-15T03:49:48Z

But National Theatre boss Sir Nicholas Hytner said there was "a contradiction at the heart of her thinking". Arts 'must make economic case' 2013-04-24T13:22:30Z

He invited her to stay, since “Hope is what you’re walking away from. I embraced the contradiction. Maybe you could.” The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

It's also a fascinating – and if this isn't too much of a contradiction – enlightening book. The Kama Sutra's lessons for modern lovers 2011-02-14T11:31:31Z

A subtle and moving exploration of the boundaries and contradictions of ethnic identity shimmers through these tales like a melody. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Isn’t he already too familiar, the maker of such icons as “Liberty Leading the People,” which recall a bygone France full of contradiction, hypocrisy and self-conceit? Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

What better arena, then, in which to present the contradictions of adolescence, when athletic middle-schoolers fear rejection by their peers while loving the limelight? Figuring It Out: Two Novels About Ice Skating and Adolescence 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

Breasts are filled with contradictions and conflicting messages, but the more we can understand their complexity and appreciate that complexity, the healthier we’ll be down the road. A night at the vibrator museum 2012-05-20T00:00:00Z

“I will look at it at the time,” he said, in direct contradiction to what his vice presidential pick Mike Pence and his own daughter Ivanka said earlier. The Las Vegas Puppet Show: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s substantive final debate signals the show’s almost over 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“He has these great multitudes and contradictions” Eno, a close friend of his, said. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The projects expose a contradiction in Israeli society. Oscar contender on Palestinians angers many 2013-02-10T18:48:13Z

The subject is America in all its contradictions, but it's about looking deeper than Keef's recent music or the president's policy on the Middle East. Lupe Fiasco: 'I'm afraid Chicago is dying' 2012-10-03T19:18:00Z

The company has a potential contradiction at its heart. The cash-strapped ENO must take a long, hard look at itself 2013-01-18T12:32:13Z

I’m not exactly sure where that fits into the free market orthodoxy, but then again the contradictions in the philosophy far from end there. Charter schools and disaster capitalism 2013-02-24T13:00:00Z

Like Mark and Julia, Cassie is a contradiction: both punk and pedant. Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

It also traces the contradictions of an elite who are both worldly and provincial, and a calcified hierarchy determined by race, class and pedigree. New & Noteworthy, From Carrie Fisher to the Case for Impeachment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

A few weeks ago in this space, I brought up an apparent contradiction at the heart of American government, in current theory and practice. Yeah, the GOP is evil and will win — but the midterms are meaningless 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Grilled chicken It’s an odd contradiction that chicken stock is the flavour-packed base of so many foods, and yet we think chicken itself is relatively tasteless. Adam Liaw: five simple dishes, and the mistakes you’re making with them 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Hope portrayed in the biography is a complex man of deep contradictions. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

It makes for an intriguing glimpse into the contradictions of a country looking to its future but still tied to the past. A Time to Reap – review 2013-03-05T18:18:34Z

Growing to like her — and also, maybe, to be a little afraid of her — the viewer is trapped in a further contradiction. ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ Review: Son’s View of a Model Parent 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

A subtle and moving exploration of the boundaries and contradictions of ethnic identity shimmers through these stories like a melody. Story collections by Thomas McGuane, Luis Alberto Urrea and Graham Swift 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The video leaves you free to wonder about both the potential contradictions of activist pop and the queasy disjunction between moral concern and capitalist ambition. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ping Fu's memoir Bend Not Break faces mounting questions by experts over contradictions. Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z

That show, which had the run of the museum’s airy new Resnick Pavilion, had ample room to explore Smith’s contradictions. Art Review: ?David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-13T22:17:25Z

It captures the spirit of a fascinating line of architectural enquiry, and a contradiction inherent to futuristic design: no matter how apparently innovative they are, buildings retain powerful memories of past. The week in architecture 2011-07-15T11:31:31Z

Riffing on a Platonic notion of self, the musical revealed how anguishing the quest for self could be, exposing us through song and metaphor to all the contradictions in Hedwig’s tormented psyche.  Decades later, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is still bold and fresh 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Looked at from the right angle, the quirks and contradictions of Donna’s personality — the way she zigzags between entitlement and disappointment, laziness and ambition, wisdom and idiocy — illuminate an actual social condition. Jenny Slate Considers Abortion in ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The player’s body language becomes a spiral of contradictions, like someone keeping up dinner-table conversation while scanning the room for the waiter. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

His fearless embrace of contradiction gives “BlacKkKlansman” its velocity and heft. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

“I was interested in the contradiction between her personal charisma and its terrible consequences,” Greenfield says. 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

“I’m a man of contradictions,” Dylan sings, gently dragging the words across his 79-year-old throat. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Once and for All” embraces and emphasizes the contradictions of the developing mind, creating a vivid 3-D X-ray of the psyche in its formative years. 2010-01-11T08:06:00Z

This experience is also rife with contradictions, leaving him with more questions than answers. Review | Hulu’s ‘Ramy’ is a prime example of how a good dramedy can open up your world 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The contradiction lies in our culture, which supports both positions at the same time and hasn't sorted out a good way to mediate between them. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

Each one seems like a contradiction in terms: a black Audi parked in the nave, a bookcase at the foot of a column. Architectural appeal remains as Italy's deconsecrated churches rise again 2013-01-01T12:33:38Z

As such, a number of contradictions within the show are inevitable. What’s New for Stew? A Blues Fable Told in Story and Song 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Each is decorated with a single word on the wall intended to invoke the many contradictions of the place: “Freedom?” Suite with wifi and bars, sir? Dutch hotel offers hard cell 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

There’s a fundamental contradiction when artists document horror by creating work that transcends it. Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

As Davis' two very candid ex-wives and other folks who knew him introduce contradictions in Davis' statements, "2nd Chance" reveals more about a man who becomes more questionable the more he talks. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Stephanie Thomas, a consultant in Los Angeles and the creator of Cur8able.com, a fashion lifestyle blog about dressing with disabilities, is conscious of this contradiction. Why are there more clothing lines for dogs than disabled people? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

We as a species are full of contradictions. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The elegant writing is wonderfully rich as the poems explore the complexities and contradictions of interacting with loved ones and strangers. The best poetry books for January take on race, current events, love and loss 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The contradictions of what you want to do — and then doing the opposite. "Slalom" director on pushing limits & the abuse of a skier by her coach: "This film is about bodies" 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

The movie displayed early and incontrovertible evidence of the Gosling USP: an ability to hold a character’s contradictions and conflicts in view at all times. Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Budiansky’s playing down of the contradictions that make Holmes infuriating and interesting is particularly mystifying because he has dived into the sea of Holmes’s voluminous writings and even contributed to Holmes scholarship. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Each is decorated with a single word on the wall intended to invoke the many contradictions of the place: “Freedom?” Suite with wifi and bars, sir? Dutch hotel offers hard cell 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

And second, to argue that, if complexity can arise only in this way, there is no need of a complex God in the first place—in fact, it is a contradiction in terms. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z

They speak to us of true emotions, of contradictions and confusions, the murky intentions and effect of adult life. Kansas and the right to free expression 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Their words sometimes deepen the viewer’s appreciation of what is on screen, though at other times the nuances and contradictions of the past outstrip the didacticism of the commentary. | 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975': ?The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975? - Review 2011-09-08T22:17:49Z

Written at the height of his dramatic powers, The Crucible is one of the four great plays in which Miller's ever-present urge towards didacticism is tempered by a passionate fascination with human frailty and contradiction. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z

In this superb piece, he touches on the contradiction at the heart of Kaepernick’s presence in the United States. The top US opinion stories of 2017: critiquing a tumultuous year 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Q. A lot of your lyrics describe the contradictions in love relationships. A Word With: The Civil Wars: Talking to Joy Williams and John Paul White of the Civil Wars 2011-10-25T21:54:53Z

Early on in the biopic Walesa: Man of Hope, a character describes Lech Walesa as being "full of contradictions and surprises". Lech Walesa: 'I only fear God, and my wife' 2013-10-18T07:41:55Z

Chopra considers herself a feminist; you wonder whether she feels any contradiction, owing her career to a contest that judges women on their looks. Priyanka Chopra: ‘I’m not arrogant, I’m self-assured’ 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

But then people began to approach the Party with their "internal contradictions," as Comrade Venu puts it quaintly. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

It reflects a life lived beyond those confines, observing its contradictions and tiny heartbreaks. Perspective | Lynn Shelton had the audacity to tell her own stories on film. She will be missed. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

They do not see, as Okonkwo obviously does, a contradiction between the old man’s greatness in the realm of masculinity and his mutually dependent relationship with his wife. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z

We also like to look backward, to hash over the conflicts and contradictions of democracy at a historical remove. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Family comedy” might strike some as a contradiction in terms: Can you really amuse both children and grown-ups? Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jereissati says the new mall will represent the “beautiful contradictions” of modern luxury, “where fast meets slow, art meets commerce and high meets low.” IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z

I no longer live with the contradiction of fearing death while at the same time wanting to throw myself in front of oncoming traffic in order to stop that ever-present fear. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

In order for complications and contradictions to deepen a narrative rather than splinter it, they need to be woven together with incisive, sustained analysis. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

Tyler’s had a complex relationship to the L.G.B.T. community, rife with contradictions. Tyler, the Creator’s Fashion Statement 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The weaving of antithetical statements into paradox is masterly: the effect is neither playful nor literary but reveals the profound contradictions implicit in the human condition. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z

“The more I read, the more I thought it was an epic story and an intimate story, and one that embodies incredible contradictions.” Nathan Lane to Return to Broadway This Winter in ‘Pictures From Home’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yet the flux, the clashes, the contradictions seem to assemble into a fair facsimile of life at its most intense, in crisis mode, charged with sorrow and anger and perhaps even hope. | 'Alexis. A Greek Tragedy': ?Alexis. A Greek Tragedy,? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-05T22:36:26Z

She notes the contradiction and laughs: she has been explaining herself, under my orders, for the duration of the walk so far.  Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

There is always a paradox at the heart of character . . . some contradiction that ties the knot, holds two conflicting halves together . Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks ? review 2011-07-14T09:00:01Z

There’s an obvious contradiction in there, which is the band’s charm and its road ahead. Music Review: Muscling Through a Murky, Hardcore Night in a Box 2011-07-31T22:03:29Z

I don’t see one, personally, but to put it more expansively you could argue that Fonda’s life and career have embraced the contradictions of American womanhood across parts of two centuries. Jane Fonda: “I never was a hippie!” 2012-06-09T22:00:00Z

Laid out in four large unadorned frames, these images, whose title riffs on Eleanor Antin’s “Carving: A Traditional Sculpture,” confront the underlying contradictions in how gender is constructed and understood by mainstream culture. For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

He also does little to shed new light on such perennial topics as the contradictions in the American soul, torn between materialism and idealism, hedonism and puritanism, individuality and conformity. Books of The Times: ‘To America With Love,’ by. A. A. Gill 2013-08-21T22:17:14Z

Here Nicks appeared happy -- even relieved, perhaps -- to share the spotlight she grew accustomed to filling while McVie was away, and it was that sense of camaraderie that held Fleetwood Mac’s internal contradictions together. Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Robin, without critical commentary, displays Thomas’s many contradictions. How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

This is how I’ve come to terms with Marin, how I stopped worrying about its contradictions and simply appreciated it as is: I take it in little bites. T Magazine: Stranger Than Paradise 2013-05-10T21:59:01Z

“It’s a great contradiction, but today only 12 percent of Wittenbergers are Protestant.” A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

In the White House, Grant’s contradictions had public repercussions. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The notion of Santa as artisan, crafting gifts by hand in his workshop, helped resolve the contradictions introduced by consumerism in a society in which “thrift and restraint” were seen as virtues. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

But Nigel was a bundle of contradictions: he took many things seriously and railed fearlessly against religion, homophobia, bad hairstyles or whatever was topical that day. Nigel Charnock obituary 2012-08-07T14:06:41Z

Accept the gift with gratitude — and without contradiction. Perspective | Miss Manners: Grandma loathes mealtime battles 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Of course she signed up for what turned out to be a Verhoeven film through and through, vividly displaying the many contradictions that make his work fascinating. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Like most memoirs, Jones’s is concerned with the construction of identity—with how its narrator resolves or at least reconciles himself to his own contradictions, and with the masks he wears and sets aside. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Powerful music often contains a contradiction or an unlikeliness, and here the contradiction was the detail in the density. The Winter Jazzfest Marathon Unfolds 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

His many travails have clearly not dulled his mordant wit — “Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!” — or his inner turmoil. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“A History of My Brief Body” resists distillation, embracing instead the contradictions of triumphing over oppression by honoring joy and desire. Review | In ‘A History of My Brief Body,’ Billy-Ray Belcourt triumphs over oppression through lyric essays 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Richard Burger neatly navigates these contradictions in “Behind the Red Door: Sex in China,” showing how lust and prudishness, openness and repression, indecency and modesty can coexist in the People’s Republic. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Her output is the product of her own internal contradictions and struggles — as a socialist with a nagging disdain for luxury and as a businesswoman challenged by the vagaries of femininity. | Of Brains and Beauty 2013-05-31T23:08:23Z

Freddie is a lot of things and, like everybody, full of paradoxes and contradictions. For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

This was also one forte of “Breaking Bad”:  presenting humans who are complex enough to contain contradictory personalities that don’t seem like contradictions. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the biggest contradiction about Sevigny is that she inaugurated the modern It Girl paradigm yet also broke its main rule, by outlasting the scene that she originally personified. Chloë Sevigny at Forty 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

In his hands, this accidental president comes across as an amazing bundle of contradictions, someone who seems at once too vulgar for the job and just right for it. Review: Bryan Cranston Shines as Lyndon Johnson in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

In scenes in which Patti did little more than scribble a few words on a pad, Dowd made her a study in contradiction, wise and insane, loving and ruthless, tranquil and furious, and utterly distraught. Actress Ann Dowd is a revelation away from the ensemble pack 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

When he says the world is a place of contradictions, Labour's longest-serving prime minister is really talking about himself. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

She bent over a banana and spoke about the ending of her own “Little Women,” which rips open the contradictions between life and art and commerce and reveals them plainly onscreen. What Greta Gerwig Saw in ‘Little Women’: ‘Those Are My Girls’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

With Milanés’s passing, the contradictions of his life, and the juxtaposition of Cuba’s and Puerto Rico’s fates come into sharper focus. The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The biggest contradiction may be: How can a generation whose cultural trademark is a refusal to grow up have a midlife crisis? Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

Instead the collection achieved a fine coherence despite its obvious contradictions. Men’s Fashion Review: Gucci, Calvin Klein, Prada and More 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

In her novel, Soli plumbs the contradictions of a man who could massacre Native Americans while conducting an affair with an Indian woman, Monahsetah, a haughty spoil of war. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

“Onstage she carries with her a whole bag of contradictions,” said the director Leigh Silverman, a frequent collaborator. Thirty Years Later, Heidi Schreck Has Some Amendments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Does she see a contradiction between her feminism and the films she has made? Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

I mean, what could be more an example of this sort of boundless capacity for contradiction for hypocrisy? An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Secrets to his teaching “He speaks in contradictions and koans. He’s always making jokes and puns directed at himself and others.” What a Group of Disciples Discovered Along the Way 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

On another level, Papa seems to have spent huge amounts of time trying to square the contradictions in his spiritual and family life. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z

Taylor aims to explode popular myths about the Revolution, exposing Patriot contradictions and hypocrisies in his provocative, convincing account. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The movie opens at a costume party where Leila sports a niqab over a pink bikini, her cultural contradictions on brazen display. ‘The Persian Version’ Review: A Bumpy Road Out of Iran 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

The attraction may lie in the dance’s seeming contradictions. 2010-02-12T07:14:00Z

To acknowledge the world’s tendency to inflict fatal pain, yet to hold an optimistic belief that love conquers all, is the grand contradiction at the center of this searing, splendid film. War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift 2011-12-22T21:17:44Z

They’re all full of such contradictions, and you can tell they are enigmas to themselves. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Do people understand the inherent contradiction of all this? "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

He formulates nicely the fundamental contradiction in the ideal of "humanitarian war": "Modern warfare is itself the most radical negation of the rights of individuals, starting from the right to life." Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice | Book reviews 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

"She's so brilliantly detailed; all of her contradictions and flaws are so interestingly written that that's a great thing to be able to work from." A literary classic returns to the screen 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

That it may also be an example of those things is no contradiction. | 'A Serbian Film': Torture or Porn? No Need to Choose 2011-05-12T22:28:36Z

So is Cheung's second entrance, now in male garb, with a convincing swagger that conceals deep contradictions. In 'Takarazuka!!!,' coming of age in a blend of gender roles 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Then maybe they'll notice the fissures and contradictions, the hatefulness and downright cruelty in his version of the world. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

But it was no contradiction to a man who believed always that a healthy society required both public purpose and private initiative. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

The range of contradictions in American food is confounding. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Yet the reason I love a lot of it relates to its bizarre central contradiction. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z

“Athens seemed to be the place where contradictions meet: ‘the cradle of civilization’ affected by crisis and debt, its citizens enduring a lasting uncertainty as to their future,” Mr. Szymczyk said. In Athens, Austerity Makes Contemporary Art Palatable 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Vulture is a mess of prickly contradictions, only some of which seem intentional. Review: Spider-Man (Again) and All That Sticky Kid Stuff 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

“The central contradictions in ‘The Ancestor’ reside in the questions of who we are and where we belong — of what divides us and what unites us,” Carol Goodman writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

For a century, that’s been the odd contradiction in American popular culture. Halloween in 2020: Some fun with death and fear, anyone? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Even though obedience and curiosity would seem to be at odds with each other, Katharine — a bundle of contradictions herself — succeeded in inculcating her daughter with both traits. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The rest of the cast performs at the same high level of psychic contradiction. Review: ‘Fulfillment Center’ Finds the Poetry in Missed Connections 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Wallace emerges here as a mass of contradictions. Books of The Times: David Foster Wallace Biography by D. T. Max 2012-08-22T14:21:10Z

I'm like a lawyer in an argument, always finding contradictions. Claire Walker stands up to her stand-up comedian husband Ed Byrne with humour 2013-03-03T00:07:03Z

Though Rohan represents devout but enlightened Islam, there are contradictions in him that the book skips over. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-02-11T07:00:01Z

Still, McMurray delivers a thoughtful treatise on the most painful contradictions of black frat life, which celebrates brotherhood, scholarship, leadership and compassion but also perpetuates violence and disrespect. ‘Burning Sands’ tackles the camaraderie and contradictions of HBCU frat life 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Comic book heroes reflect the morals of our society; the antihero has become a symbol of our muddled ethics and the contradictions we embrace under the guise of justice. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Bloom sees no real dispute or contradiction between her and Allred. A famed feminist attorney sides with Harvey Weinstein in harassment case 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

If anything, the contradictions exposed by the trial have been heightened. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

As a younger man, I was not fully able to grasp the intricacies, the complications and contradictions, surrounding his suicide. Stacy Keach Had a Heart Attack Onstage. Now, the Show Goes On. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

“The Perfect Host” doesn’t bother to reconcile its contradictions. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z

“Michael complicates presence, identity and history. He exposes the ironies and contradictions of cultural-historical subjects.” Revisiting Michael Richards’s Art in the Age of Black Lives Matter 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

In a statement on Wednesday, the company called the incident “deeply unfortunate,” but said the Times story contained “numerous inaccuracies, misleading statements, contradictions and fundamental misunderstandings of the scope of the incident.” Musicians lament reported loss of recordings in decade-old... 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

This revelatory performance was a reminder of how strange, elusive and full of stark contradictions this score actually is. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

She was a lucid thinker in her nonfiction, curious and knowledgeable and reasonable, and in her fiction she showed a compassionate and moving familiarity with the contradictions of human beings. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Their contradictions mirror that of our writer’s: “I always sort of want to hate Marin,” he says. | Away We Go 2013-05-10T23:01:48Z

Danton is the showier role and Toby Stephens invests it with his own charisma and brings out the character's central contradiction: he both seeks to defy death and surrender to it. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z

What makes Maier so intriguing is the contradictions she embodies: career nanny; street photographer; proudly independent; mysteriously private. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Once cast in marble and bronze, our usable past has increasingly become packaged as mass entertainment, with all of the queasy contradictions that notion entails. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The exhausting contradictions of 2018, however, demand that women also express their anger immediately or forever hold their peace, lest they risk a round of "why did she wait so long to speak up?" She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Without speaking, she was asking all of us to hold the contradictions inherent to our distinctly American venture with great care. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Those persistent songs became the basis for “Beulah,” a romantic ode to Southern contradictions in life and love. John Paul White finds peace at home after Civil Wars breakup 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

His method, still unmatched, is suggestive, elliptical and completely comfortable with contradiction. Toil and trouble, and missed connections, in 'Macbeth' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Then again, Mr. Shechter, whose "Political Mother," opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday, is full of contradictions. ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Israeli-Born Choreographer Hofesh Shechter 2012-10-10T17:29:27Z

He’s not larger than life, but he thinks he is, and Driver’s performance is perfectly scaled to that contradiction. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Davies, whose work is exhibited in galleries in Paris, London and the Netherlands as well as at art fairs around the world, welcomes those contradictions. Photographer Ellie Davies plunges 'Into the Woods,' her eyes on the 'Stars' 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

The were remain by turns startling, disturbing and complex, imbued with all the contradictions he felt about Japan, photography, himself. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z

The rift in the Pilates community reflects a seeming contradiction in Mr. Pilates’s character. The Fight for the Soul of Pilates Moves From Instagram to Court 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

With its hard-to-reconcile juxtapositions of the beautiful and the grotesque, “The Salt of the Earth” embodies the contradictions of the documentary form itself. The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Despite being very passionate about certain things, her characters are nonetheless able to see the irony in things and live with contradiction in their lives,” said Mitzi Angel, FSG’s publisher and Ms. Rooney’s longtime editor. Beautiful Merch, Where Are You? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

But pointing out his lies, his contradictions, his illogical ideas, his nonsensical solutions—pointing out all of that, while noble and necessary work, is partly beside the point. The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

She has always cared deeply about not caring too much, a contradiction that has fueled her entire career but that has become increasingly tricky to sustain. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

It’s the contradiction that jars even more than the technology itself. Roma, Benny Hill style: why film-makers hate Netflix's fast-forward button 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Instead he just seemed inconsistently written, lacking the psychological connective tissue that allowed us to make sense of the huge contradictions in, for example, Seth Bullock on "Deadwood," another decent man with an explosive temper. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z

It will be fascinating to see what gold Harrison mines from the contradictions. A Mormon sleuth confronts an LGBT case in 'His Right Hand' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

But even with deference to Polonius’s senility, it’s a worthwhile exercise for contemporary audiences to remember that in the 17th century, it wasn’t a contradiction to celebrate truthfulness to oneself and meticulous attention to dress. At the Frick, clothes do make the man, and the woman 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

His speech is often full of apparent contradictions between his public and private lives. André Leon Talley’s Next Act 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Via Alex, Roth demonstrates the contradictions of racial liberalism; he manages to draw our attention to a real crack and malignancy in the Jewish American psyche. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

That unwieldy and deeply unorthodox arrangement contains a probably unsustainable legal contradiction. Review | ‘In Chocolate We Trust’: The bittersweet tale of Hershey’s philanthropy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The Pride That Went Before the Fall Published: September 23, 2010 Wall Street is a mess, a morass, a snarl of contradictions large and small — a magnet for envy and indignation, fear and worship. | 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': The Pride That Went Before the Fall 2010-09-23T16:10:00Z

This would seem to be a contradiction, but that is what this sort of writing does to you. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The heart of Mr. Johnson’s appeal lies in that apparent contradiction. A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

I see that in her women; they contain that contradiction. 11 Women on Phoebe Philo’s Céline Era 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

If there was a gentle contradiction between his music and his mien, there was also a set of complementary frictions within his band. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z

To me You is contradiction – intimidatingly technical and furiously simple. Now Listening: reader playlist 2012-08-02T16:23:19Z

“He’s a really cool mythological contradiction,” said Mr. Snyder, who is still boyish and scruffy at 47. ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z

Lewis’ performance was obviously great here; he makes palpable how Brody is quavering under the strain of his contradictions, as if that tension himself will make him explode. Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest 2011-12-19T13:28:04Z

Bell, in her artist statement on her website, says she is "inspired by moments of absurdity and contradiction as well as my own visceral experiences of place." Taking the mountain for a walk: Vaughn Bell's playful 'Thinking Caps' at Jack Straw in Seattle 2010-08-09T23:37:00Z

His career was full of highs and lows and he was full of contradictions, a very unstable, excessive character.’’ T Magazine: The Great Heap Forward 2010-10-12T16:04:00Z

Mr. Petty would continue exploring the subtle contradictions in America’s rock ’n’ roll fantasy life for the next four decades. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Gary Andrew Poole reviewed the original Las Vegas incarnation of the show for TIME.com, and found it a strange exercise in contradictions: “I’m really an animal, guys, I’m just dressed up nice.” Mike Tyson Bringing His Truth to Broadway 2012-06-19T16:15:49Z

The head spins with options, because Chekhov’s sly and subtle plays are awhirl with all these human contradictions, and beautifully so, when they work. Chekhov’s ‘Vanya’ rides again, with uncertain feeling 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the different languages, they might have two completely different personas, but there was no contradiction. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

As he demonstrated in “Joe College” and “Election,” he knows how to capture the hilarious contradictions of teenagers. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

A set of walking contradictions, Sandy announces that cellphones are off-limits but can’t stop texting. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

It is as if speaking to an "African" writer who responds in fluent French, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, English or any other European language, points to a contradiction. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z

There is a contradiction here: An ordinary fellow should not have to be quite so special to win our admiration. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z

The best track — perhaps in spite of itself — from “Britney Jean” is the one that fully showcased the star’s casual contradictions. Britney’s path to “Glory”: The pop survivor’s least-personal album is also her best in more than a decade 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

Where things are headed, with many suburbs ranking high in walkability and other public amenities once considered the province of cities, he doesn’t think it is a contradiction in terms. Welcome to suburbia: the millennials done with city life – and city prices 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The story embraces the contradiction that boxing can be by turns beautiful and horrifying. How to Throw Punches Without Getting Hurt 2011-02-25T14:52:59Z

Ms. Shechet’s art works in contradictions, like elegance and ugliness, to subvert traditions in arts and crafts. Spare Times for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Dream logic and contradictions abound in Kafka's work. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

He doesn't see a contradiction between the two. Playwright Mike Daisey looks for the core of Steve Jobs' Apple 2011-04-13T23:36:04Z

His cry his perfect word pitched against The baffled contradictions of the heart Wrestling them embracing them Strangling them with a jealous conjugal desperation. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The mere name of the exhibition, “Double Exposure,” holds the contradiction of Curtis and what he left in his wake — and the technology of photography itself. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Double Exposure’ and the negative/positive legacy of photographer Edward S. Curtis 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In other words, they are the perfect designers for this cultural moment, with all of its fractured politics and infuriating contradictions. Dolce and Gabbana are rich, extravagant and politically incorrect. You got a problem with that? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Given that sentiment, some may see a contradiction in the fact that about a third of Batsheva’s budget is covered by Israeli government funding. Ohad Naharin and Batsheva Come to BAM With ?Hora? 2012-03-02T23:55:14Z

Pryor brought the contradictions and ironies of racism and masculinity to mainstream attention with a rawness and honesty unseen before and unsurpassed since. Glenn Ligon takes apart a Richard Pryor performance 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

The ambiguity turns out to be more like a contradiction, a bending of the rules of perspective. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z

For its first two-thirds, though, this “Carousel” tingles with the rapture of life in all its contradictions. Review: A ‘Carousel’ That Spins on a Romantically Charged Axis 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Though she does ultimately find a way to the truth, for much of the novel she is a distant, perplexing character, one whose contradictions put her at a remove from everyone, including the reader. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s simply well balanced, with each actor colorfully putting forth self-interests and contradictions. Review | Two Irish comedies shine in the heart of the city 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Stritch was unapologetically a mass of contradictions, as irascible as she was soft, as frugal as she was generous. Elaine Stritch: All the best lines at this memorial were hers 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Into the Woods” is nothing if not about ambiguity and contradiction. Review | ‘Into the Woods’ is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. A delightful revival at Ford’s Theatre reminds you why. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Even as a woman, I notice this contradiction in myself. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

And perhaps there’s a touch of van Hove in its use of merciless simulcast video and the witty contradiction between text and action. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Memoir has long been used by female performers to reflect upon the pressures and contradictions of their roles. The World Needs Female Rock Critics 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

In a moment when the act of articulating identity seems both urgent and fraught, there’s something comforting about the expanse of contradictions delivered without an answer by this suddenly famous teen-ager from Jakarta. Rich Chigga and the Difficulties of Keeping It Real 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Opening with a negative and a contradiction, "Never have met me, know me well", the book is ruled by the classic lyric contradiction: total control expressing total lack of it. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z

I tried to help people to come to terms with these things but these contradictions between your value system and your desire are very difficult. Has Trump wrecked our sex life? "Post-Trump Sex Disorder" is real, says sex therapist 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Such apparent contradictions are a potent source of fascination. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

The contradiction of a drawing on top of a drawing replicates the slippage we have between the real world and the screen world. Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies' 2012-06-09T20:46:38Z

Many are artistically brilliant, because pop thrives on contradiction and tension. What makes a great protest song? 2011-02-16T08:00:06Z

“Becoming a Man” is a book that could easily span several books, but its ambition is to be all-encompassing, to lay all of its contradictions in one space and see what complicated truths arise. After Living as a Woman for Decades, He Staged His Own Gender Reveal 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Sally’s strength is capturing all of the complexities and contradictions of family, and I think that’s what people can really tap in to.” In Its Final Season, ‘Happy Valley’ Grapples With Healing 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Spagna’s book, which interlaces the story of the Timbisha with that of the Mountain Maidu tribe, in Washington State, meditates on the contradictions inherent in the idea of “reclamation.” The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

“We were looking for a specific combination of contradictions: Someone that can be funny and quirky, and violent and rough,” Druckmann, who also led development of the game, said in a phone interview. In ‘The Last of Us,’ Bella Ramsey Might Save the World 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

That Mr. Ridley is also a writer of uncommon, lyrical delicacy may sound like a contradiction. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

But Queen is frustrated by her contradictions and evasions. Review: In ‘Horseplay,’ a Terrible Actress Becomes Her Era’s Kim Kardashian 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

But others may take the opposite stance, seeing it as an assertion of a tradition comfortable with contradiction and engaged with the world. Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

I don't see any contradiction between those two aims and because we have excellent people working on both projects, I think that's something we can pull off. Mantel 'excited' by adaptations of her novels 2013-01-07T11:48:10Z

The contradictions of Cannes were evident on Sunday morning when I sat down with the Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke to talk about his latest feature, “A Touch of Sin.” Critic’s Notebook: Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Is Popular at Cannes 2013-05-19T20:30:52Z

His realism and regionalism provoked feelings of pride and pain; his art gave expression to the contradiction of the ordinary life in all of its glory, tragedy and, on most days, tedium. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of the largest questions, and imbuing meaning onto the dumbest, most profane parts of humanity. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Jacobi stressed Lear's split-second contradictions; Hicks takes a more linear approach, showing the character's journey towards a painfully acquired humanity. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z

The two actors work in a counterpoint that expresses not only the diverging temperaments of the men they are playing but also some of the contradictions of their era. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

Research is still being done to better understand the nuances of this seeming contradiction. Perspective | What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

More often than not, invoking “The Godfather” is a way of pointing out what the social critic Daniel Bell called the cultural contradictions of capitalism. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Those contradictions have only multiplied, and the fantasy of an audience united in derision against unsmiling authority has tangled and frayed. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Simone de Beauvoir must be twisting in her chignon, for she understood sexual politcs and its contradictions. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z

You find yourself hearing contradictions in every other sentence spoken, and you laugh at the precisely rendered illogic. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z

He's skewering some all-too familiar human contradictions — i.e., how we can justify loving cats while despising people. 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore': Brutal slapstick, with a clear message 2010-10-25T23:39:00Z

And even a movie that drives itself crazy with the internal contradictions of its big ideas is preferable to one that just lies there feet up, like a dog taking a nap. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z

This play, like its predecessors, “keeps circling around these questions of identity and contradiction and racial hatred,” she said. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Created in 2000, the epic veers into contradiction and absurdity and changes from night to night. ‘Gatz’ and Other Long Works Will Come to N.Y.U. Skirball 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

The historical Cromwell, Mr. Herrin said, is a man “full of brilliant contradictions. He’s incredibly capable, devious, charming, playful, occasionally perverse, sometimes honorable.” Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The contradictions are more amusing to think about than to watch. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Taylor, Ms. Lawson addresses the dangers, contradictions and cultural richness of living in America as a black person. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

"There is a moral ambivalence and a contradiction in most characters. Everyone loses on some level. Everybody is flawed." Highsmith's 'Two Faces' caught director's eye 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

“The idea of being irreligious and even atheist is spreading because of the contradiction between what Islamists say and what they do,” he said. Atheism explodes in Saudi Arabia (where just talking about atheism is illegal) 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

To stride backward sounds like a contradiction in terms; Ms Gerring’s dancers make it seem natural. Review: Liz Gerring’s ‘Horizon,’ Exuberantly Athletic, Has Its Premiere 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

This was a momentous part of our nation's history and we wanted to illustrate the ambiguities, the contradictions, and complexities of this 10-year search. Zero Dark Thirty premiere sparks anti-torture protest 2013-01-09T12:54:21Z

And it captures a fundamental contradiction in showing how unsettling the heroes find the situation, and how attitudes towards them change as soon as they demonstrate that they are normal men rather than mythical beings. Choose July's Reading group book 2013-06-26T13:35:35Z

And nowhere is that contradiction between perception and reality more notable than with Nucky. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z

"I wanted to plug in and they wanted to unplug and we met in that contradiction of both of us trying to do something we hadn't done before." Brandi Carlile finds her rock and roll voice 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The magic of Samuel Westing’s game is, like America itself, marked by capriciousness and contradiction. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

The contradictions abound, and become part of the appeal. Lorde reigns at Aragon 2014-03-19T05:37:00Z

I’m a French soul trapped inside a Scottish-Irish-American body, and I embrace my multiple identities and contradictions. Does loving wine make you politically progressive? One writer thinks it should. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

These characters are all fascinatingly flawed, and their contradictions are a reflection of the conflicts pervading their histories and cultures. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

It is intensely personal, cleareyed and absolutely riveting, partly because the author, thrust into an outsider’s position, developed a keen appreciation of Germany’s contradictions and paradoxes. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z

An Oprah master class is not actually a how-to course; it’s more like a video version of self-publishing: celebrities talk about their careers to the camera without a visible interviewer and without interruption or contradiction. ArtsBeat: A No Cynicism Zone on Oprah?s Network 2011-01-02T15:41:57Z

Though his journalists regularly championed the downtrodden, Wenner proudly recounts a life of unbridled hedonism, and seems disinclined to reconcile any contradiction. For Jann Wenner, the Music Never Stopped 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

In its combination of precision and exuberance the show matches the spirit of Environmental Communications itself, whose work always a cultural contradiction in terms, a carefully indexed card catalog of scruffy, genial radicalism. L.A. in the 1970s: A visual and architectural treasure trove at LAXART 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

When the choreographer Martha Graham added men to her company, it struck many as a contradiction in terms. The Ambiguous Layers of Martha Graham’s ‘El Penitente’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

This contradiction was made explicit at the summit Thursday morning. Upstream: Day 1 of new music fest brings modest crowds but good energy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Apathy is especially common in America, where images of hunger and isolation give painful contradiction to “land of opportunity” pride and “city on a shining hill” myth. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

She seeks to create works that embody contradictions and dualities: her own multinational background; the masculine and feminine; darkness and light. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

“He saw his society too clearly for comfort: the contradictions, the hypocrisies and denials, the seemingly ever-widening gap between what people professed to honor and what they actually did.” Biography paints portrait of Muhammad as prophet, man 2013-01-17T22:06:50Z

As for the band’s lyric sheet, it’s riddled with contradictions that you won’t even notice. Review | An underwear model and his pals just dropped the year’s best country album 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The series became an island of mainstream in a sea of niche by embodying contradictions. The End of ‘American Idol,’ TV’s Last Cultural Big Tent 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Societies in transition are always studies in contradictions. Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

For example, Barzun describes the starting point of conversation as contradiction: but democratic manners, that is to say American, will not tolerate this. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z

It was meant to address the abundant contradictions of a city that already had a reputation for radicalism and nonconformity, yet remained functionally as segregated as anyplace in America. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Writers found in Baldwin a mix of rigor and freedom: Here was an unsparing diagnostician who nevertheless embraced contradictions. ‘Begin Again’ Calls on James Baldwin to Make Sense of Today 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The concert opened with “Things Have Changed,” his Oscar-winning song from 2000, played faster and more urgently than its recorded version, and it followed through on that song’s core contradiction. A Review of Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

While "business travel" might seem like one of life's more humdrum contradictions--a necessary marriage of the exotic and the mundane--experience teaches that it is among the richest. Rewards Of The Road 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z

There's a hubris and an insecurity that certainly is a contradiction, a paradox, but that's how it is. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

In “Wishful Drinking,” which she also performed as a one-woman show, she surveyed the outer edges of her contradictions: “I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the ‘Abnormal Psychology’ textbook. Postscript: Carrie Fisher, 1956-2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Farrell has a liquid style that slips easily down the gullet, and he understands all too well that Nixon was a vat of contradictions. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

It's a contradiction in terms, but it sort of works: fey brostep. New band of the day – No 1,315: Stubborn Heart 2012-07-24T15:59:00Z

In almost every instance, the script and direction settle for simplest, dullest explanation of its main characters’ behavior, even when that’s in direct contradiction of something mentioned earlier. Ernest Hemingway made silly 2012-05-25T18:20:00Z

Vogel was a thinker of deep multiplicities and contradictions, an aesthetic hedonist as well as an ideologue, and his own inner conflicts proved immensely productive and remain unresolved, by him and by history. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Eagle's transatlantic casting switch does raise some awkward contradictions. Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z

But as time goes on, the superhero genre has been edging ever closer to its own contradictions, and something’s got to give. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

It also invites comparisons to Prince, not only for Miguel’s ingenious, multifarious rock and soul hybrids but also for his determination to address dualities and contradictions. Review: Miguel’s ‘Wildheart’ Features R&B and Clashing Impulses 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Pulling off a great Coward performance, with its filigree contradictions, is a rare accomplishment. Review: Kevin Kline Serves Ham in Soignée Silk in ‘Present Laughter’ 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Williams wants us to struggle with that contradiction. Review: An Audio ‘Streetcar,’ Not Yet Reaching Its Destination 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

"It does seem like a great contradiction," Manguso admits, referring to the diary, which is ongoing to this day. Sarah Manguso's 'Ongoingness' preserves life in the pages 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

To jonr in Brooklyn: There is an inherent contradiction in your comment. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Taking the MIC … Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV Made in Chelsea is a turgid reality phenomenon riddled with contradictions – which is obviously what makes it so compelling. Why Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV 2012-12-17T15:16:26Z

As horse moms, we live an inherent contradiction. Review | What does it mean to be a ‘horse girl’? It’s more than a silly kid who wants a pony. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

This contradiction bothers Nile, and represents an ethical circle that “The Old Guard” doesn’t quite square. ‘The Old Guard’ Review: Fighting to the Death, and Beyond 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

If I have to summarise this book in one sentence, which would be very difficult," he says, "it is this: accept your contradictions. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

Islamic State claimed responsibility for what it called revenge against "Crusaders," but there appeared to be contradictions in its account of the operation. Ariana Grande returns to U.S. following Manchester bombing: report 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

These contradictions inhere in every medium, of course. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine a clearer statement of the contradictions of nation building. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z

It neither accurately depicts nor analyzes the contradictions and pathologies of America’s relationship with high art, but it is a symptom of them. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And you depart it all mystified by the absurd contradictions that Ms. Winfrey’s achievements reveal about this country. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The role of Sabrina, with all its layers and contradictions, was also an exciting challenge. Kiernan Shipka Gets a Tarot Card Reading. It’s Mostly Good News. 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

He truly understand the contradictions and promise of Latin America. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

That's part of the fun of the character and the movie as a whole, that contradiction. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z

She can spot hypocrisy, cant, self-­contradiction and absurdity 10 miles away. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

But over all, Napoli takes a “nevertheless, she persisted” approach with the women, largely skimming over their doubts and contradictions in favor of tidy, triumphant narrative arcs. The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Bebop is tense and roiling with the very horrors and contradictions of ostensible freedom in a land of relentless racism. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

A grand fantasia in the tradition of Schubert and Chopin, it is full of contradictions and unexplainable things. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was organized in collaboration with artist Claire Fontaine, who uses illuminated signs in public space to name our cultural contradictions. Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

One principle of Slavs and Tatars’ work is to seek out contradictions that raise questions rather than offering answers. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Wary, wise, inviting, intelligent, concerned—all the necessary contradictions of human character shine. Baby Faces and the Myth of the Child’s Mind 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Some people would see that as a contradiction, but it’s not. Leila could operate on both desires and still be queer.” 'So often we get pigeonholed': how queer women of color found a voice online 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

These contradictions or quirks are charming in the person of Duchamp but become more problematic in the larger religion of Duchampism. Review | Duchamp was all about playful subversion. That’s what makes his presence in Washington so fitting. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The city’s conflicts and contradictions serve instead as elements in a static, ready-made backdrop, occasionally distracting attention from the drama at center stage. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

As he took the photo, Freed “realized that this was the contradiction of American culture — this man was guarding American freedom abroad, but denied full rights at home,” Farber said. American artists find meaning in the fall of the Berlin Wall

As a statement of his feelings it might have been messy and filled with contradictions. ArtsBeat: Electrifying and Bewildering, a Classic Kanye West Event 2010-11-24T11:34:00Z

"That apparent contradiction – that as a species, we are capable of the very best and the very worst – had fascinated me for a long time," he says. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z

Despite its numerous problems and contradictions, that’s where I got it. My uneasy Catholic motherhood 2013-05-26T20:30:00Z

And what a thicket these rituals are, tangled with contradictions, curiosities, surprising foreign provenance and even, when the brush gets cleared, remarkable common sense. ‘Sorry!’ a guide through the thicket of English manners 2013-12-24T21:28:22Z

There is a deep contradiction in the rise of Donald Trump. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“She Paradise” reveals the contradictions that women both endure and embody on their path to success. ‘She Paradise’ Review: Coming of Age Through Soca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

From the perspective of a single village, and the fantasies and enigmas that it inspires, Dumont gets close to the explosive core of contradictions, the psychic magma of history beneath the surface of daily life. Bruno Dumont’s Vision of a Confused, Far-Right, Alienated France 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

In an interview with Bill Moyers, Professor James Cone of Union Theological Seminary explains the seeming contradiction between the grief of the refrain and the promise of the closing exaltation. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

His train voyage is full of similarly vivid contradictions. Book review: ‘Midnight in Siberia,’ by David Greene

Irreverent, scabrous and enraged, these manifestos also happen to be full of contradictions, written in the heat of the moment and without a cool eye to posterity. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Each discovery piques your curiosity and seems to dent Mr. Sanchez’s credibility at the same time, a contradiction that isn’t addressed. Review: ‘Killing Fields,’ on Discovery, Examines a Cold Case 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The constant contradiction – introvert/extrovert – was much underlined by the drugs. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

Often he negotiated the contradiction in an inventive way. Brian Weil's work focuses on a 'World' few ever see 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

His nervous, shifty quality is perfect for the part, but he doesn’t bring a depth to Jimmy that would account for the character’s contradictions. ‘Better Call Saul’ Starts Its Fourth Season, Still Waiting for Saul 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Calls to conservation personnel who live and work in Vietnam reconciled the seeming contradictions. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

By modern standards, it's a quiet play – but it poignantly reflects the contradictions of a poet whom Ted Hughes called "the father of us all". The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review 2012-11-16T11:57:23Z

Mr. Delaney’s Jacob is a robust figure of depleting contradictions, struggling to will himself into a positive assessment of a world he knows firsthand is capable of wholesale destruction. Review: A Species on the Brink in ‘Secret Life of Humans’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Despair, another Mosquito offering, packs in more contradictions. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – review 2013-07-20T23:07:01Z

Thompson writes at length about the late Sandy Denny, Fairport’s lead singer, and remembers her as a supremely talented bundle of contradictions. British guitarist Thompson’s memoir revisits golden rock era 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

As Marías explains: “Unlike philosophical thinking, which demands an argument without logical flaws and contradictions, literary thinking allows you to contradict yourself.” “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Like Washington, James Brown had his secrets and contradictions, only some of which are addressed in director Tate Taylor’s highly enjoyable if ultimately conventional biopic, “Get on Up.” “Get on Up”: How the Godfather of Soul set us free 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

A lot of people would find the notion of a “simpler but dramatically richer world” to be a contradiction. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

This was neither the first nor the last contradiction we encountered. “If I teach them, no one can stop them”: Roya Mahboob is fighting to educate the girls of Afghanistan 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

But to understand the GOP’s internal contradictions, and the dangers posed by its rotting, shambling undead carcass, I suspect we need to reach even further back. Jeb! Agonistes: Being the sad and gruesome history of a frontrunner who never was and the GOP’s zombie apocalypse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

And it’s on the second, slower look that some of the prickly contradictions that underlie Mr. McQueen’s work, and fashion as a genre, start to emerge. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z

Its Trumbo is a charmer who wears his contradictions so lightly you might not notice them, despite the occasional ribbing from his friends. Review: Bryan Cranston in ‘Trumbo,’ as a Screenwriter in a Hollywood Under Siege 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mendonça's camera exposes a world of complex relationships and simmering contradictions. 'Neighboring Sounds': Danger lurks silently on Brazilian block 2012-09-20T20:48:10Z

And, where popular titles of the past tended to depict Indian gods, fables, and folklore, today’s artists are interested in exploring the experience and contradictions of living in India now. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s very strange, because I think that it’s exactly this area that’s very complicated in the book, because there are so many different layers and contradictions. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

I had eased into sameness the very differences and contradictions that sacred ritual is meant to contain. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Likewise, my Mississippi — with its contradictions, its brutal history of racial violence and injustice and its terrible beauty — inflicted my first wound. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

During the war itself, and shortly after the Union’s victory, churches began flying the banner near the altar, with no feelings of contradiction from congregants, side-by-side with the cross. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Yet “Car Wash” does comment on itself: The contradictions between their labor and our leisure are manifest in the irresistible title song. ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

She taped local and national programs looking for cracks and contradictions in the official narrative. ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A VCR Obsession 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

“There were contradictions between these classes—sometimes we joked that we didn’t know if our ancestors were the Gauls or the pharaohs!” My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

It also highlights the contradiction between India’s reliance on coal to fuel its economic boom and the impacts its citizens might see. Extreme heat will hit India’s most vulnerable the hardest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Human beings are strange, though we often don’t like to admit to the arbitrariness of many of our conventions or the contradictions inherent in our behaviors. ‘Strange Planet’ Review: An Alien’s Guide to Being Human 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

That contradiction is the heart of the project. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

SZA's languid R&B offers a wealth of contradictions: self-assured in delivery but insecure in emotion, casual in tone but cutting in content. How SZA Went From Sharing a Futon to Finding Her Voice 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

In any case, “The Birth of a Nation” is not “only a movie”; it’s precisely a movie, an ambitious attempt to corral the contradictions of history within the conventions of popular narrative. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Cohen’s special skill has been to recognize, intrinsically, that this duality is not a contradiction — that perfectly smart people can care way too much about a bunch of plastic-faced ninnies. Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he’s riddled with flaws and contradictions, given to hard drinking and reckless gambling, casual betrayal, and an unwieldiness to pull the trigger on a hit he’s responsible for arranging. Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Eminem continues to attack the hypocrisies and contradictions that allowed him to leapfrog equally gifted artists. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Red is a color that is full of contradictions,” he said. Special Report: : Haute Couture for Furniture 2011-11-21T13:07:04Z

Through brief essays composed of anecdotes, mini-histories and cultural criticism, Biss explores the contradictions of capitalism from within its clutch, meditating on the twisted individual experience of class and money in America. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

But fighting for one group is a contradiction in terms. Why women shouldn't be campaigning for equal pay 2010-09-24T06:00:00Z

That “The Exorcist” will arrive with an outsize profile because of its cinematic heritage while it asks to be judged on its own merits may strike some as a diabolical contradiction. ‘The Exorcist’ on a Los Angeles Stage 2012-06-22T00:23:01Z

A lot of other people did talk, however, and what emerges is a complex portrait of a personality full of contradictions, weaknesses and calculation as well as those positive traits we all know about. Kitty Kelley's Oprah dissection a brave opus 2010-04-23T09:39:00Z

Salinger struggled all his long life with the contradiction between his gifts as a writer and his impulse to refuse them. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z

Indeed, that contradiction is to some degree the subject of “We Come as Friends,” right down to the ruthless historical irony of its title. Africa’s great awakening: Amid capitalist plunder and environmental catastrophe, a new consciousness rises 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

All the tensions, contradictions and fissures within the culture were made plain in the fashions of the times. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

And while the impulses behind such acts are benign – he wants to take on the bullies, to protect the weak – he can't help but become aware of the contradictions of his position. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z

Instead of cleaving his narrative to a political or ideological agenda, he wrestles honestly with the messy contradictions inherent to any conversation about race or class. New Memoirs Show How the Other Half Lives 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

How are we to add up these contradictions? Dance Review: A ?Swan? Of Complex Shades 2011-02-14T05:15:08Z

In those real-life seconds of film a huge tangle of American social contradiction lands squarely in front of us. Art Review: You Must Remember This 2011-08-18T21:47:02Z

But Derrida was drawn to the seeming contradiction in the version he favored. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Brooklyn artist is no neoclassicist, but he does ponder art’s basic elements, including color, shape and contradiction. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

And yes, for the reader who doesn’t mind the occasional contradiction or two. Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook 2010-08-29T23:10:00Z

What Jackson described as the contradiction of “trying to think in this modern and scientific way about things that are totally imaginary or spiritual” is the sort of intellectual paradox that drives her writing. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Taken together, the journalist says, those two points illustrate the contradictions of Maradona: He was a cheater and a genius, a player to be loathed and loved. ‘Diego Maradona’ Review: A Soccer Player Who Got His Kicks 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Anyone, male or female, can relate to her conflicts between her life and her career, the contradictions in her character and her desire to leave her mark on this world.” Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z

In moving quickly through scenes from “Heat,” “Her,” “Nick of Time,” “True Lies,” “Strange Days” and “Lethal Weapon 2,” among many others, Marshall gets at the basic contradiction of the Bonaventure’s relationship to Los Angeles. The wrong kind of time capsule: Notes on an afternoon inside John Portman's Bonaventure Hotel 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The 12-step people don’t see any contradiction in saying addiction is a disease and the treatment is prayer, meeting, and confession. Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

One choice for a director is just to go with the stylistic contradictions. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z

Escoffery was fascinated by the contradiction of his parents’ generation, “simultaneously wanting you to be Jamaican and also telling you you’re not Jamaican,” he said. Jonathan Escoffery Has a Reality He’d Like to Share 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

In this embodiment, the character is much less conflicted over the contradictions between his mission and his methods than when he debuted in the Charlton Comics series Fightin’ 5 in 1966. Meet Polka-Dot Man and Other Characters From ‘The Suicide Squad’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

He did not find a contradiction between law enforcement and basic human and civil rights. ‘Shots Fired’: A Mystery With a Message About Police Shootings 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

How to explain this bundle of energy and contradictions? Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

And every contradiction is uttered with the same uncertain certainty. Review: In Richard Maxwell’s ‘The Evening,’ Going Gentle Into the Night, or Not 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Multiplicity is a feature of queer writing, which holds space for overlapping contradictions, shifting identities and wily desire. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

The whole story is riddled with contradictions, competing claims and counter-claims, and speculative accounting about other people's money. Wanna be startin' something? 2012-08-14T16:00:02Z

For three nights at Desert Trip, the air was crowded with familiar melodies and mysterious contradictions. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

He has succeeded, at times movingly, even if Colette’s deliverance can seem shaped to 21st-century expectations and norms rather than to fin de siècle complexities and contradictions. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

This is also a portrait of a remarkable marriage, one with plenty of friction and contradictions. 'The Obamas' a portrait of their life in D.C. 2012-01-09T15:37:00Z

And so, Schumer has graduated into a particular type of female celebrity contradiction. Amy Schumer’s New Obligations 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Sondheim’s music, they make harmony out of the jangling contradictions that come with being alive. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z

Stopped clocks, rooms paused in time, a name that literally translates as "enough": Satis House is home, prison and memorial – a wonderfully realised expression of the contradictions of being at home. Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature 2012-07-18T15:10:43Z

But the contradictions of “Right Now” are destabilizing enough to draw me back in. The Productive Ambivalence of Aziz Ansari in His Comeback Netflix Special 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

From within her beyond-feminist panoply of contradictions, Bourgeois will continue to mock all certainty, not least certainty about the artist herself. Louise Bourgeois's greatest work of art 2010-06-06T21:29:00Z

But the contradictions embodied in that thesis and the situation it describes, perhaps inherent, soon became apparent. ArtsBeat: Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close 2012-05-07T14:23:30Z

For me, the exhibition, subtitled The Performance of Style, is a salutary reminder of my own confusions back then – as well as the confusions and contradictions inherent in any era. Glam! at Tate Liverpool: through a mirrorball darkly 2013-02-06T19:30:01Z

The Hall of Fame described him as "an international symbol of resistance and outlaw spirit, an irresistible contradiction, a definitive rap anti-hero." Rap anti-hero Tupac Shakur bigger in death than life 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

"I had to grapple with a lot of contradictions back in the 80s," he says, frowning. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

Gerwig’s “Little Women” leans into the book’s fluidities and contradictions, especially among the characters themselves, who are self-sacrificing and ethereal one moment and graspingly materialistic the next. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

I pictured, given the contradictions, either a gold-plated yacht or a tugboat. Modern Love: Diving Deep to Reach the Surface 2010-09-17T20:18:00Z

I share this with Sheikh, who is ready with a contradiction. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

And Olive, a high school math teacher who gives most of her students C’s, is many things — not so much contradictions as variations on a species of New England righteousness. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In the resulting mixed splendor and drabness of his attire, Harry becomes a walking contradiction and the perfect embodiment of the spirit of this engaging play. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z

Aided by a superb color sense, Crivelli wrested the inherent contradictions of his art into balanced wholes that are deliciously accessible as images and unexpectedly familiar as bold statements of ambition. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps more than any other performer, she embodied the contradictions that churn in the hearts of so many actors and singers: Her constitution seemed to be equal parts self-assurance and self-doubt, arrogance and vulnerability. A Critic’s Appraisal: Elaine Stritch 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“Irreverent, scabrous and enraged, these manifestos also happen to be full of contradictions, written in the heat of the moment and without a cool eye to posterity,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The idea of filmed theater is a contradiction in terms. Movie Review: Spalding Gray on Video in ‘Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road’ 2014-04-30T21:34:06Z

Mr. Tremaine said he appreciated the contradiction of “thinking of the dumbest things we could do with the most expensive cameras ever made.” Film: Another Dimension of Idiocy 2010-10-08T21:48:00Z

The film's heart is the relationship between the parents and their daughter, and the difficult, sometimes heartbreaking contradictions of family life. The most nightmarish holiday commute ever 2011-09-27T16:28:00Z

Pope is a host of contradictions: unapologetically bold but not above reproach; formidable but not immune from the pang of vulnerability. Where are the TV roles for black British female actors? 2013-07-18T11:09:20Z

We would have had a conversation, I would have learned to live with the contradictions. But instead, there are so many unanswered questions I can’t ask. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

Those are not contradictions but interrelated and integral elements of the same package. “Trainwreck”: Amy Schumer’s a comic genius, but this lumpy Judd Apatow rom-com doesn’t do her justice 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It was there most significantly, in all its contradictions, in the scene when Diane sat Alicia down and gave her the partner talk. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: Oh, That's What Friends Are For 2011-12-12T06:15:41Z

This is not to say that she is capable of resolving the conflicts and contradictions that continue to plague New Orleans and the rest of the country. Movie Review: ‘I’m Carolyn Parker,’ a Documentary by Jonathan Demme 2012-09-11T21:56:31Z

Strachan builds on contradictions: what belongs where, who identifies as what. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2018 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

I’ve been wrestling with the contradictions of movies ever since, sometimes with pleasure and satisfaction, at other times with frustration, exasperation or rage. 2017 Was a Year of Reckoning in Hollywood. Will 2018 Be the Year of Change? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

She darts through the story, weaving contradiction, disorienting the reader, lying sometimes, to herself, to her parents, to a subsequent much more upstanding college professor, and yet also not lying. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

The play is deeply sympathetic to Cuban American emotions and distrust of what Martinez portrays as political machinations by both Castro and the Clinton administration, while also capturing contradictions within the community itself. Divisive Battle Over Elián González Reverberates on a Miami Stage 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Most of Obama's classmates could not see how hard he was working to reconcile the contradictions that life threw at him. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

Playing both sides of Ann’s contradictions fully, she produces a detailed portrait of a woman who loves her husband even though he cannot love her the way she thinks she wants. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

It may appear to be a contradiction that the first restaurant specifically catered to clients who had lost their appetites, yet it seems perfectly natural soup was the cure. ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

Here, we have the remains of the Servian Wall, from the fourth century B.C., competing for space with a brand-new McDonald’s: modern Rome, with all of its contradictions. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

In her imagination, the black man is a timeless figure full of contradictions. Nora Chipaumire Makes Darkness Visible 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The song is full of ironies and contradictions, and quite a lot of humor as well. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Linney’s tough but gently shaded performance honors the character’s seeming contradictions. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z

To Brits, the American game is a contradiction of girly rugby and macho brutality, which made a hard sell of Friday Night Lights, a show about high school players in small-town Texas. When good TV goes bad: how the bulb blew on Friday Night Lights 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

In fact — and this will ring true to anyone with a family — his characters often harbor emotions that would seem to be in perfect contradiction to each other. Justin Torres' 'We the Animals': a childhood unforgettably drawn 2011-10-25T16:22:04Z

There’s no contradiction in the absence of black faces and the presence of Native American ones. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Another example of that terrifying contradiction for TV: the live event that is delivered already dead. Live sport on TV: TV matters 2010-04-15T05:45:00Z

But reality nonetheless finds interesting reflections on screen, where even apparently simple stories can be full of ambiguity and contradiction. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z

The poems are often full of seeming paradox and contradiction, a feature which can wrong-foot just as it provokes and delights. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z

No one registered such a contradiction at the time. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Selldorf removes the pergolas, she eliminates the complexity and contradiction Venturi Scott Brown layered into the ensemble, denaturing their eclectic addition. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“When you are faced with this kind of historical contradiction, what is liberation?” Tomi Ungerer’s Triumphant Return 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Roiphe’s aim is to investigate a profound contradiction within herself, between her submissive attitude toward men she desires and her fierce, feminist self-reliance. Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

I’m making “Peer Gynt,” a work of endless contradictions, sound simpler than it is. Review: A Minimalist Version of ‘Peer Gynt’ Still Provokes 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

The contradiction is, I do fight for artists, but in that fight I somehow was disrespectful to artists. Kanye West: 'I Have Decided in 2020 to Run for President' 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Murmelstein, who called himself "the last of the unjust", perfectly represented those contradictions. Claude Lanzmann returns to the Holocaust 2013-05-14T17:29:00Z

“These are unbelievable contradictions,” he said, speaking of the film’s depiction of women whose children were cared for black maids who were not allowed to use their homes’ bathrooms. Rabbi Marvin Hier Talks Best Picture Nominees 2012-02-02T22:55:22Z

But the movie also portrays, more broadly, the essential contradiction within the language of individual self-affirmation that surrounds us at fourteen or at forty. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

And Stefani mulled his curious contradictions – a “sweet guy” with glasses who has a lot of tattoos, and so on. 'The Voice' recap: The Top 5 top themselves -- twice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Their distinctiveness is a product of their contradictions, their layers. A Bot That Captures the Ambivalence of Human Emotion 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The film reflects the contradiction of penniless users who live by the seat of their pants and have their days rigidly structured by addiction. Drugstore Cowboy at 30: is this the best film ever made about addiction? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

The network executive said any contradictions that possibly surface in that coverage will be examined as well. Brian Williams' future uncertain as NBC News launches investigation 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

They are as enthusiastic about promoting the cause as having fun, and at first there seems to be no contradiction between politics and pleasure. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Picturing Him in Sequins and Capes When audiences looked at Liberace, they saw a bundle of contradictions wrapped in layers of fur, gold lamé suits and ostrich-feather capes. Liberace’s Tale, From Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh 2013-05-17T21:54:42Z

Such dichotomies not only attest to the 29-year-old Kate Tempest’s gift for shattering — and transcending — convention and conventional genres, but they also underscore the tensions and contradictions that fuel her dynamic art. Review: Kate Tempest, a Young Poet Conjuring Ancient Gods 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and Mr. Pynchon, who lived for a time in Manhattan Beach, share a love of Southern California contradictions. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. McKay personified a contradiction: an ingenuous naïf with a torch singer’s sophistication. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z

As always with neoliberal capitalism, there are contradictions at work. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the end, Mr. Deitch might be seen as a pioneer of one of our culture’s central contradictions. Jeffrey Deitch Has Big Plans Now That He's Left Los Angeles 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

That may sound like a contradiction, so let’s be clear: This isn’t a show for people who like their humor refined, subtle or family-friendly. Review: On ‘Those Who Can’t,’ Stalking the Halls of Lower Education 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

And it captures this ambitious mix of tones and contradictions with the most imaginative soundtrack on the air. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

But it contains a contradiction of sorts, attributing the decline of the manufacturing sector to macroeconomic forces seemingly beyond anyone’s control, while pinning the hopes for reversing it on small-scale successes and plucky individuals. Movie Review: ‘American Made Movie’ Ponders U.S. Manufacturing’s Decline 2013-09-06T00:58:41Z

“So we sent her so that all these contradictions would emerge.” 2 Pussy Riot Members Say They Have Been Arrested 2014-02-18T10:47:08Z

Which culture is free of contradictions between first principles? Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

“There are a lot of tentacles here, running between and among the works, and a lot of contradictions,” Ms. Gingeras said. Rauschenberg Foundation Gallery Opens as a Big Tent 2012-09-26T21:48:32Z

Even the name — “Memorial Museum” — is something of a contradiction in terms. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z

He celebrates the essay as a form born of contradictions between tradition and innovation, fragmentation and wholeness, autobiography and artifice. A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Lorraine interjected, and though it might seem like a contradiction, it was her way of getting to the root. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

But Bond's magnificent 1973 play, excellently revived by Angus Jackson, is itself a study in contradiction. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z

She was after the contradictions, a word that appears in many of her interviews, between clichés and “the images of lived life.” The Agnès Varda I Knew: Showing Women Their Real Place in Movies 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

You’d hear maddening contradictions like “I’m no feminist, but . . .” after which feminist statements would pour from the speaker’s mouth. Robin Morgan on Why Feminist Is a 21st Century Word 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

A comedy about terrorism might sound like a contradiction in terms, but in the new Royal Court play “B,” you may find that absurdism offers an entirely legitimate response to our anxious times. On London Stage, Absurdity and Terrorism Aren’t Mutually Exclusive 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

There is not necessarily any contradiction between this exhibition of female bodies and the theme of female empowerment, between the booty shaking and the raised fists. Heels on the Ground: Beyoncé and the Army of Women at Her Command 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Salvado sees the contradiction in anthologizing pictures from a medium meant to be ephemeral but believes that curating and sharing is the future of expression. | Instagram in Print 2012-12-05T20:00:09Z

A life and career defined by triumphs, setbacks and moral contradictions played out in front of the camera make Ali a popular subject among filmmakers and TV producers. Ken Burns' new "Muhammad Ali" docuseries is worth going the distance 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

The rhythm isn’t linear; it’s forward and backward, yin and yang, a dance of contradictions, and this was true in America from the start. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z

Engaging in what Marxists call “heightening the contradictions,” Caldwell argues that the oppressive imperialism of civil rights laws is not incidental. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

“O’Toole has not invented the form, but he comes close to perfecting it. He embraces the contradictions and the confusion. In the process, he weaves the flag rather than waving it.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Conley was full of confusing contradictions — as deeply embedded in the teachings of the Bible as he was in the prose of great literature. ‘Boy Erased’: A minister’s son trapped between religion and his sexual identity 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this “Three Sisters” doesn’t absorb us sufficiently into the siblings’ unhappy bubbles; it’s a delicate negotiation, illuminating the contradictions of the women’s lives. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

These are the contradictions that are the hallmarks of Sugimoto’s landmark photography. Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Jekyll and Hyde Year 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

“I guess I’ve always been a contradiction,” Diva Donna says in summation of this superfluous show. With 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,' heaven knows the Queen of Disco deserved better than this 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Metaphorically it’s an image of the mind trying to contain its own conflicts and contradictions about men and women, celebrity and the electronic media’s saturation of contemporary consciousness. From Dana Schutz, Concoctions of Cubist Abstraction and Funky Expressionism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a rich tangle of contradictions partly because of Lloyd’s guileless if pointed role as an intermediary between the black world and the white. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

“It is a contradiction that divides the world. My mouth must be silent, then.” Black Women Writers and the Secret Space of Diaries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

There was little contradiction, he added, between the action across town and the musical sensibility of the festival. Primavera Sound Sets the Stage for Music Festivals Worldwide 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

If that’s a contradiction, it’s one that is practically impossible for humans to escape, and for many of us distressingly so. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s almost like an innate instinct to say “I can’t do this” — which is in complete contradiction to my personality, which is generally can-do-y, motivated and aggressive. The indirect director 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z

Jähner sets out to tell the tumultuous story of the postwar decade in all of its contradictions, conveying the breadth of experiences amid the “extreme challenges” the German people faced. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

If, as Mr. Lac explained at the start, “zombie means living and dead,” while “aporia is a logical contradiction,” Mr. Linehan wanted to present a landscape of hybrid art. Dance Review: Daniel Linehan in the American Realness Festival - Review 2012-01-12T23:55:14Z

In other words, Mengers was a bundle of fascinating contradictions perpetually draped in one of her signature caftans. ‘Can I Go Now?’ review: The Life of Sue Mengers 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This even though — yet another Florida contradiction — state government is dominated by politicians from the right, who often do their level best to emulate the do-nothing Republican U.S. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

These, presumably, were the contradictions of the title. Music Review: Embracing the Modern With Tone Clusters, Not Dissonance 2011-01-23T22:49:50Z

I like being a contradiction, and I like how intimate our relationship is – you have to trust somebody to let them dominate you. What I'm really thinking: the submissive 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Like many good journalists', her indignation is large enough to contain a variety of contradictions. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z

In this, as in much else, Burns seems a bundle of contradictions: an inveterate storyteller who keeps her private life to herself, a born leader who admits to bouts of loneliness. Nica Burns: queen of Edinburgh comedy 2011-08-26T11:45:01Z

Davies's production precisely captures the contradictions of a work in which people are absurd without being worthless. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z

This puts the movie in a state of contradiction with itself, like nearly every other good western and, for that matter, like the United States of America. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The ethical and philosophical questions that come up in any evaluation of organ transplantation and organ donations are a minefield of religious and ethical confusion and contradictions. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z

“Baltimore Rising” lets such contradictions speak for themselves, as a depressing theme of status quo emerges and the communal energy stirred up by Gray’s death begins to dissipate. Review | Like the activism it chronicles, ‘Baltimore Rising’ struggles to find real progress 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

There is no contradiction or disharmony between those poems and the earlier poems in the book that are directly political. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

So it is not entirely a simpler, more innocent world that is swept away by the war but rather a way of life whose contradictions are as emphatically presented as its charms. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z

Like Mr. Wangdu’s paintings, Mr. Norbu’s works are suggestive, but too mild considering the possibilities for picturing the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

A worried friend recalled Gödel talking about “some inner contradictions” in the Constitution that would make it legally possible “for somebody to become a dictator and set up a fascist regime.” A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

But Murugan works his themes with a light hand; they always emanate from his characters, who are endowed with enough contradiction and mystery to keep from devolving into mouthpieces. A Novel That Roiled India Is Now Translated Into English 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The project captures contradictions in the NFT world between its claims for a transcendent new immateriality and the very earthbound bling involved in almost all its transactions. One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Her heroine, Bair discovered, was a woman whose life was no less riddled with contradictions and difficult compromises than her own. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

As Russia gears up to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of the Romanovs, the uncomfortable contradictions in an ambitious project to align Russia’s past, present and future are beginning to emerge. Gone too Tsar: the erotic period drama that has enraged Russia 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, Mr. Peers’s smart libretto adopts a process that peels away his title character’s contradictions, unreliable memories, half-lies and compromising admissions in a way that subtly notches up the pathos. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Perhaps without meaning to, the film also captures many of Vidal’s contradictions. How one sexy gay novel derailed Gore Vidal’s literary career 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

While members of Congress cast votes in direct contradiction to the best interest of their constituents, the much-vilified “media elite” has done what it can to serve as the people’s mouthpiece. How late-night comedy went from political to politicized 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio — the first collaboration in decades between founding members Brian Wilson and Mike Love — proves harmony never gets old The Beach Boys are all about contradictions. Beach Boys' 'Radio' Tunes Into Summer Nostalgia 2012-06-05T10:45:30Z

There’s no contradiction in that, but it does show how seemingly objective standards are so often rooted in social judgments. The National Gallery’s great feast 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

His beautifully composed, subtle pictures dissect the country's contradictions, revealing the inner life of a still divided population. David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review 2011-01-25T13:59:01Z

Saturday’s set proved that Hill is still a thicket of contradictions, though. Lauryn Hill worth the wait at Club Nokia 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

What an amazing celebration of contradictions that is America! Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

He was a kind of human cartoon -- a very human cartoon, full of contradictions that made him at once more lovable and more worrisome. Robin Williams ran a comedy marathon at a sprint 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

But his personality perfumes the whole production and his contradictions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies tell an ornate story about America that’s deeper, stranger and darker than maybe even “S-Town” knew. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

She was also fully aware of the contradictions of what she was trying to do. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

These tendencies to polarize Money and his work are both productive and symptomatic of a failure to interrogate the complexities, contradictions, and tensions in Money’s oeuvre. Pervert or sexual libertarian?: Meet John Money, “the father of f***ology” 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

That surreal 75 minutes included mind-spinning contradictions about real leaks somehow creating “fake news.” Perspective | Could reporters be hunted down if Trump goes after leakers? 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

She noted that the endless commentary the industry made about your body — this part of you is too big, that part of you is too small — could be exhausting in its contradictions. Moving Through the Lens 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Manon is the only character fully fleshed out in an opera that abounds in stylistic contradictions. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z

His treatment of the footage is an attempt to clarify, and at the same time represent, all sorts of human contradictions. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z

Frey’s mindfulness of tradition is perhaps the most fruitful contradiction in his creative makeup. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Reporters believe that if they lay out a demagogue’s contradictions, quote people who cringe at what he has said or compile lists of his despicable utterance, that the demagogue will sink under his own weight. All the times the pundits declared Donald Trump toast — and what they say now 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

“It was the imperial emblem and is also a symbol of socialism — which is an interesting contradiction.” In Transit: Paris Art Show Gives 'Buzz' a New Meaning 2010-10-13T10:00:00Z

The Freedom Tower, now renamed 1 World Trade Centre, looks assertive and confident, like the towers of corporate America anywhere, but it has contradictions. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z

And yet, like the egg itself — simultaneously alive and not-alive — it offers a slate of contradictions. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

There's room, of course, in a pop song for these contradictions. Meghan Trainor's 'Title' is cheerful, crafty yet vexing 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Yet though these moments are highlights, they don’t sum up the duets; every Cunningham dance contains its own contradictions. Dance Review: In the State Where It All Began, a Cunningham Farewell 2011-02-06T22:46:12Z

Efforts conceived under this philosophy make the utterly true assertion that close dissection of anyone would expose real contradiction, ugliness and frailty. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

Because of his fascinating contradictions, Ms. Wang said, “the picture is very complex.” Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z

Knowing of the wonderful perversity of "Nicole" helps put the many contradictions of Newman's Sunday recital in perspective. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Pittman addresses the stereotypes inherent in a state so full of contradiction upfront, in a prologue titled “The Punchline State,” then gets on with showing just how complex Florida can be. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

He’s just made the contradiction, like everything he builds, bigger and gaudier. To Understand Trump and the News Media, Watch the Clips of Harambe the Gorilla 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Spring is about gentle contradictions, not color, Phoebe Philo seemed to say: Shown through a muted palette of black, white, navy and gray. Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant 2012-10-01T02:46:03Z

A walking bag of contradictions, he wears his hair long in braids and has a penchant for pot smoking, yet remains arguably conservative country music's greatest songwriter. Accidental outlaw Willie Nelson celebrates 80th 2013-04-26T11:23:09Z

Marx was wrong: capitalism did not die of its internal contradictions, but because the people running the show are knackered, and pointlessly busy. In praise of … getting your eight hours 2013-04-02T21:12:53Z

Everywhere you look there is a contradiction or juxtaposition that surprises you. 36 Hours in Istanbul: Differences Between European and Asian Side 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Bad Feminist, she explains, is about reconciling contradictions — how to ask tough questions about the world and feminism while still “admitting to our humanity and enjoying sometimes inappropriate things.” Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist Is a "Manual on How to Be a Human" 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

With their planetary awareness, insistence on transformation and appetite for contradiction, the feminist futures proposed here can’t come too soon. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

In 1994, the CEOs of America’s seven largest tobacco companies sat before Congress and testified, in contradiction to the overwhelming scientific evidence, that cigarettes aren’t addictive and that evidence linking them to cancer is inconclusive. “Merchants of Doubt”: Meet the sleazy spin doctors who will stop at nothing to obscure the truth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

More recently, “Big Brother” delved into the contradictions surrounding the popular perceptions of obesity and weight loss. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Yet within this all is a burning contradiction. Jay-Z's Samsung deal signals a musical future where the rich get richer 2013-07-04T11:37:50Z

In the end, it suggests a vivid set of contradictions, as much between the author and the character as between the character and himself. Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mason’s stewardship is one of the most glaring and fascinating contradictions in “Zora and Langston,” simultaneously echoing those at the heart of both writers’ legacies. The Complex Literary Friendship Between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Descended from politicians, he likes to swagger around the Capitol in crisp suits and Ray-Ban sunglasses, in actual contradiction to his professed dislike of the place. Review | ‘The Swamp’ looks at political reform through the eyes of an unlikely hero: Rep. Matt Gaetz 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Soufan has his own contradictions: a scotch habit to match O’Neill’s, welded on to a principled commitment to his faith. 'They totally underestimated al-Qaida': The Looming Tower and America's pre-9/11 complacency 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Uhtred, the hero and narrator of this series, is a fascinating mixture of divided loyalties and internal contradictions. Cornwell’s ‘The Pagan Lord’: a bloody battle for England 2014-01-22T22:29:30Z

In essence, he argues that nothing is ever what it appears, and contradiction is encoded in almost everything. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z

Many of them confront American racism, past and present, with an unsparing eye for its cruelties and contradictions. The Essential Spike Lee 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

To survive those contradictions, St. Vincent’s “Strange Mercy” suggests, you have to embrace them. Album review: St. Vincent, 'Strange Mercy' 2011-09-12T02:34:00Z

A hero somewhat in the Shavian and Wildean mold, all observations and wisecracks, the often charming Leonard is more an antihero, possessed of contradictions. Theater Review: ‘Mary Broome’ by Allan Monkhouse at Mint Theater 2012-09-23T21:27:20Z

She explains that Mexicans seem to embody a contradiction, celebrating the achievements of their distant indigenous ancestors while at the same time knocking down their contemporaries. Star of Mexican film 'Roma' prompts raw discussion of race, class 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

But I suppose the contradiction between weeping with contestants through their workouts and success while stuffing our own faces in stubborn protest is American itself. Why "The Biggest Loser" is the most American show 2010-05-25T19:01:00Z

The absurd contradictions in this scene have been growing only more conspicuous. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

These songs capture the world through the eyes of a 26-year-old, with all of its complicated contradictions. Music Review: A winning set by John Fullbright 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

But, since Blythe is the walking contradiction of her name — a jittery, insecure woman who second-guesses herself constantly — questions arise about her reliability as a narrator. Review | Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

"Conceptual Craft," the name of a spirited show at Denk Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, might seem at first to be a contradiction in terms. 'Conceptual Craft' at Denk Gallery: The wood chair returned to nature and other heady ideas 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

This contradiction fuels Mormon feminism to this day. Polygamy, progressivism and the real history of Mormon feminism: “Women who joined this movement were gender radicals” 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Bringing it to the big screen seems to have highlighted contradictions within it of which he's well aware. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

If so, there is a contradiction implicit in her choices of clothing, given her husband’s promise in his Inaugural Address that “Buy American” would be a tenet of his administration. Melania Trump Reappears, and Wears European First 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

I enjoy “Some Like It Hot,” its laughs and contradictions. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Rife with contradiction, comfort seems most contradictory—most rich and wonderful—in the domain of art. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

In reality, Johnson was a bundle of contradictions. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

First seen in 1985 in a landmark season at Edinburgh's Traverse, White Rose is a Brecht-influenced study of the contradictions between elite achievement and the common good. White Rose – review 2013-02-27T18:03:48Z

Edward, like Jake, is a decent enough guy trying to finesse the moral contradictions of his job. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

Any life is a study in contradiction — Hitchcock’s perhaps more than most. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Claudia Rankine's laugh comes out of the body as an explosion of complex contradictions: mirth, disappointment, irony, dismay. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is a shame that people don't let themselves contain multitudes and contradictions. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Traditionally, a voice-over fills in the blanks, but Badlands is defined by the contradiction between what we see and what we hear. Badlands: No 4 2010-10-17T10:52:00Z

But while Afghan society largely accepts the apparent contradiction of bacha posh in small children, it also requires that all girls eventually follow the path of a “proper” Afghan woman. The Afghan girls raised as boys 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The central contradiction can be summed up thus: Mr. Pitt is a superstar who also happens to be something of a wild card. The Oscars: Brad Pitt Discusses ?Moneyball? and ?Tree of Life? 2011-12-30T18:44:10Z

But Rowley's assessment of Khashoggi through "Kingdom of Silence" acknowledges the profile's incompleteness, as any truthful portrait of a man and his contradictions would be. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

She stayed true to the good wife’s contradictions and demons to the very end, and it’s to the Kings’ credit that they let her and Alicia walk away without any easy answers. Review: ‘The Good Wife’ Ends With No Easy Answers 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

If there seems to be a contradiction between the documentary and the album, there’s also a connection between them. ‘Sonic Highways,’ Dave Grohl’s Musical Travelogue 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Tough one, because being in the “supportive listener” role for someone who is oblivious to their own culpability is a contradiction in terms. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A spouse’s silence is the opposite of supportive 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

A complex work, “Broken Embraces” records Almodóvar’s leap into his late style, that fractious realm of irresolution, contradiction and uneasy accommodation. The 5 essential Pedro Almodóvar movies to watch on your way to ‘Pain and Glory’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Back then, I never believed it was a contradiction,” he told me. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“There’s this image of struggle and contradiction I’m interested in,” said the affable, rangy 64-year-old artist, during a walk last month along part of the crawl route. Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Every production of “Threepenny,” he added, “tries to do the impossible: to work out what the conundrum with this piece is, and the contradictions within the text, music and content.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

There are movies far less accomplished that nevertheless have more to say about the contradictions of prepdom. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z

We're all walking contradictions full of ideas and thoughts and feelings. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but might just be possible. ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

To dream of a fluffier, easier, brighter-coloured world means you precisely don't interrogate its political contradictions. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z

Such assurance is all the more impressive when you consider that “The Band’s Visit” is built on delicately balanced contradictions. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

An extravagant elopement might strike some as a contradiction. Field Notes: Eloping Does Not Mean What It Once Did 2012-03-23T18:12:34Z

The job of a good analyst is – of course – to observe the contradictions in any account and to help the patient to observe them too. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z

“The film is a compulsively detailed swirl of moods and impressions, intent on capturing the contradictions of the man and his times,” A.O. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ and ‘Station 19' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

This is the contradiction that The Third Eye encodes. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z

It alights on Flaubert and Beethoven as well as on the knotty contradictions of grief. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Samaha loves her too much and knows her too well to flatten her contradictions into a caricature. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Surreal, sardonic, mock formal, markedly goofball, it thrived on contradiction and self-critical self-awareness. David Letterman's 33-year journey from cult hero to late-night institution 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Another contradiction, given there are so many ills of society for Harry Hole to deal with in fictional Oslo. How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Ut?ya massacre? 2011-07-30T23:06:29Z

As it is, you have a real contradiction. I fall asleep at work 2012-12-13T01:00:00Z

The company, which celebrates its 350th birthday in 2019, is an unlikely contradiction to the worldwide trend of an aging audience at operas. Is opera audience aging? Not in Paris 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

He writes character-driven stories, and through his assortment of fascinating and flawed characters, he offers inspection of the intractable contradictions inside the human heart. Required reading in the Year of Trump: Winners, losers and the portrait of a town in decline 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

What about his biases, his contradictions, the inclinations he can’t reconcile? The evolution of Atticus Finch 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

It was a typical encounter with the Merce Cunningham technique, which routinely confronts its practitioners with riddles, contradictions and near-impossible tasks. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It becomes clear, or clearish, though, that even within what appears to be the same continuity there are gaps and contradictions. The Adjacent by Christopher Priest – review 2013-06-26T09:56:10Z

But best of all, The Sting is a wonderfully moral movie – if that’s not a contradiction in terms for a story of rank deception. My favourite best picture Oscar winner: The Sting 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Set in the tranquil California seaside town of Monterey, the series explores society's myth of perfection and the contradictions that exist beneath the idealized facade of marriage, sex, parenting and friendship. Witherspoon, Kidman debut female-centric 'Big Little Lies' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Extreme Cities” examines the intersection of climate change and urbanization, and some of the challenges and contradictions involved. Four Books Explore Various Aspects of Cities Past and Present 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

It is “a very healthy addition to the public discourse,” said Mr. Horsley, because it normalizes “people pointing out contradictions to ‘group think’ in a non-aggro way.” What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

There’s not necessarily any contradiction or hypocrisy to be found in that, but there’s also no doubt that “Keep the Lights On,” as its title suggests, is a work of self-revelation and even of nakedness. “Keep the Lights On”: A gay breakthrough, and a great movie 2012-09-06T13:00:00Z

Bill Maher, whose prominent atheism has put him in the news after the anti-blasphemy terrorist attacks in Paris, is a mess of contradictions. 5 times Bill Maher has sabotaged his cause 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“I would instead like to talk about the tensions, contradictions and complexities.” Can El Museo’s Leader Build a Bridge to Its Latino Future? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Then we come to that apparent contradiction in terms, hyperacusis, where loud and therefore audible noises, like drums, instead of being welcome are truly painful. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

In the abstract, both halves of the contradiction are true. No Seat in the Fitting Room for Me 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Hunt spoke about the miniseries, the actual trial, Black Lives Matter, and the contradictions of black celebrity. Why we’re still fascinated with the O.J. Simpson trial: “The basic centrality of race in America hasn’t changed” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Shawn, a playwright whose work conforms to no dramatic handbook, obsessively teases out the contradiction and ironies in his tale. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

O'Brien is the great, the only, survivor of forces that silenced and destroyed who knows how many other Irish women writers, and her contradictions – her evasions even – must be regarded as salutary. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

The company, which celebrates its 350th birthday next year, is an unlikely contradiction to the worldwide trend of an aging audience at operas. An Unlikely Youth Revolution at the Paris Opera 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

He said he saw no real contradiction between his staunch libertarian faith in freedom of choice and his old-fashioned moralist’s dismay at where choice often leads. Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America? 2012-02-05T22:33:26Z

“I believe deeply in the power of paradox and contradiction.” This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z

Mr. Pryce pours himself into every cranny of his character’s contradictions: sometimes snappish, sometimes pathetic, always transparent. Review: In ‘The Height of the Storm,’ Two Stars and an Enigma 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her ascendancy was a result of tensions and contradictions within British society that also produced a singularly vibrant culture of opposition. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

Can it really be, even during this norm-busting presidency, that what appears to be a mess of contradictions is something closer to a political strategy? Perspective | Giuliani’s bumbling media blitz might be a calculation, not a mistake 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Therein lies a contradiction: Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony inevitably will include paeans to the collaborative nature of filmmaking. Eye-Catching Costumes Rule the Oscar Race 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

It’s about a clash of values, about unresolvable contradictions. Review: Salma Hayek Skewers a Boor in ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

There seems to be a contradiction at the heart of the secretary of state's rhetoric. Maria Miller: arts lobby's statements are 'close to pure fiction' 2012-11-28T16:36:59Z

My souvenir wooden Easter egg has many meanings written atop it — paganism, Christianity, and most of all, contradiction. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

The apparent contradiction is, in part, the result of the desire to put Mid Staffordshire into a separate box and label it "bad" while all around is "good". We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z

There is a contradiction underpinning the whole project of English imperialism, and Nesbit flags it perfectly. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

I think there's a tendency to reduce people like Norma to trophies or emblems, and to kind of ignore the complexity, ignore the contradictions. "AKA Jane Roe" filmmaker on Norma McCorvey's authenticity and getting to that "deathbed confession" 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Her contradictions remained offstage, until they couldn’t be contained there. The Complexities of Whitney Houston in “Whitney” 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

He’s middle aged and a mass of insecurity and contradictions. Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Aquinas's scriptural fidelity must be held alongside his conviction that there is no contradiction between revelation and reason, because the author of nature is the same God revealed in scripture. Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God 2012-02-13T15:24:07Z

Oppenheimer isn't an easy biographical subject: the complexity, the contradictions, and the cultural breadth provoke interest in the man, while for the biographer they constitute massive practical problems. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z

Your persistence and his inability to answer without the talking points did get to the truth: that there's a contradiction to what's going on in that war that they can't talk about. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

It is refreshing, particularly for a foreign-financed production, to move away from the cobblestones and boulevards of Paris to the gritty contradictions of France’s neglected second city. Mishap on the Med 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Making any great dish, to her, is like making chaat — not following a specific set of rules, embracing contradictions. Chaat Is More Than the Sum of Its Many Flavors 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's there in the internal contradiction of her name: "Lady" with its suggestions of gentility, sweetness, high breeding; "Gaga" with its intimations of infantility, madness, antic spirit. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

The novel - told in monologue style as Changez relates his personal story to an unidentified American in a Lahori tea house - was acclaimed for its ambiguity and contradictions. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z

With his books, he brought Latin America's charm and teeming contradictions to life in the minds of millions of people. Twin memorials for Garcia Marquez 2014-04-22T09:39:58Z

“A modest superhero picture may sound like a contradiction in terms,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘Incredibles 2’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Struggling with that contradiction, he tries to instill what he calls “family values” in each of his restaurants, but admits that has become more difficult as his organization grows. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The husky-voiced Lewis embodies, with palpable anguish, the stinging contradictions of emotional freedom and romantic fraudulence that abound when writing these notes. ‘The Half of It’ Review: Being Yourself (and That Person, Too) 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

The latter role will probably earn Pitt his fourth Oscar nomination for acting, and “the contradiction of his three-decade career,” Willmore said, “is that his best roles are almost entirely supporting ones.” The Planets, the Stars and Brad Pitt 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Pack hired two Washington firms, McGuireWoods and Caplin & Drysdale — apparently in contradiction to federal contracting regulations and guidelines, according to internal documents. Former Voice of America overseer hired two law firms to $4 million no-bid contracts. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Run” follows a bad breakup, enfolded by lies and contradictions and divided loyalties among friends. The Playlist: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Unite, and 12 More New Songs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Ben Brantley noted that while the show “vibrates with the frenzy of its contradictions,” audiences are gamely incited to “shut up and dance.” 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cook Welder Proper Elizabeth Cook is an intriguing bunch of contradictions. Elizabeth Cook: Welder 2010-05-06T22:20:00Z

Quite simply they do not register the contradiction between rhetoric and behavior. In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z

But his strength as a political filmmaker has always resided in his ability to bring contradictions to chaotic life rather than to resolve them in any ideologically coherent proposition. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

One of the main goals of the show is to present Cuba in all of its contradictions, “a very layered Cuba of today,” said Ms. Cepero, who grew up in Cuba and left in 2006. Cuban Art Outshines Politics 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

But that duality, the contradiction, made me fall even more in love. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

But a tolerance for contradiction may simply be part of Stern’s DNA. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Cale has always been a man of contradiction: a classically trained violist with a penchant for chaos. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

He's not mellowing exactly; he moves forward in contradictions. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Its contradictions may have been captured best in Truman Capote’s “The Muses Are Heard,” his 1956 dispatch from a touring company’s historic stop in the Soviet Union. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Serpell engaged this lineage not to provoke, she said, but to find a way into the porousness, and contradiction, of human longing. A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Somebody with a penchant for innovation, and yet also devotion to writing a dictionary, in some ways sounds like a contradiction. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

In my favorite of his stories, “The Mountain”—it’s available in English in a short-fiction collection called “The Wandering Earth”—mountain climbing is proposed as a metaphor for this contradiction. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Sensitive to the ways historical narratives can rub out the rough patches of reality, Spufford finally becomes disenchanted with nonfiction and embraces novel writing as a better vehicle for capturing ambiguity, ambivalence and contradiction. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Drawing on both the contradictions and the richness of his heritage, Tavaziva combines African and contemporary dance and music in this new double-bill. This week's new dance 2011-03-19T00:06:51Z

It seems to me that in the pages of these Swedish police procedurals, all those years ago, Sjöwall and Wahlöö were examining contradictions that the British left even now refuses properly to acknowledge. Can Scandinavian crime fiction teach us something about socialism? 2011-02-24T09:00:03Z

The novel will give you a sense of the contradictions and mythologies at play at the time of the Carnation Revolution, which led to the end of the dictatorship in 1974. Read Your Way Through Lisbon 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Even when she was writing songs alone and recording them in a bedroom with her laptop, Margolin embraced bold contradictions. A Band ‘About Being Messy and Chaotic’? Porridge Radio Finds Its Moment. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Before I prod her toward this glaring contradiction, Campbell is already laughing at herself – she has a raucous guffaw that doesn't quite fit her dainty appearance. 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z

That contradiction always inspired me, and I think it’s a reflection of the Cameroonian character, maybe the African character.” Searching for the Past in Cameroon, Only to Find It Is Still Very Present 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Cornel West elaborates on the contradiction between the refrain and rejoinder. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

The investment firm also owns Weight Watchers, which is either a grand contradiction or perfect synergy. How a plus-size clothing label dug out of bankruptcy: Body pride, diversity and Instagram 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The film is so eager for people to adopt dogs that it doesn’t address its own contradiction: that shelters are jammed partly because not everyone can be a successful owner. Critic’s Notebook: Dogs on TV, Beyond the Whispering 2012-05-29T18:19:29Z

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions — there’s all this contradictory information inside a human personality.” The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z

But “The Lightning Thief” is stranded in the contradictions of its ambition. Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

And despite the continued strength of the Beyhive’s support, by the end of the decade, contradictions continue to haunt the brand of the Knowles-Carters as a powerful Black family. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The Welles film teaches that every man is a mystery, to himself no less than those around him; yet Charles Foster Kane bursts off the screen in all his sad, selfish and seductive contradictions. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z

More important, it feels true in its complexities and contradictions, in its emotional push and psychological pull. ‘Violette,’ About the French Author Violette Leduc 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He receives, as he puts it, “my own education in human contradiction.” Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays 2013-12-31T12:45:00Z

A staunch feminist, this new life was filthy with contradiction. Poker for girls: In New York’s male-dominated world of underground poker, I found my true strength 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Even today Ayckbourn retains his sharp eye for the contradictions in our social and political system. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z

Miguel doesn’t resolve the tensions and contradictions, much less smooth them over. Review: Miguel’s ‘Wildheart’ Features R&B and Clashing Impulses 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

By this time, anti-Trump conservative writers were noting the gross contradiction between Trump’s nasty populism and the pure conservatism that they took Ted Cruz to stand for. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

And at another: “Don’t ask me to resolve the contradiction.” Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Quinn’s statement was a direct contradiction of her mayor Mike Bloomberg’s assessment that banning eating establishments is “just not government’s job.” Happy Chick-fil-A Day! 2012-08-01T20:35:00Z

To understand the late 's peculiar genius, however, you must see him as just that, and accept there is no contradiction. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z

"My thinking moves so quickly how could it not be full of contradictions?" he asks. A life in writing: Slavoj ?i?ek 2011-07-15T21:55:00Z

By this time, Wolf is a world-renowned hero of the Web, but he’s also a roiling mess of internal contradictions and anxieties, a scornful critic of himself and his medium. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout, though, those determined to follow tracks as they seek answers are warned by colleagues, suspects and fathers to watch their step, ignore contradictions, to walk away altogether. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Boots on the Ground 2014-04-23T03:22:49Z

“There is an inherent contradiction between his position and his actions that I tried to bring out in the film as best I could,” Mr. Lewis said. Nat Hentoff Is the Subject of David Lewis’s New Documentary 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Wallace is caught in a familiar set of contradictions. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Yet it is the Matisse that seems two-dimensional next to the Picasso: there are simply more perceptual and imaginative layers, contradictions, tensions in the art of Picasso. Why Picasso is the apex of art 2013-02-06T15:02:00Z

How do you avoid near repetition or occasional contradiction? Let Us Now Praise Mike Nichols 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

This iteration is a bundle of contradictions: warm yet cautious. Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It’s on Her Terms 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Madiba” isn’t uniformly adoring: It registers some of the contradictions and uncomfortable realities of the apartheid struggle, such as the violent infighting among black groups and the subordinate role of women. Review: ‘Madiba,’ a Stately but Static March Through Mandela’s Life 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Many contradictions reside within Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra, who must beguile even at her most irritatingly manipulative, as the play opens with an Egyptian-style bacchanal. Seattle Shakes' 'Antony and Cleopatra' a full-scale telling of fascinating classic 2012-11-06T00:15:09Z

It was in its contradictions and complications that the spirit of Dada thrived. ‘Destruction Was My Beatrice,’ by Jed Rasula 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The gallery planted in the orange chairs looks up as Rugby passes by, appearing magnificently regal, in perfect contradiction to what a long, goofy life he led. All We Can Do: a short story by T.M. Shine

The Roman Catholic Church, as Sorrentino presents it, is a throbbing tangle of contradictions where spirituality and corruption coexist in flamboyant contradiction, often within its individual members. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Great Beauty’ and Iowa Caucus Coverage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

In the face of this contradiction, Frieze New York, on view through Sunday on Randalls Island in an improved tent structure, is arguably the most resourceful. Amid the Bloat at Frieze, Art Worth Seeking Out 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

A walking contradiction, her overall style telegraphs an easy self-assurance. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z

The theme begins to work at all sorts of cross-purposes and contradictions: Is motherhood the surest source of strength and security? Perspective | In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Homeland,’ two heroines judged by their devotion to motherhood 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s really all these contradictions wrapped up in one.” Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The job of documenting and interpreting the history has been left to the museum, and it is an undertaking pockmarked with contradictions. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z

There’s a contradiction built into the phrase “true crime”: Most of that booming genre’s most popular works depend, for their effect, on the unknowability of the truth. True Crime and the Satisfaction of the Unsolved Mystery 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

But this narrative never engages with both historical lessons of “actually existing socialism” or experiments in “African socialism”; it never deals with the fundamental contradiction between nationalism and socialism. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z

And yet–this is the contradiction that Mad Men shows us over and over–the world changes anyway. Why Mad Men Needed Betty 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Until then, though, few if any of them had puzzled over the apparent contradiction between Cruz’s pure conservatism and the populist reaction the Tea Party obviously stood for. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Thinking About the Margins Dear Thinking About the Margins, Thank you for your letter, and thank you for your thoughts, particularly about the tricky contradictions inherent in living as consciously gay. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Curiously, in seeming contradiction to the title, the overall construction and its inner chambers are not actually exactly square. Review: Robert Irwin Shows a Calming Installation at Dia:Beacon 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levy is excellent on Twain, on his drawl, his gait, his evolution on race matters — from youthful racism to passionate believer in the reparations owed former slaves — and even better on his contradictions. ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, she encompasses them in all their contradiction, laying them out in breathtakingly skillful juxtaposition. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Allen’s Judaism isn’t intellectual and it isn’t historical; it’s personal, rooted in the specific milieu of his upbringing, the American urban cluster of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and he imbues Bobby with its peculiar contradictions. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Since frivolous means “lacking in seriousness” — also lightweight, flippant, of little weight or importance — that would seem a contradiction in terms. On the Frivolities of Ballet, the Contradictory Art 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Early on, you may perceive a seeming contradiction between the impassive serenity of these women and the agitated passion within many of the lyrics they sing. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The only solution is to opt out altogether—to reckon with that contradiction rather than pretend we can resolve it. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

At this point, it feels as if we’ve lived a life with these characters and their contradictions. ‘Nemesis’ Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

This city of eccentricities and contradictions, formerly the German city of Breslau, has yet to make a name for itself on the European travel circuit. Next Stop: Wroclaw, Poland Has Its Sights on Tourism 2010-04-24T02:57:00Z

It was a very, very hard decision, and I was aware of the contradiction. 11 Questions With Jennifer Weiner 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And like so much else in our common life, they are full contradictions, inconsistencies and outright delusions. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

This is in contradiction to Richard Sennett's view in his book, The Craftsman, that "an intelligent craftsman is in most of us". William Morris was right – true joy lies in making it yourself 2013-06-08T23:04:17Z

His eclectic works also differ from one another, but they all seem to express a particular, peculiar sensibility: elegant, eccentric, serious, wry, fascinated by contradictions, susceptible to beauty but skeptical, too. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s Autobiographical ‘Aubade’ 2014-01-28T22:32:46Z

The debate about whether communist parties ought to have a standing army, and whether or not a "people's army" is a contradiction in terms, is an old one. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

Finn tackles this contradiction brilliantly, especially given his agoraphobic heroine’s situation. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The statement is in such absurd contradiction to the sights depicted on film that you wonder, nearly 70 years later, how anyone could have bought into it at the time. Ansel Adams' Manzanar photos at Bainbridge museum 2011-07-26T04:11:47Z

Although journalists and sociologists are able to expose such contradictions, novelists have a unique ability to explore their effect on individuals. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

I wish that “American Ulysses” delved more deeply into Grant’s contradictions, yet agree with its final tally. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In the process, all the family’s contradictions and strains rise to the surface. Captain Fantastic: the bloody family drama shows a new side to Viggo Mortensen 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

And when you do that with this show, you notice an apparent contradiction: Dennis was one precocious kid, and yet he never seemed to get any smarter. When the Boy Next Door Was Evil 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z

It's this contradiction that makes Kate such a satisfying character to play. Annabel Scholey: kiss me deadly 2013-04-30T06:00:10Z

“He’s allowed to express his opinions. Personally, I don’t agree,” Fremaux said, adding however that Delon’s life was full of contradictions and that nothing was completely clear cut. Cannes Film Festival defends award to 'imperfect' Delon 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

The strength of Whelan's play is that it captures, in the spirit of Oh What a Lovely War!, the contradictions of the time. The Accrington Pals – review 2013-01-22T12:14:09Z

Todd represents the contradiction that exists between the way that fraternities present themselves and what is actually happening. "I feel like politicians are born in fraternities": "The Line" director on Greek life mindset 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Business is the act of making a profit from the world: the two things are in direct contradiction. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z

By listening to the voices of participants as they chant, argue and worry about the future, it also opens a window on the tensions and contradictions within the still incomplete revolutions of the Arab Spring. Critic?s Notebook: Documentaries at the New York Film Festival 2011-09-30T23:13:09Z

This, no doubt, was largely the result of pressure on Sedgwick from the publisher to reduce his text by an eighth, which he generally did at the expense of redundancy, digression or internal contradiction. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z

Anyone interested in the truth of the matter must acknowledge a series of contradictions: It’s possible to find fault with Cam Newton’s behavior without assigning it any moral value to it. Racist vitriol pours down on Cam Newton: Single-minded haters rush to judgement after a rough Super Bowl 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

As Turturro observes in his introduction to the film, the abundant emotion of Neapolitan music is often infused with contradiction and tragedy. "Passione": John Turturro's musical postcard from Naples 2011-07-01T17:31:00Z

And what is truly astonishing is the way he combines Lear's spiritual trajectory from blind arrogance to impotent wisdom with a sense of the character's tumultuous contradictions. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z

As a gay person, you can never fully adapt to a world that is heterosexual at its base: We are an essential contradiction to many of the realities that constitute our world. Styles Q + A: Artist Eli Sudbrack’s Work Will Be on View in Soho This Week 2014-05-02T23:33:59Z

An earlier version of this article misstated the length of time since there has been an art show in the United States that has grappled with the contradictions of early-20th-century Mexican political art. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Abbasi seems enamored by the contradictions of Hanaei, who was at once an upstanding Muslim, a family man, a pervert and a ruthless killer. ‘Holy Spider’ Review: Brutality Tale 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Women, in particular, may see a glimpse of ourselves in the figure stretched on the rack of the insuperable contradictions of femininity that still torture us. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

"If/Then" gives her the opportunity to reveal Elizabeth's manifold contradictions. Idina Menzel is radiant in the flawed 'If/Then' at the Pantages 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He added: “All of us, in a weird way, are that same kind of contradiction — no one’s that simple.” ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z

"Equilibrium must be created out of opposites. Such inner peace as men gain" — and as cities gain, he might have added — "must represent a tension among contradictions and uncertainties." Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

This peculiar contradiction began to resolve itself with the pleasures of “Attack of the Clones.” What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

For American viewers right now, the contradictions that wage war within this reluctant fundamentalist are haunting and, quite possibly, terrifying. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z

The narrative is successful when the characters are authentic, with all the violence of their contradictions, because it shouldn’t be easy to like them. 'These stories are our defence against organised crime': the mafia on film 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Even being an actor, it's a strange contradiction. Billy Crudup opens up about playing against his usual "shattered" type in "After the Wedding 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

At his best, he’s both: a contradiction in terms. Review: A Doug Elkins Program Is Charming, Trivial Dance Soup 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The reaction to Matilda represents, in microcosm, many of the contradictions of contemporary Russian culture. Gone too Tsar: the erotic period drama that has enraged Russia 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

But it may be asking too much of “The East” — which is, after all, a twisty, breathless genre film — to wish that it would frame the contradictions of contemporary capitalism more rigorously. Movie Review: ‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling 2013-05-30T20:11:16Z

To see them now, before they’re gone, felt like an immense privilege — even as I was forced to confront the contradictions that arise from the amount of carbon I expended getting to them. In Ontario’s Ice Caves, Nature Sculpts Beauty from Wind, Waves and Cold 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

He wasn’t afflicted with the myopia of personal brand promotion that plagues many athletes and his engagement with the inequities and contradictions of his world remains unprecedented even today. Another gift Muhammad Ali gave us: Refusing to hide as Parkinson’s progressed 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Highbrow genre fiction” might sound like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, but it’s not. Review | Forget the bestseller list: These lesser-known works deserve your attention 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

That he could not — or would not — envision a middle ground, a place where ordinary, messy life might flourish with all its complications and contradictions, was his tragedy. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

“The Absurd Man,” Jackson’s erudite fifth collection, examines the contradictions and possibilities in our search for meaning. In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

In contrast, a scene where Andrew asks Rayburn questions about his kill, detecting contradictions in his story, goes nowhere. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Groupings of artworks also highlight contradictions for African-Americans who might fight alongside whites to protect American freedoms, yet still have trouble reaching full equality, according to Erin Falker, an assistant curator at the museum. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

But there had been long debate about contradictions in the cultural boycott and the fact that, because conservatives easily flouted it, it sometimes affected anti-apartheid organisations more than others. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

You reveal contradictions and his dubious efforts to protect himself with information that he claims but cannot prove, or the outright lies he told. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

"Because then they will see how many contradictions and inconsistencies there are between the gospels," he explains, "instead of this single monolithic story." 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z

This year, at least, the contradictions will be heightened. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He is exquisitely attuned to the capital’s contradictions and nuances, and he knows how to listen to its inhabitants. A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

And if you see "poetic" only as a positive value judgment, the idea of bad poetry must be a contradiction in terms. On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z

“His fidelity as a writer was not to the truth but to his own contradictions, and reading him today is like tuning into a radio station whose frequency keeps changing.” Review | ‘Burning Man’ presents D.H. Lawrence in all his flawed brilliance 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

She’s a world of contradictions: earthy and ethereal, angular and soft. Review: Wendy Whelan’s ‘Restless Creature’ Is Full of Jagged Rhythms 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Multiple versions of the story of King Arthur and his knights already existed, in French and English; Malory drew on several, without unpicking their contradictions and duplications – so his version feels strangely uneven. Le Morte d'Arthur: The RSC throw down the gauntlet 2010-06-06T20:31:00Z

And, of course, it was and is full of contradictions: A radically new secularism founded it, and a political-religious fervor came to define it. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Billy's a bit of a bruiser but he has this boyish insanity and some interesting contradictions: he's a liar but he's also incredibly honest. Sam Rockwell – last of the goofballs 2012-12-06T12:55:03Z

The contradictions of connectivity are the real challenge for Generation Z and for society at large. Who are Generation Z? The latest data on today's teens 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Naples is a city of contradictions, of ornate Baroque palazzos alongside derelict housing, of unrelenting and unruly traffic and an official unemployment rate of 21.5 percent, twice the national average. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

We’ve also revisited a handful of films that speak to some of the contradictions of their moment — and our moment too. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In the end, many speakers at this year’s ceremony ended up addressing the binaries and contradictions in the air, if not quite apologizing for them. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is Still Alive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Their conflicts and contradictions are unresolved, their catalogue is frozen, and their final performances are just that. Postscript: Phife Dawg, 1970-2016 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Even in that self-appointed role, however, Stern’s path through the architecture scene has been spiked by curious contradictions, as seen in the course of his tenure at Yale. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Begley’s approach will appeal to fans of Updike’s body of work, but it doesn’t fully explain Updike’s contradictions. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z

Republican politics have long been built upon an uneasy fusion that aims to bind together libertarian and traditionalist values, despite their apparent contradictions. How conservative comic Greg Gutfeld overtook Stephen Colbert in ratings 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

There are complications and contradictions, though, as well as unruly girls and women. Review: ‘Sand Storm’ Follows a Bedouin Mother and Daughter in Quiet Revolts 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

But there was an interesting contradiction that some were also overtly sexist, vulgar and wild. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

I wanted to create a character, a nun, who embodied this contradiction. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Just as reality cannot be fully expressed in language, it also resists confinement to a single belief system: “We live in a world full of contradictions. . . . and ideology cannot stand contradictions.” Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

A man of contradictions — in other words, a human being. My dad’s gone off the rails 2012-11-07T01:00:00Z

It discusses the Chautauqua movement, an educational program that saw no contradiction between summer and sinking deep into difficult texts. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

She also chronicles the knotty contradiction of grief, a form of suffering both unique and banal — banal in the sense that grief happens all the time and to everyone. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The new documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything” presents the early rock ’n’ roll performer as a man of many contradictions. Late Night Laughs at Elon Musk’s SpaceX Explosion 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

While architectural writer Oliver Wainwright says that it’s a building that “embodies its complexities and contradictions.” Roundup: More on Washington's new museum, Obama and the arts, the Rams video that is definitely performance art 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

I really try to focus on hypocrisies and contradictions. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Even in a city premised on cross-pollination and contradiction, where good forces and bad forces are often allowed to co-mingle, outsiders could never accept the Calliope on its own terms. A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

No. Its conclusion is that God exists—a claim that is controversial but not, like Zeno’s conclusion, in direct contradiction to what we see every day. Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

And Guirgis makes sure that every person onstage is filled with the contradictions that are part and parcel of being human. ‘Halfway Bitches’ Review: A Play as Unruly as Life Itself 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

She was drawn to the thickets of ambiguity and contradiction. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

His dialogue is fueled by vacillation, equivocation and contradiction, with sentences that seem to eat their own words. Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Tell Lies to Live by in ‘Lobby Hero’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Fiction, Barnes writes in Nothing to Be Frightened Of, "wants to tell all stories, in all their contrariness, contradiction and irresolvability". The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z

This is a seamless and amazing sequence of wry contradictions. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z

One element that remains at the heart of Algiers is a series of inherent contradictions that the band, like all the best philosophy-minded but reality-grounded artists, embrace. Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

And those are only two of the contradictions built into this offering at the Crossing the Line festival. Dance Review: One Definition of Collaboration: Putting Heads Together, Then Taking Turns 2011-10-14T23:15:59Z

Post reviewer Michael Lindgren wrote, “A subtle and moving exploration of the boundaries and contradictions of ethnic identity shimmers through these stories like a melody.” The 2016 finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

In public, her persona seemed always open to revision, defined by afterthoughts, contradictions and qualifications. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Like the King document, it would serve as a reminder of the conflicts—the contradictions—that come with public service. A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

It may be a contradiction, but please do remember to binge in moderation. Pretty Much Everybody Is Binge-watching TV 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

But the app also serves up a buffet of content that only smooths those contradictions into unnerving new forms. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

“He is the perfect meritocratic neoliberal artist, for whom there is no contradiction between being all about the money and holding to traditional notions of genius,” Stallabrass added. Damien Hirst and the Art of the Deal 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Nowadays, the city is awash in contradictions and culture: gritty, gray and raw in most parts, but serene, cobblestoned and quiet in others. Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z

“I thought I could ignore the contradictions. I thought they were not part of the story. I was wrong. They are becoming the story.” Two sides to every story: Whitney, Tupac, Assange and the trouble with making biopics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In a way, I was getting my own education in human contradiction. White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hunter and the Iranian president have a disconcerting way of saying preposterous things in a calm, complacent tone; both are serenely impervious to contradiction or sarcasm. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z

Inconsistencies of space are frequent and usually a source of wonderful visual tension and contradiction. Still Life: Flea Market Paintings as Art Discoveries 2012-08-28T16:24:10Z

The book deals plainly with Leonardo’s contradictions, giving the story complexity and depth, and Isaacson interweaves his subject’s contemplations of nature with his art. New in Paperback: ‘Jerusalem,’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

A man of contradictions, Mr. Bernbaum was rude and kind, distant and warm, sad and often cuttingly funny. He Banned the Yahoos and Kept the Social X-Rays Fed 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

He was also, in several works, ballet’s greatest dramatist — there is no contradiction here, for drama pervades his non-narrative work. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

What happens once we can see people for who they are and then dig deeper into their contradictions? Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Frankly, these contradictions differentiate Butterfield's sculptures from kitschy driftwood or bent-willow art and align this body of work with her previous use of scrap metal. Review: Deborah Butterfield's contemplative horses at Greg Kucera 2011-06-09T20:23:04Z

The apparent contradiction might be explained by the former group shortening their working hours and accepting less pay and other rewards. Work stress raises risk of premature death in vulnerable men - study 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In showcasing people who are persistent, clever, flawed, loving, struggling and full of contradictions, “Broke” affirms why it’s worth solving the hardest problems in our most challenging cities in the first place. ‘Broke’ Chronicles a City Out of Cash and Awash in Desperation 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

All this loads Gauguin with even greater biographical baggage and contradiction than he encumbered himself with. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z

Her contradictions were as enormous as her great gift. Elaine Stritch: I'll Miss Her 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

I don't think people think beyond the possible contradictions -- it's a project based on helping the poor, where all the top people are touring the world and being stars. New book about El Sistema paints unflattering portrait 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Twitter Chrysler's epic Twitter misfire The American auto industry is like America itself – full of complications and contradictions, frequently depressed, and occasionally prone to whopper-sized social gaffes. Chrysler's epic Twitter misfire 2011-03-10T16:45:00Z

One consequence of Kimhi’s view is that “It’s raining, but I don’t believe it’s raining” becomes a logical contradiction. Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

They risk misunderstanding and misinterpretation, bare conflicts and contradictions that are at odds with a work’s public profile and overt import. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Fieseler handles contradictions with finesse, parsing the closet’s long shadow over gay life in New Orleans, one reason the tragedy did not catalyze the kind of outrage and activism that followed the Stonewall rebellion. In 1973, an Arsonist Killed 32 People at a Gay Club. Why Has History Shrugged? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

A few times during the film, Mr. Morris catches his subject in a direct contradiction and holds the camera on his face, hoping to see him squirm, but Mr. Rumsfeld stares right back. ‘The Unknown Known’ Explores How Rumsfeld Sees Himself 2014-03-28T17:00:01Z

Felix writes about himself in the third person, too, noting in his final pages that “as always, the omniscient narrator had a very wobbly grasp of what was happening” —a contradiction and a challenge, both. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The relentless C major hammering of its finale evoked not triumph or freedom, Gielen wrote, but “affirmation without contradiction, and with it the trampling of any opposition, imperial terror.” His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Political Animals believes that a good TV show, like a good politician, can make you look past its flaws and believe in its contradictions if it inhabits them lustily enough. Sexts from “Hillary”: Political Animals’ Bawdy Alternative History 2012-07-12T12:25:31Z

This newfound faith embroiled him in a tangle of contradictions that bedeviled both him and his wife up to the moment of his death in 1910. ‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The solo — never less than intense, never remotely orthodox — is a study in contradictions; its motto might be “I contain multitudes.” Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Keller’s newer Yountville restaurants play on another American contradiction: our delight in both the high- and lowbrow. How a world-class chef blossomed in Napa Valley: The French Laundry turns 25 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

In his works, opposites combine and collide; the multiplicity of human experience is represented in music that's volatile, and full of ambiguity and contradiction. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

Ultimately, though, those contradictions would serve him well. J Balvin Is a Man With a Mission: Making Reggaeton Global 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Yet Taylor, a lifelong activist, says that she also always felt there was “a contradiction” inherent in democracy that puzzled her. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

But there is no contradiction a few nights earlier when, asked whether the issues that appeared with the Twitter campaign sounded familiar, he laughed. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

And the music they created and then generously shared with the rest of the world negotiates and reconciles the contradictions many of us would rather ignore. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The author dispenses aperçus: “Even among the unwanted there were unwanted”; “Ah, contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!” Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Yet, at its heart, it’s a tangle of contradictions. Guides for Better Living From Around the World 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

But Facebook doesn’t allow for inconsistency without amplifying it, a constant record of our obsessions and our contradictions to the point of caricature. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z

Ultimately, Argerich comes across as many contradictory things at once, without any of them being contradictions. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

But is there a contradiction here – between the lofty ideals of the Fes colloquium and ground-level realities? The Fes festival resonates in the real world 2012-06-26T07:30:02Z

It’s an early-20th-century wonderland riddled with contradictions: It’s both seedy and magical, licentious and innocent. Review | Disguised as a boy, the heroine of ‘Curious Toys’ finds freedom — and answers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Though some were decidedly unfair, it is true that contradictions simmer beneath the surface of her political image. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Narcissism is the great contradiction of my dad and the great paradox of spirituality, of which he is an icon.” Deepak Chopra’s Son Makes Him a Documentary Subject 2012-09-29T23:13:01Z

But he also exists amid a gifted company who lay bare the numerous contradictions of an infinitely rich play. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Presley's own contradictions were similar to the country's as it hurtled through a difficult and self-involved decade. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Taken together, the surviving testimony, in its contradictions, speaks hauntingly of the confusion the violence incited: a roaring, riotous tumult that everyone present seemed to experience differently. 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Isaac said that he found Pope interesting because of its contradictions. Oscar Isaac shows off his Spanish in ‘Triple Frontier’ 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice was caught on camera, which pointed up contradictions to the original police account, but will there be consequences? Eric Garner and Why Cameras Are Not Magic Wands 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Dining with him, after Biden spent the past two months crisscrossing the United States trying to sway the unvaccinated, seems like a contradiction. At fraught Tokyo Olympics, Jill Biden may win just by showing up 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

From the moment Jasmine appears on screen she’s broken, and her contradictions — along with the vodka she guzzles and the Xanax she pops — keep her in pieces. Movie Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ 2013-07-25T16:13:31Z

It’s taken her fans almost as long to absorb all the intricately wound contradictions, political theories and jazzy riffs inside her masterpiece. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

One consequence of a participatory approach to content is the readers’ tendency to pass on their contradictions. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

There is, though, an alternative approach – and that is to revel in the contradictions between setting and genre. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z

"Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know?" says Coelho, his brown eyes sparkling. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

This is the moment where the contradiction or hypocrisy that always lies within this kind of movie -- if you ditch your wife, you'll get an amazingly hot chick! "Middle Men": Heroes of the Internet-porn revolution 2010-08-05T15:01:00Z

More often than not, this is one of flagrant contradictions. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

There is a contradiction between the idiosyncrasies and the melody and between the hard parts and the beautiful parts you hear. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

His performance conveyed the pure youth of this brave new world, with all its contradictions and energy. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Over the last 10 days, Gawker’s backed-up internal contradictions have come bubbling into the open like the contents of an overheated outhouse. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Life for the Soviet players was a tangle of contradictions. ‘Red Army,’ the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Dynasty 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

These contradictions sit at the heart of Eugene O’Neill’s 1942 play “A Touch of the Poet.” Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

There was an obvious contradiction between the father’s beliefs and the source of his livelihood, and squaring it wouldn’t be easy. Two Sisters Who Changed the Medical Profession 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

A giggling Fanning told reporters her blonde hair was dyed red, befitting the name of her nuclear bomb-protesting and poet title character, for the film that explores adolescence, family discord and political and moral contradictions. Elle Fanning becomes British '60s teen in new Sally Potter film 2012-10-09T15:17:30Z

Apple asks, getting right to the central contradiction of the album and maybe even her career. 2012′s bests — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z

"Which is a weird contradiction since he's very much of this digital moment." Actor Adam Goldberg, of 'The Jim Gaffigan Show,' is an analog man living in a digital world 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

He. too, is a composite figure, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, and he is caught in a moment of contradiction: success and exhaustion, accomplishment and depletion. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The rest of the program is pure P. D. Q. Bach, if that is not a contradiction in terms. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

They do so not only because they embody the city’s contradictions, but also because they are open primarily during the six-week racing meet, when Saratoga seems more Saratoga than at any other time of year. Saratoga Springs, a Food-Loving Town 2010-08-11T15:20:00Z

If Cousins is an enigma off the field, his on-field efforts reveal contradictions, too. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

I like those flawed characters who have a contradiction within themselves and are very strongly one thing while clearly doing another thing. In dark comedy "The Columnist," a reporter finds that dealing with online trolls is literal murder 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

As that rarest of things, a native Floridian, Pittman is well positioned to write the definitive guide to all these different Floridas, including the contradictions and controversies. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Then again, you could say that it’s the other way around — that the contradictions and ironies of the Mexican past manifest themselves in his moods and grudges. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The Oakland activist and journalist Davey D said it seemed like a contradiction for critics to slam the film but support Davis and Spencer. For blacks, mix of 'Help' emotions on Oscar night 2012-02-27T22:18:08Z

Unruly as his rhetorical strategies are, Ventura is ultimately quite convincing about the ineffectuality of the War on Drugs, and on the contradictions and corruptions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a particular bugbear of his. Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

His replacement, Bill Clinton, offered up his own contradictions. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s clearly what interests him—not just the contradictions and ironies of the world he lives in, but the frailties and prejudices of his own mind. “Louie” returns, as hapless and sublime as ever 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

“He is a contradiction,” said Spall, visiting Manhattan in the fall for the film’s bow at the New York Film Festival. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even so, Universal is clearly grappling with the contradictions inherent in presenting a popcorn film about a war that is still going on. Film: ?Bourne? Team Takes a Chance With Iraq War 2010-02-27T02:51:00Z

It exerts gravitational pull on people who sense a contradiction in what the nation claims to be and what it is in fact. Perspective | Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The stories in “Warmer,” which possess the urgency of a last resort and the sorrow of an elegy, inhabit this contradiction. How Climate-Change Fiction, or “Cli-Fi,” Forces Us to Confront the Incipient Death of the Planet 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

In all its contradictions — privileged but socially engaged, famous but fighting for privacy, in control but subject to the whims of her industry — the diva remains a beloved figure. What Makes a Diva? 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

"Cuba remains a Communist country, yet at the same there is the sensuality of the dress and the consumerism of the designs - there is a contradiction there that in this case coexist perfectly," Cuty said. Cuban artists paint garments, not canvases for 'Fashion Art' show 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Conscientiously pointing out the blind spots and contradictions that undermine ideals of justice and nonviolence, Ms. Bier nonetheless delivers a parable that is more soothing than disturbing. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

We sense contradiction and a great hiding, a hiddenness. Guys keep dumping me 2012-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, it would seem a bit of a contradiction to be tinkling your gold bells at the same time as regularly posing for pictures with surface-to-air missiles. Steven Seagal is now in charge of Russia-US relations. Is there anything this man can’t do? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the partnership between the civil rights movement and the McDonald’s Corporation bristled with compromises and contradictions from the beginning. The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Bragging and materialism are at war with self-consciousness and self-criticism in Mr. West’s songs; a hero of ambivalence, he slammed home all the contradictions. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

They bypassed easy insults and ignorant caricatures in favor of confrontation and analysis, forcing listeners of whatever color to think about the thorny contradictions of identity in America and to laugh at them together. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Also, I have a whole list of contradictions. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

The way Kates and Wright play Amber and Tom in Theater J’s production, you want to reach out and protect these freshmen as they reveal themselves to be mixed-up jangles of contradictions. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

In particular, he claims camp transgression for black queerness, enacting, once again, a critical stance on the contradictions and condemnations that serve to marginalise those who don't, or can't, conform. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Blatant contradiction of the two insults aside, the segment provoked national ire, even eliciting a reassuring phone call from President Obama. If the “C-Word” fits, let’s embrace it: Women don’t need to be sheltered from this one powerful insult 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the undying contradiction of "Threepenny Opera" is that it bites the hand of the politically blasé bourgeoise while also tickling it. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z

But since no movie exists in isolation, each one is accompanied by others that heighten the contradictions and flesh out essential lessons. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

At Dickens World, these contradictions just felt contradictory. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

“It set me on the path to radical activism and opened my eyes to capitalism and all its contradictions.” WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

And that history, like most, is shot through with contradictions. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

If there’s a disturbing contradiction between those things, it is best faced directly; Penn State’s trustees can no more erase Paterno from history than Stalin could erase Trotsky. Behind the Penn State scandal: A community fails to reckon with its past 2014-01-27T12:43:00Z

“The Presidency considers that this behavior is in contradiction with honor,” the spokeswoman said. France considers revoking Weinstein's Legion of Honour 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

I certainly became dimly aware of certain contradictions between the image of Ireland that I inherited and what I saw on the ground when I was there. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

In my opinion, these contradictions exist because Seinfeld is very much a product of its time – so far politically correct, but no farther. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sayles dramatizes those contradictions with wit and concision, and with determined fair-mindedness as well as outrage. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z

But you see throughout the glints of Dickens’s own personality, which, like many of those he created — some 989 named individuals — was full of energy, quirks and contradictions. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z

The world of Bangladesh is rife with contradictions. Four Countries, Five Families, Seven Decades — and One Devastating Storm 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Sam, a mass of contradictions in her own right, is just one element in a sprawling and intricate narrative machine. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

If we’re ever to break out of these cycles and deal effectively with addiction as a health issue, we have to learn to live with complexity and contradiction. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z

They’re also a sharp reminder of his absence, and how all future attempts to resolve the contradictions in the work, or to fuse fragmentary compositions, will be imperfect at best. The Unique Problem Posed by Prince’s Unreleased Songs 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Guha lets Gandhi appear on his own terms, and allows him to reveal himself in all his contradictions. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

But that gathering was a reminder to Ms. Mercein and Ms. Sanchez that the subject matter they were working with was rife with conflict, contradictions and deep emotions. ‘X’s and O’s (A Football Love Story)’ Examines a Sport’s Damage 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The character of Rosemary Howard certainly embodies the glories and contradictions of second-wave feminism, and Liz’s ambivalence about her is a barbed and brilliant illustration of the anxieties of female comic influence. Carrie Fisher, a Princess, a Rebel and a Brave Comic Voice 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Hattersley's rollicking history illuminates a dynasty marked by all the contradictions of aristocratic entitlement – of both public service and ruthless pragmatism, of complacent noblesse oblige and an appetite for the new. The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley – review 2013-05-18T14:00:02Z

While in the United States to promote his new film, Vigalondo phoned in for a conversation about the contradictions and connections between movies and real life. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

She synthesizes the character’s contradictions with stunning clarity: the elegant mind and the blind rage; the courage and the self-destructiveness. Review | A theater festival in the bucolic countryside, but boiling underneath 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

That’s the basic contradiction of our new Uber-capitalism, a model that somehow thinks it can make a profit by providing services while eliminating workers. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Its aim is not simply to serve as a memorial, or as muckraking, but to capture Khashoggi’s career in all its contours and contradictions against a backdrop of changing geopolitics. ‘Kingdom of Silence’ Review: A Spotlight on Jamal Khashoggi 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The complexity and contradictions of the narrator in Elizabeth Hardwick’s “Sleepless Nights,” a book I adore, appeal very much to me. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Even after I fully came out, late into my 18th year, I never left those contradictions behind. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

You’re well aware of these contradictions in the four pieces in this world premiere program, which ended its run at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Sunday. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z

But even an elegant solution like that ends up revealing the contradictions baked into the story’s DNA. Review: ‘Frozen’ Hits Broadway With a Little Magic and Some Icy Patches 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

As the anchor of the Shelbys and the show, Tommy displays the classic contradictions of the gangster antihero — a family man who murders without compunction. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

“I seek a similar contradiction and emotional response in the gestural movement of my paintings,” she said. How to Breathe New Life Into Martha Graham’s Dances? Infuse Them With Art. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

The young French artist possessed the natural skill, cultivated intellect and sheer, naked ambition to make the most of a social reality riven with contradictions. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

It is full of contradictions, hence its history is rich, and its legacy too. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z

But he’s less sanguine about where things are headed: The downturn has shown the contradictions of a field built on wait-your-turn hierarchy, a sense of self-importance, and a culture of sacrifice. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z