"Now, really, Dodo," said Celia, with rather a deeper guttural than usual, "you are contradictory: first one thing and then another.
Lydgate had so many times boasted both to himself and others that he was totally independent of Bulstrode, to whose plans he had lent himself solely because they enabled him to carry out his own ideas of professional work and public benefit—he had so constantly in their personal intercourse had his pride sustained by the sense that he was making a good social use of this predominating banker, whose opinions he thought contemptible and whose motives often seemed to him an absurd mixture of contra
He was standing two yards from her with his mind full of contradictory desires and resolves—desiring some unmistakable proof that she loved him, and yet dreading the position into which such a proof might bring him.
What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe.
I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate.
Get outside of yourself This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand.
Get outside of yourself This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand.
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.
Pence's speech perpetuated Trump's consistently contradictory approach to dealings with China: on the one hand, he wants to build a close friendship with China's leader, but, on the other, he has no qualms about criticizing China's foreign policies and portraying China's domestic economic and social policies as appalling conspiracies.
Not surprisingly, they had contradictory impulses: ,: Wozniak wanted to sell them for about what it cost to build them, , but Jobs wanted to make a serious profit.
So far studies have shown contradictory results - owning a pet can help prevent certain hypersensitivity disorders, make no difference at all, or make them worse.
" Mr Trump has made a handful of comments which some observers have criticised as contradictory and vague.
Get outside of yourself This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand.
There has been plenty of research, but much of it is inconclusive or contradictory.
BERLIN — A week at the American Academy in Berlin leaves me with two contradictory feelings: one is that Germany today deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and the other is that Germany tomorrow will have to overcome its deeply ingrained post-World War II pacifism and become a more serious, activist global power.
Any attempt to pose economic development and environmental protection as diametrically contradictory is simple-minded.
Work and play are two important parts in people's life, but some times they are contradictory, whether we can balance them has much to do with our success.
Secondly, college students are in a perplexed and contradictory age.
Get outside of yourself This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand.
Of the 300 books that have been published about Marilyn since her death, fifty are full-length accounts of only the last week in her life and the multiple, conflicting, contradictory and often downright fantastical conspiracy theories that have grown up around her demise.
