I should say "No" if I were not afraid ofcontradicting my former answer.
It is absurd to call him a great critic even in art, for he seldom expresses any opinion one day without flatly contradicting it the next.
I will face the chances ofcontradicting myself--I will risk discovery and ruin--anything rather than dwell on that contemptible deception of him a moment longer.
It paid me the compliment of contradicting the divination by cherry-stones.
Pedgift Senior, contradicting him with the utmost politeness.
Nature can be violated in more ways than one, and the industry with which they seek out and adopt every conceivable mode of contradicting her is matter of no small interest.
To their astonishment, he produced his diary, and such clear accounts, that there was no contradicting them.
Taken all in all, the impression made by these contradicting opinions is depressing: the confusion seems past hope," admits Prof.
At home there was official silence, and from abroad, apart from the three vital facts, came but the quacking of rumour, report after report, each contradicting the other.
And somehow the two aspects of it all, the pity and the desire to kill, existed side by side, neither overlapping nor contradicting one another.
I again and again made her repeat her story, and she again and again affirmed that she had been flogged for what she told me, none of the whole company in the room denying it, or contradicting her.
Here, contradicting himself and the facts, he limits its duration to the youth of the author.
The last couplet is a direct acknowledgment of a future state, and was probably omitted to avoidcontradicting the infidel tenets of Bolingbroke.
But, in truth, this is so far from contradictingwhat he had said of man's prerogative, that it greatly confirms it, and the Scripture account concerning it.
It is easy to prove that these optimists, who in theory find that everything is right, are perpetually contradicting themselves in practice.
Truth makes way in the world only by contradicting opinions generally received.
The judge listened with great attention until both were tired of stating the law and contradicting each other, when they unanimously requested his lordship to decide the point.
But again he esteems the soul the more subtile and fine spirit of Nature, therein contradicting himself; for how can a subtile thing be made of a gross one, and be rarefied by refrigeration and condensation?
It was Bud who spoke now contradicting his colleague.
That was an assertion which there was neither health nor wisdom in contradicting and Spurrier waited.
Nicola went on contradicting her because he could not bear the thought that her heart was filled with love to another.
Of course it was I,' he said, smiling at her contradicting him.
I was told that the vice-legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival's desires.
I know that, but that is no business of yours, and I do not grant you the right of contradicting me.
Juan thought it would be more prudent to abstain from contradicting his wife any further.
He seemed to resent, as an original insult of nature, the having given him a false index of character in his feminine beauty, and to take a pleasure in contradicting it.
The reasons were seldom intelligible, each contradicting himself and all his colleagues, and not one among the judgments having even the appearance of cohesion and consistency.
To strong, warm, sheltering affection she had never been used save in her new home; and in the love she received and returned there was much too strange and self-contradicting to be satisfactory.
There are narratives of marvels wrought by human will, chiefly in remote, but occasionally in recent times, transcending and even contradicting or overruling the known laws of Nature.
She was silent, till the touch of my hand, contradicting perhaps the harshness of my words, encouraged her to lift her eyes, full of tears, to mine.
They didn't realise that Vaughan was so accustomed to not listening to Muir's long confidences, to disputing every proposition he made, and contradicting every word he said, that he always felt lost when his friend was away.
