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Example sentences for "paradoxically"

Lexicographically close words:
parados; paradox; paradoxa; paradoxes; paradoxical; paradys; paradyse; paraffin; paraffine; paraffined
  1. The result is social fragmentation, even within the assumed boundaries of a common language, which nations are supposed to be, and paradoxically survive their own predicted end.

  2. Paradoxically though, business leaders argued for education and proclaimed their support for schools and colleges.

  3. Disintegration itself--in a paradoxically pathetic attempt at reconstruction--had built Glendale.

  4. I noted with amusement that the Church Parade was guarded by beadles from the intrusion of the ill-dressed, and the spectacle of over-dressed Jews paradoxically partaking in it reminded me of the object of my search.

  5. New means of observation have from time to time opened up new fields, yet with all the extensions of our knowledge we come, paradoxically enough, to realize but the more fully the limitations of that knowledge.

  6. It may even be paradoxically said that since man owes some of his greatest and most beautiful achievements to sorrow, it must be a joy and a blessing to suffer.

  7. And, paradoxically enough, he was glad Herbert was living on a higher plane--it strengthened him in his own purely spiritual devotion to the beautiful friend of his soul.

  8. It was with a renewed sense of inferiority to his cousin, paradoxically combined with an inward raging against the Lindley Murrays of art, that Matt abandoned point after point under Herbert’s searching criticism.

  9. Paradoxically enough, it was now the turn for the papacy to exploit the name of Crusade for political ends, as the laity had done before; and it was left to the laity to champion the spiritual meaning of the Crusade even against the papacy.

  10. They had come, Saul said, to bring peace out of dissension, but they had paradoxically arranged themselves in readiness for conflict.

  11. My wife and family loved me; and paradoxically I still had affection for them, or thought I had.

  12. Her very manner of camaraderie seemed paradoxically to increase the distance between us.

  13. Sometimes, in those conversations, she was somewhat paradoxically impelled to defend her sister.

  14. And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost.

  15. The answer is that in the theory of democracy, as well as in that of Christianity, individualism and co-operation are paradoxically blended.

  16. Caution, my dear Kronberg, if I may fall into epigram, is frequently and paradoxically the mother of disaster.

  17. Just at present, he was persuaded Will Deverill was on the eve of “getting himself into an entanglement” with the beautiful milkmaid who so paradoxically preferred his society to Florian’s.

  18. Each big rock thus stood paradoxically perched on the summit of a conical pillar, called locally an earth-pyramid, and forming, Florian thought, the most singular element in this singular landscape.

  19. It has been paradoxically argued by an English writer that individualism could not reach its highest point except in a socialistic community; i.

  20. We had let ourselves feel comfortable in the lulling security of the trenches, which paradoxically kills men.

  21. Yes, in the trenches it was the same; they had settled down once more into the lulling secure feeling of the protection of a dirt wall, six feet high, which paradoxically ends by killing them.

  22. Paradoxically I feel rich, even though it's a long shot that I'm broke flat.

  23. With growing coolness paradoxically there burned hotter the flame of an elemental wrath.

  24. Paradoxically enough for a butcher, Mr. Unwin had admired life more than anything else.

  25. Her own hair, paradoxically enough, came to be considered an unnatural color.

  26. This tendency to take well-worn paths, paradoxically enough, is responsible both for the transfer of verbs from the strong to the weak declension, and for the transfer of certain others from the weak to the strong.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paradoxically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.