He could see celebrity here, not like Kathy's idea of a primal substance, but as a paradoxical quality inherent in the substance of the world.

The techno that had emerged from Detroit in the US had the seemingly paradoxical quality of somehow being soulful while at the same time being 100% electronic.

This dense biographical collage of images and memories of the Soviet dictator's second wife, Nadezhda, has a paradoxical quality.

She has the paradoxical quality of having a conscience but hardly any capacity for self-examination.

The 14-year-olds we meet at the start of "Girls Like Us" share an eerie, paradoxical quality.

In a short story, Natural Color for example, Updike devastatingly suggests the paradoxical quality of infidelity.

Traditional mobile-making gains a psychological edge by the inclusion of prickly, paradoxical qualities.

The flights had a paradoxical quality: The American military, after decades of cold war training to fight a hot war against the Soviet Union, arrived here to help this country feed its hungry.

In the end, the first appearance as a lecturer by Mr. Gore, the former vice president (and former newspaper reporter), had a wonderfully paradoxical quality.

Paradoxes which are not based on a hidden error generally occur at the fringes of context or language, and require extending the context or language in order to lose their paradoxical quality.