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So I guess it is no surprise he feels, it seems through his somewhat paradoxic and twisted logic, that the enemy should be used to cull friendly soldiers who fall into their hands because these troops are too weak and/or stupid and their loss will only harden the rest of the army who must then go on to smash that same enemy with as much violence and blood as possible.

Archive 2009-07-01 Edstock 2009

So I guess it is no surprise he feels, it seems through his somewhat paradoxic and twisted logic, that the enemy should be used to cull friendly soldiers who fall into their hands because these troops are too weak and/or stupid and their loss will only harden the rest of the army who must then go on to smash that same enemy with as much violence and blood as possible.

WIngnut colonels, PoWs, and recurrent themes Boris 2009

I just love the paradoxic quagmire the left-wing have got themselves into.

I Pity Gay Men Newmania 2007

The mechansim for this paradoxic response is unknown.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

Traveling in such unthinkable haste, it is paradoxic that there is much time to spare.

Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

It is paradoxic that before men have walked on Mars 'red iron-oxide plains and breathed its thin cold air, or fought for life in the formaldehyde gales of Venus, that they should look upon a world which welcomes them from illimitable remoteness.

Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

There was the paradoxic gentleness of all the jeep's motions because of the low gravity.

Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities William George Jordan 1896

This quiz completely ignores the problem of the intrinsic paradoxic nature of reality.

Pharyngula 2010

And then suddenly and without shock -- like the shifting of the wood smoke -- the mood veered, and there was nothing but I. Space and eternity were I.- vast projections of myself, tingling with my consciousness to the remotest fringe of the outward swinging atom-drift; through immeasurable night, pierced capriciously with shafts of paradoxic day; through and beyond the awful circle of yearless duration, my ego lived and knew itself and thrilled with the glory of being.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927