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Перевод: paradoxical

[прилагательное]
парадоксальный; необычный

Тезаурус:

1. He is keenly aware of the paradoxical gulf between British standards in distance events, and the much-lauded strength of our sprinters.
2. Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female, where the divine can be feminine, yet women are profoundly mistrusted.
3. This underscores the paradoxical nature of these investments: while they invest in notoriously volatile markets, the returns they produce are extremely solid, as befits an investment which is also a hedge.
4. Women's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce.
5. Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters - in each of these roles Hindu women function in a paradoxical way which reflects this male attitude towards their sexuality.
6. Lord Hailsham, a former Lord Chancellor, said it was paradoxical that a Government dedicated to privatisation should produce a bill whose object was to nationalise the judiciary and the legal profession.
7. About agoraphobia and claustrophobia and the paradoxical desire to be let out into unconfined space, the wild moorland, the open ground, and at the same time to be closed into tighter and tighter impenetrable small spaces - like Emily Dickinson's voluntary confinement, like the Sibyl's jar.
8. Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain.
9. But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself: the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman, and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people's expectations.
10. On a purely aesthetic level, one is frequently haunted by his (at first sight paradoxical) defence of Milton's preference far Hebrew over Greek lyrics.
11. Paradoxical though it may seem, the problems it raises are best approached through English law.
12. Nothing about the Fifties was more paradoxical than the role women played in it.
13. But faith, it would say, is a deliberate defiance of what reason says, a leap into the dark that accepts that which it claims is "absurd" or "paradoxical".