The central contradiction can be summed up thus: Mr. Pitt is a superstar who also happens to be something of a wild card.

That's the central contradiction, or tension if you want to be polite about it.

Class struggle is the central contradiction to be resolved by Marxist dialectics, because of its central role in the social and political lives of a society.

But Jefferson did not create democracy's central contradiction.

It was this longer-term exchange that Bukharin recognised as being the central contradiction in the then current situation.

That last action underlined what Hondurans and foreigners alike regard as one of the central contradictions of American policy here.

That's the central contradiction in the Way of Passivity.

Neither conservatives nor liberals have confronted the central contradictions in their ideologies on this question.

It was that central contradiction between nature and unnatural displays of animals that fascinated Ms. Hanson.

Every war novel must at some point confront a central contradiction.