contradictory form

The fascination has come in apparently contradictory forms: fear and innocence.

Which of course assume all manner of contradictory forms.

In fact, of all literary genres, diaries remind us of the fragmentary nature of history, its partial and often contradictory form.

The internally contradictory form, waltzing, as a genre, cuts across classes, and, as a practice, is inscribed in the overall relations of cultures and classes in the period.

Ross also objects to Aristotle's criticism that Form Otherness accounts for the differences between Forms and purportedly leads to contradictory forms: the Not-tall, the Not-beautiful, etc.

Under party control, Soviet-style socialism may well take contradictory forms: less freedom or more; stronger, more orthodox indoctrination or in increased flexibility in cultural and political life and in ways of running the economy.

In between, she discusses those contradictory forms of masculinity through an impressive range of discourses - sociological, social-psychological, psychoanalytic, radical feminist, fictional and so on - always exemplifying her points with examples drawn from concrete social and political practice.

From these seemingly unrelated musical compositions Morley reflects on the meanings of music in its many contradictory forms: the avant-garde and pop, the iconic and the obscure, the mechanical and the digital, the commercial and the creative, the human and the robotic.

The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship, but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory, thus 'individual landed property (of the different families) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property, nor as mediated by the community but the other way round.