The contradictory mix of high unemployment with fast growth and resilient wages is part of the conundrum that the Federal Reserve will face tomorrow, when its monetary policy committee meets to set interest rates.

A convincingly contradictory mix of small-town American folksiness and aesthetic worldliness, Mr. Langella makes you feel, as only a fine actor can, that his character is both deeply familiar and original.

There is also a contradictory mix of impulses that may be at play, particularly in how people react to the West Nile virus and the efforts to fight it.

The transition received praise as an example of SAP's corporate culture, "a seemingly contradictory mix of internal consensus and competition".

For once I felt his emotions, and they were such a contradictory mix I couldn't decide exactly what dominated.

It has been described as "a contradictory mix of Sir Henry's belief in racial superiority and (Stanshall's) genuine affection for African culture."

The show is appropriately placed in a public sculpture court - itself a contradictory mix of the urban and the pastoral, the indoors and the out.

Currier & Ives prints reflected this contradictory mix.

Some professors expressed little surprise when told of the seemingly contradictory mix of boredom and ambition.

This fact brings into focus the contradictory mix of private compassion and public scorn that characterizes American moral sensibilities today.