"His masculinity, his vulnerability, his mysterious contradictory quality of child and man, beauty and beast."

The students involved display a host of contradictory qualities: cheekiness and earnestness, progressive politics and retro sensibilities, salacity and sensitivity.

The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover.

In his proud face the contradictory qualities of good humor and ferocity are balanced.

But his eyes-his eyes had a contradictory quality I cannot express with words.

They may envy us our power and dependency, which, despite appearing to be contradictory qualities, are not.

Unfortunately, the notion that contradictory qualities can coexist in the same man seems beyond the authors' grasp.

Another problem is that contradictory qualities, namely knowledge and ignorance, are attributed to Brahman.

It was hard to pin him down, because he had such contradictory qualities.

But perhaps the event was in keeping with the contradictory quality of the life of the honoree himself, Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838).