This event caused area residents to begin considering the issue of slavery and states' rights in starkly contradictory terms.

Mr. Felix and his companions disputed the existence of the organization, although in somewhat contradictory terms.

Perhaps an invisible Ru-bicon divided mortal and immortal morality, defining right and wrong in contradictory terms for the two races.

Later, Stalinism forced the contradictory terms under the formula "sport and body culture".

The election/exclusion logics works by means of pairs of contradictory and, therefore, mutually exclusive terms.

"Mussolini talked about imperialism in deliberately confusing and contradictory terms, but here you have exact illustrations of what he was thinking."

I am a lifelong resident of New Jersey, and it is my view that, here, representative and government are contradictory terms.

Three or four people attempted to supplement this lack, in vivid and contradictory terms.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which a pair of opposite or contradictory terms is used together for emphasis.

Secondly, economic competitiveness and a healthy society must not be contradictory terms but rather harmonious ones.