Yet teachers face a cruel paradox: Americans tell them the profession is vitally important yet continue to discount it.

In one of the cruel paradoxes of the cold war's end, residents here could no longer ignore their dangerous secret.

But once again, that cruel paradox: if he didn't, the sacrifice was in vain.

Through the life of his title character, the author depicts the cruel paradoxes in 20th-century Ireland.

The cruel paradox of this first week made itself known on Monday night.

This is a cruel paradox in light of the important economic role black churches have always played in the lives of African-Americans.

Mrs. Johnson said she felt caught in a cruel paradox because people cannot get beyond the color of her husband's skin.

But this, I fear, is yet another of life's twisted and cruel paradoxes.

"Within this panorama, however, lies a cruel paradox," the two architects write.

But once here the Soviet immigrants are discovering a cruel paradox.