Still, I never felt I counted for less as a reporter here, perhaps because Afghan men, like Afghan society, can contain seemingly irreconcilable contradictions.

But the reason we care about these works is not that they express irreconcilable contradictions or exile.

This was a world of irreconcilable contradictions.

Mr. Gibson's portrayal of Cookie, a creature of seemingly irreconcilable contradictions, weaves his complexities into a warm, surprisingly credible characterization.

But the setting, an ornate monument to a tyrant, seemed to capture all the irreconcilable contradictions of his role.

He can't help but speak his mind, out of which spring confounding ideas and conventionally irreconcilable contradictions.

It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.

An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative.

It is possible in the short term and even the midterm, but eventually these irreconcilable economic contradictions will pull the European single currency apart.

Since the burglars want to access the safe in the panic room where Meg and her daughter Sarah are hiding, there is an irreconcilable contradiction of freedom and safety.