Other ideas borrowed from Brecht include dark humor, the theme of justice, and an exploration of open-ended, unresolved contradictions.

Scowling at unresolved contradictions, he studied the crea- tures.

For all Stark's unresolved contradictions, her emotional navete and thirst for esteem, her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives.

"For all Stark's unresolved contradictions . . . her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives."

During this time he realised that a problem requires an inventive solution if there is an unresolved contradiction in the sense that improving one parameter impacts negatively on another.

There is accumulated knowledge here: recognition and reconciliation, not just "intransigence" or "unresolved contradiction."

He was gazing up at Linden squarely now, letting her see his unresolved contradictions, his difficult and ambiguous answers.

This problem stems partly from unresolved and sometimes unarticulated contradictions within the movement itself.

As I wrote in last fall's piece, there's an unresolved contradiction at the heart of our war policy.

To accept an orthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions.