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“I really wanted Julian to feel like a chameleon because, as an actor, it’s just so much fun to play characters who are contradicting and complex,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

Juneteenth provides an opportunity to reflect on “the different practices or norms that are contradicting the values of freedom” and consider how to challenge those things, Harris said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2022

“But,” he added, “Weill opened up an emotional landscape where suddenly you are contradicting virtually everything that Brecht wants, or believes in, in theater.”

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Your staff who attacked her and defended you, will express annoyance that you are contradicting what they’re saying.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2017

Ah, my fine fellow," thought he, "you are contradicting yourself—you are in deep water already—you are lost.

From Monsieur Lecoq by Gaboriau, Émile