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"It's a tougher and more uneven world, and there's a certain level of contradictoriness that we just to have live with."

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2013

Les parents terribles wears its contradictoriness with a flounce: all its adults behave like children; as in Hedda Gabler, anyone who prides herself on being unconventional, isn't.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2010

But the protagonists – Patty especially – are constantly making new discoveries about themselves: redemptive insights, lessons in the contradictoriness of the human heart.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2010

But the contradictoriness of Russian behavior also goes deeper than tactics: it reflects two contrary strains in Soviet society.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this mood she sat down and wrote a long letter to her mother, full of regrets and homesickness, and longing and contradictoriness.

From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward