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By the end of the show, the queen, Morgan said, “is wrestling with the illogicality of the system” that required such duty of her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018
While not explicitly about anorexia, Safe evokes the real experience of the illness: the self-imprisonment, the illogicality, the sense you are being eaten up from within by forces you cannot control.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2017
But the articles kick-started pressure to reform, so the age of consent was raised, while, with a certain illogicality, the minimum age of marriage for girls remained 12 until 1929.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2012
“In honour I gained them,” he said to objectors, adding with sublime illogicality, “in honour I will die with them.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I also wonder whether the Budget will try to tidy up the illogicalities of the system, or simply be about raising as much as possible?
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
He wrote: “The prophecy may be hazarded that we shall conform in time, one word in -re after another changing to -er; but we prefer in England to break with our illogicalities slowly.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2019
It is not altogether afraid of ostensible illogicalities.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2014
The creation of a baby is full of paradoxes and illogicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atheism has nothing to do with final causes, and therefore is not concerned with defending its illogicalities.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
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