20 examples of paradoxically in sentences

She estimated swiftly that, paradoxically, her only power over him was that of powerlessness; while she lay here hers was, in a way, the advantage.

The balloon seemed to leap upwards, swerved like a frightened bird, and then, caught by the wind, sailed upward and seaward, swooping on with a paradoxically smooth yet uneven flight.

But, poor as they were, they had their telephone,a fact that struck us paradoxically in many a poor cabin as we went along.

This peculiarity of memory led Professor James to suggest, paradoxically, that we learn to skate in summer and to swim in winter.

This most vulnerable spot of the entire German Empire was, paradoxically, in France.

Dot, as we have seen, was impelled in this direction from no merely sentimental impulse, unless the religious impulse, which paradoxically makes nuns of disappointed mothers, may so be called.

Nagel, in Mysterier, is shown as a fool, an eccentric intolerable in ordinary society, though he is disconcertingly human, paradoxically sane.

Yes, she did, she wanted a good time, which was somehow paradoxically hard to attain.

With growing coolness paradoxically there burned hotter the flame of an elemental wrath.

Paradoxically, she had not expected to hear that word.

Paradoxically I feel rich, even though it's a long shot that I'm broke flat.

The way her hand brought her apron-corner up to her mouth, as though to stifle the fear that shook her, was so groping, somehow, so uncertain, that, paradoxically, the pitifulness of it reacted to make him savage.

These ear-marks are complementary and, yet, paradoxically antipodal.

After his return he was, after several years of delay and of growing unpopularity, compelled to agree to another constitution which was forced on him, paradoxically enough, by the joint efforts of the Tsar and of the Sultan, who seemed to take an unnatural pleasure in supporting the democratic Serbians against their successful colleague in autocracy, who had done so much for his turbulent subjects.

A gasping, heart-breaking knowledge that you could not possibly keep up with the people with whom, paradoxically enough, you were supposed to spend your leisure hours.

" TIMELESSNESS The inspirations of genius come from a failure of attention to life, which, all paradoxically, brings visionthe power to see life clearly and "see it whole."

If I may speak somewhat paradoxically, even the soul of a sleeping person is in some sort asleep; but not so the soul of a dead man; that is awake.

Paradoxically speaking, if there is not too much of the bad money, it is just as good as the good money.

# Insurance, without question a highly useful thing, appears, paradoxically, to be in its outer form a bet.

Cold and bitter and bleak howled the November blast, and ruthlessly drove the sleet against the shivering panes, exposed without, though shielded within by Venetian folding shutters, on that gray morning, when a passing whisper from most unlovely and altogether unfaithful lips nerved me paradoxically to sudden resolution.

20 examples of  paradoxically  in sentences