Examples of using Oxymoron in English and their translations into Russian
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Isn't that an oxymoron?
An oxymoron, but true all the same.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
It's like an oxymoron, like"jumbo shrimp" or.
NOPD? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Key words: pseudo-science, oxymoron, semantics, enantiomers, epygenetics.
Mellow" and"Vegas"-- That sounds like an oxymoron.
The oxymoron nickname Lao-tse, the literal meaning of which- Old Child.
A Cleaver Greene guarantee- isn't that an oxymoron?
How is that for an oxymoron? You can learn knowledge, information, data- yes.
Doesn't everyone know that"creation science" is an oxymoron?
Simple math" is an oxymoron, whereas you're just a… 10 minute break.
Zero-emission fossil fuel power sounds like an oxymoron.
In contrast to redundancy, an oxymoron results when two seemingly contradictory words are adjoined.
As of today,"climate neutral cities" sounds more like an oxymoron than an achievable goal.
This oxymoron of decision and grace inspires the collection Sky, proposing these characteristics in every timepiece.
The phrase"a large but suspended sentence" looks,of course, like an oxymoron, but Russia knows such precedents.
However, there has long been a term for this phenomenon:"managed democracy"- another Russian oxymoron.
Muratov's poetics is built upon paradox and oxymoron, cognitive dissonance and the feeling of absolute mental freedom.
Protecting metal surfaces against rust with a water paint-sounds as much like a fairy tale as an oxymoron.
The complex simplicity oxymoron epitomizes in two words the philosophy that led the design team in the development of this project.
I note that severaldelegations have already expressed, rather convincingly, conceptual objections to this apparent oxymoron.
Abby Sciuto, NCIS resident forensic scientist, heart and soul,a paradox wrapped in an oxymoron, smothered in contradictions in terms, sleeps in a coffin.
This choice allows to the author make a special poetic oxymoron: Nicholai, who was born in May, and died in July, is likened to"a May flower", which is premature, still in the summer, mowed by death; or a young beast hunted in May when hunting is permitted only in the autumn.
As most societies exist now,their social institutions are horizontally organized(oxymoron), separated, competitive, conflicting and lacking contiguous integrity.
In fact, these Volker's words can be considered as an oxymoron, because every reasonable person understands that it is impossible to fight fire with kerosene, nor to stop the war by supplying weapons.
Scott said of his experience with cancer at the time:"One of the coolest things about having cancer, andI know that sounds like an oxymoron, is meeting other people who have had to fight it.
This latter term, which is dismissed by some as an oxymoron, argues that some regional bloc structures are better able than others to minimize trade diversion.
This ambiguity even extends todisposal in geological repositories, as indicated by technical specialists references to the oxymoron:"reversible and retrievable final disposal.
To describe the design of M/Y Sibelle the team of architects chose the oxymoron C omplex simplicity: the lines look like they are running parallel, but in reality they are not!