"quality" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He could see celebrity here, not like Kathy's idea of a primal substance, but as a paradoxical quality inherent in the substance of the world.
- The techno that had emerged from Detroit in the US had the seemingly paradoxical quality of somehow being soulful while at the same time being 100% electronic.
- This dense biographical collage of images and memories of the Soviet dictator's second wife, Nadezhda, has a paradoxical quality.
- She has the paradoxical quality of having a conscience but hardly any capacity for self-examination.
- The 14-year-olds we meet at the start of "Girls Like Us" share an eerie, paradoxical quality.
- In a short story, Natural Color for example, Updike devastatingly suggests the paradoxical quality of infidelity.
- Traditional mobile-making gains a psychological edge by the inclusion of prickly, paradoxical qualities.
- The flights had a paradoxical quality: The American military, after decades of cold war training to fight a hot war against the Soviet Union, arrived here to help this country feed its hungry.
- In the end, the first appearance as a lecturer by Mr. Gore, the former vice president (and former newspaper reporter), had a wonderfully paradoxical quality.
- Paradoxes which are not based on a hidden error generally occur at the fringes of context or language, and require extending the context or language in order to lose their paradoxical quality.
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