It's the great contradiction: the average person believes he is a better person than the average person.

It was for me a great and terrible contradiction.

They might debate, for instance, with great seriousness, whether landlordism or imperialism was the greater contradiction.

It struck me that had I sought the world over, I could not have found a greater contradiction to my impulsive uncle.

That she agreed is a sign of the great contradiction that haunts her writing and especially her life.

Have you noticed yet the great contradiction ?

And a state of contradiction too great for any single mind, even a good French one.

There can be no greater contradiction.

Sadly, reports such as these cannot see their own great contradiction.

In fact, it contains a great many contradictions.