Mr. Jones is a dancer-actor with charisma to burn and a paradoxical combination of ferocity and reserve.

Its paradoxical combination of anonymity and intimacy provides fertile ground for admissions that might never be aired in "real" life.

Like all the elves, Juraviel's eyes possessed that strange and paradoxical combination of innocence and wisdom, of youth and great age.

They look as world-weary as the sculptures are otherworldly, and that paradoxical combination is potent.

For all their diversity, the works in this exhibition share the paradoxical combination of iconoclasm and reverence for tradition that is characteristic of Japanese culture today.

Earth was the paradoxical combination of high-level technology and low-level sociology, likely to autodestruct in the near future.

"She's almost a paradoxical combination of femininity and toughness in her professional life," Mr. McLaughlin said today.

Thus were Vulcans a paradoxical combination of standoffish and yet intimate.

The French style of play is renowned for its paradoxical combination of rugged physicality and inspired grace.

Côte-Rôtie wine typically exhibits an almost paradoxical combination of meat aromas (including bacon) and floral aromas.