But it does appear odd that such a profound contradiction is to be found in both universes..." Light flickered, startlingly blue, beyond the door frame.

Women's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce.

For Gabriel, to whom honor meant everything, the statement was a profound contradiction to all that he believed.

"I have seen all around me profound contradictions, colleagues who speak about Arabs in an unspeakable way," she said of de Man's anti-Semitism.

It would be difficult to imagine more profound contradictions of value or meaning than those made manifest by this circumstance.

In any case few statesmen grasped that there was a profound contradiction between the economic and the social policies being pursued by the government.

He was faltering badly by 1934, which historians ascribe to the profound contradictions in NRA policies, compounded by heavy drinking on the job.

What is more, there is also a profound contradiction: on the one hand we are closing our borders, while on the other we are starting to make overtures to the top-level workers that these countries have.

However, one of the main lessons of the referendums in France and the Netherlands was surely that they revealed a profound contradiction between the will of the people and the 'parliamentary majorities'.

It is an excellent report, which has demonstrated profound and serious contradictions in this area, which is such an important part of the building of Europe.