sharp contradictions

Sharp contradictions emerged almost immediately in many states between the federal and state ratings given to local schools.

Even without such sharp contradictions, economic fireworks have a way of flaming out sooner than expected.

Perhaps it's this despairing frame of mind that leads Freud into sharp contradictions and intellectual lapses in "Civilization and Its Discontents."

If there were sharp contradictions in Cuban society under the Autenticos, the circumstances differed only in degree from the complexities and dynamics encountered in free societies everywhere (how often did Cubans compare Havana with Chicago?).Ameringer, Charles.