contradictory nature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontradictoryandnature
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contradictory
adjective
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.tər.i/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.tɚ.i/
If two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from ...
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nature
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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Many of the essays overlap, giving a dense and evencontradictorynatureto the whole, but that of course is the nature of photographs.
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There is also an ideology of musicians that reflects thecontradictorynatureof their relationship with the press.
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And yet, as emblems, they show acontradictorynature: the skyscrapers and bridges may be seen as features of the city's official, spectacular façade.
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This amalgam of liberties points to the confused and at timescontradictorynatureof writings that concerned themselves with the self.
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Yet, despite thecontradictorynatureof strict interpretations of these hypotheses, the two may not be incompatible.
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Various family law scholars have attempted to capture thecontradictorynatureof such trends.
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It is argued that the fluidity in interpretations of television images helps to explain the internallycontradictorynatureof political regimes that mobilized around them.
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Phrenology'scontradictorynaturewas, at least for a time, its strength.
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It also addresses the question of how policies on families can be formulated given the complexity, andcontradictorynature, of the values that family members hold.
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Onana is acutely sensitive to thecontradictorynatureof the state's late reform drive and its limits with regard to the broader inequities of the system.
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I should have thought that he would have seen through its totallycontradictorynature.
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Thecontradictorynatureof those accusations seems to have gone unnoticed, for smear and innuendo are what matter.
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The first thing which strikes one is thecontradictorynatureof the text.
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Has he observed thecontradictorynatureof some of the propaganda that comes out in connection with smoking and lung cancer?
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He submitted two grievances of a somewhatcontradictorynature.
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That brings me to another defect of acontradictorynature.
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The one thing about which he has been consistent is thecontradictorynatureof his statements.
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We have to recognise thecontradictorynatureof paying premia for a product that gives rise to such grave health concerns and which damages so many people's lives and health.
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A good illustration of her oftencontradictorynatureis her desire to remain single for the rest of her life.
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