- or the
surname Noyes as
composed of "no" plus "yes", or
refers to some
oxymoronic candidates as puns
through the
conversion of
nouns into verbs, as in "divorce...
- ****ing with
faint praise is an
English idiom,
expressing oxymoronically that half-hearted or
insincere praise may act as
oblique criticism or condemnation...
- if they don't meet
halakhic standards.
Diner points out the term is “
oxymoronic,”
creating an
illusion of
kashrut where the true
emphasis is on a style...
- desires.
Julius Caesar, The
Gallic War 3.18
festina lente hurry slowly An
oxymoronic motto of Augustus. It
encourages proceeding quickly, but
calmly and cautiously...
-
download of new content. Furthermore, this led to the
creation of the
oxymoronic term "on-disc DLC" for
content included on the game's
original files but...
- be more
appealing to the user and
market than the reverse. As to the
oxymoronic title,
Gabriel calls it a caricature,
declaring the
style bad in comparison...
- gave the
album 4.5
stars out of 5,
calling it "an
album whose subtly oxymoronic title suggests the
inherent contradictions of its sound." Mark Richardson...
-
Replaced By
Hebrew Words? Ghil'ad
Zuckermann argues that this is an "
oxymoronic"
mission impossible: "If the
nature of a
language is to
evolve in a specific...
-
terminology that would, in some
historical contexts, have been
regarded as
oxymoronic, or at
least paradoxical, and
viewed with a
degree of scare-quoted skepticism...
- and "androgenic" as well as the term "anabolic–androgenic steroid" are
oxymoronic, as
anabolic refers to muscle-building
while androgenic refers to induction...
