adverb

• In a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory way.

  sentence adverb ‘the strength of capitalism is, paradoxically, also its weakness’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The dog paradoxically calls our attention to the hat floating above its head.’
  • ‘In the West, paradoxically, zoning laws were the last line of defence against the egotistical urges of private landowners.’
  • ‘Paradoxically, considering the elaborate strategies for secluding the house, privacy disappears at night.’
  • ‘Paradoxically, the number of use patent claims is almost inverse to the number of scientific papers published on each issue.’
  • ‘Each panel has a visual autonomy that, paradoxically, enhances the painting's sense of unity.’
  • ‘The sky becomes a flat cut-out shape which paradoxically appears to dissolve the more solid forms of skyscrapers on either side.’
  • ‘Paradoxically, she both benefited from and was threatened by these collections.’
  • ‘Paradoxically, in order to preserve her vision, Lucy must shut it down.’
  • ‘Somewhat paradoxically, the first 'death' seems to mark Jane's psychic birth, the beginning of her struggle to identify herself.’
  • ‘She paradoxically attacks her children to preserve them from enslavement.’