paradoxology

Example Sentences

• "the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor[…]"
• "Our Smith again indulges in paradoxology. He repudiates laughing at a well-dressed philosopher sprawling in the mud, but says that the most laughable scene he ever saw in his life was the complete overturning of a very large table with all the dinner upon it."
• "I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology."
• "This manner of wit—to define and illustrate at once—prefers the paradoxology to any plainsong , is a second classroom facetiousness, a spot-lighter vein of hypercriticism, devoted to splitting hairs on the temples of truth, and putting the sob in sobriety."
• "It is the moral taught by the novelist Æsop in his story of the trial of strength 'twixt the wind and the sun to divest the traveller of his cloak— the finest political fable ever written; it is the teaching of those still more famous Christmas stories, likewise in Greek, whose paradoxology proclaims that the meek shall inherit the earth ."
• "Although whoever shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the attemptor, he will easily discern a work of this nature is not to be performed upon one legg; and should smell of oyle, if duly and deservedly handled ."