CYNICS may regard the phrase "political morality" as an oxymoron.
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For many people, the term "clean breakup" is an oxymoron.
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And that oxymoron, friends, could be the most confusing part.
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Democrats must also expose the oxymoron that you can love
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A perfect oxymoron - Trump doesn't care about anyone, except himself!
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The NBA's constant turnover turns intelligent forecasting into an oxymoron.
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Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron.
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It is like an oxymoron – peaceful yet full of tension.
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Trump takes a textbook oxymoron and gives it presidential form.
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The first question was whether "explicit Macron" is an oxymoron.
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TORONTO — It sounds like an oxymoron: a silent opera chorus.
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In truth, Kasich isn't some flaming moderate (how's that for oxymoron?).
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Click here to view original GIFIs "leftover Easter candy" an oxymoron?
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A few years ago, the premium e-reader was an oxymoron.
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The Lamborghini SUV might seem like the ultimate four-wheeled oxymoron.
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American isolationism is an oxymoron because America is a universal idea.
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By the mid-eighties, "feminist psychologist" was no longer an oxymoron.
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What sounds like an oxymoron neatly describes power seen as responsibility.
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"Feminist tarts" might sound like an oxymoron, but they're a real thing.
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Today it has about 229,21956 members and "young Tory" is an oxymoron.
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Is a ricotta-topped pizza an oxymoron, since it doesn't have mozzarella?
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Terry McAuliffe claimed just last week that "religious liberty" is an oxymoron.
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Going gluten-free on Thanksgiving could sound like an oxymoron to some.
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The work's effect demands an oxymoron: daintily powerful, say, or deliriously serene.
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Sanders does not want to acknowledge that Democratic socialism is an oxymoron.
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Mr. Parent went on to build an apparent oxymoron: transgressive shopping centers.
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But at the same time the phrase "real humans" is an oxymoron.
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MAGIC GIANT No disrespect but isn't this a bit of an oxymoron?
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Now, he said, tasty economy-class food is no longer an oxymoron.
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"Online boot camp is an oxymoron," said Mr. Craig of University Ventures.
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The idea of luxurious, environmentally friendly fashion is no longer an oxymoron.
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I've been looking for an oxymoron for years: affordable genuine-leather leggings.
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They could have it be quieter, which is an oxymoron, I admit.
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"You can't repeal it and replace it quickly - that's an oxymoron," Collinstold reporters.
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" He wrote: "What an oxymoron... a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality.
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It seems like one giant, confusing oxymoron, and that's probably what West wants.
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"What an oxymoron… a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality," he tweeted.
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Many millennials believed "honest politician" was not an oxymoron when applied to Sanders.
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It was an oxymoron if ever there was one: a viral theater moment.
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"Premium Chromebook" seemed like an oxymoron until the Pixelbook came out in 2017.
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An independent Syrian press was an oxymoron, a pipe dream, before the war.
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Instead, we get a photographic oxymoron: a diaristic account that is thoroughly impersonal.
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A Senate where the phrase "happy warrior" is an oxymoron will miss him.
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"My catchphrase these days is, 'mass media has become an oxymoron,'" she said.
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The Marching Cobras may sound like something scary, not to mention an oxymoron.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Medieval globalization may seem like an oxymoron.
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The very name given to the methodology — substantive due process — sounds like an oxymoron.
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"What an oxymoron … a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality," Dillard tweeted Aug.
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The name of the song is "Fire at Sea," which is an oxymoron, right?
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"What an oxymoron … a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality," Dillard tweeted Aug.
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Steve Shelton: Someone once mentioned to Tannon that the title was actually an oxymoron.
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It's not an oxymoron to be a change agent and familiar with the system.
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I'd call it predictably bizarre, but honestly that's a complete oxymoron in this case.
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These days, of course, international cooperation is perhaps just as much of an oxymoron.
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To many, if not most, Americans, the phrase "regulatory humility" sounds like an oxymoron.
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As any beer enthusiast will tell you, mass-produced craft beer is an oxymoron.
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"It's not an oxymoron to be a transgender and be a Christian," Kimberly said.
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Utility companies must produce non-corrosive water, which some experts argue is an oxymoron.
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CREMA, Italy — An open society in lockdown: It's almost an oxymoron, a mind game.
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CREMA, Italy — An open society in lockdown: It's almost an oxymoron, a mind game.
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Like the living dead, another oxymoron, spouse-friends, are all around us these days.
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As recently as 2014, the idea of "bipartisan criminal justice reform" was an oxymoron.
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But he may have the greater distinction of being another oxymoron: an elitist nihilist.
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The very idea of a competitive pond hockey tournament is somewhat of an oxymoron.
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Recognizing "clean diesel" for the oxymoron it is would be a good place to start.
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To some, being a "chill" person with anxiety might sound a bit like an oxymoron.
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We are living in the oxymoron of an individualized society — the capitalization of our time.
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The entire concept of state-sponsored cryptocurrencies is an oxymoron, especially under an authoritarian regime.
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One reason for caution is that history shows that "intelligence community" is sometimes an oxymoron.
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"That is an oxymoron, which clearly was the word that Rex Tillerson was searching for."
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Pensions have also played the most prominent role in vivifying corporate voting, long an oxymoron.
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, late 2019: The Museum of the Future (an oxymoron?) opens in Dubai.
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And the poor survivor — not an oxymoron here — will catch hell just for being alive.
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Kristen Soltis Anderson is a young Republican — and no, she doesn't consider that an oxymoron.
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Clean diesel became an oxymoron, or was that just another German car industry lie all along?
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It is an oxymoron that a NATO member like Turkey buys S-400 missiles from Russia.
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In effect, accurate forecasting, already something of an oxymoron, is largely a guessing game in 2017.
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I get a red vinho verde (yeah, I know: an oxymoron) and an unusual Italian wine.
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Working after retirement may be an oxymoron, but it's a trend that continues to gain steam.
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Father James Martin: 'Christian white supremacist' is an oxymoron How many white supremacists consider themselves Christians?
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He was relentless, Badrtalei said, to the point that off-season almost sounded like an oxymoron.
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It sounds like an oxymoron: An oil and gas company committing to net-zero carbon emissions.
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"Corrections Department" is a quintessential oxymoron when it comes to non-violent drug dealers or offenders.
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The usual definition is that "it's the effect of an inert pill," but that's an oxymoron.
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"Ivy League and sports, to me that's an oxymoron," said Christopher Hunt, a college admissions consultant.
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A car with a four-digit horsepower output but with little terror is sort of an oxymoron.
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An inclusive "national conservatism" in the United States, or perhaps any other Western country, is an oxymoron.
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Healthy dessert is, contrary to popular belief, not always an oxymoron, and these frozen bananas are proof.
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The term "cool wedding hairstyles" seems so incongruous, almost wrong, like an oxymoron or a double negative.
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The first friend to declare it an oxymoron also gave my tournament the perfect title: March Mindfulness.
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In a consummate oxymoron, the UNHRC consistently allows serious human rights violators to serve on the Council.
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Given the reputation SUVs have for being gas guzzlers, a hybrid SUV can seem like an oxymoron.
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Patient-centered healthcare is almost an oxymoron, in terms of how healthcare is currently managed and delivered.
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The beat is a bit fast and frenetic, almost like organized cacophony (which probably is an oxymoron).
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"Calling the current economy an expansion is an absolute oxymoron," said Juanita Duggan, NFIB president and CEO.
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THE SUBSTITUTION ORDERBy Martin Clark Have you heard the one about "a legal thriller" being an oxymoron?
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" Chinese officials use something of an oxymoron to describe what their new currency will offer: "controllable anonymity.
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The corporation is seen as irredeemably obsessed with profit, so that a virtuous corporation is an oxymoron.
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In other words, they were elevated into career political slots, an oxymoron if there ever was one.
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The phrase "cocktail safety" may sound like an oxymoron, or the punch line of a barroom joke.
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Some say the concept is illogical, with others going so far as to term it an oxymoron.
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It is a motorized oxymoron — an "entry-level" BMW, which is not as ridiculous as it might sound.
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Artificial Intelligence in Africa seems to be an oxymoron in this context, but Africa is the last frontier.
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To be both visibly Muslim and conventionally popular in a Western setting is practically to be an oxymoron.
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He argues that managed competition is an oxymoron — that market competition and social collaboration are fundamentally at odds.
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The idea of each state fashioning its own narrative is an oxymoron that contributes to our political dysfunction.
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But there is increasing reason to think that the virtuous corporation is not an oxymoron but a necessity.
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City Kitchen When you think about it, a "big, fat juicy pork chop" is kind of an oxymoron.
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Progressive capitalism is not an oxymoron; we can indeed channel the power of the market to serve society.
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Basically, it's volcanic ASMR — which sounds like an oxymoron since volcanoes can destroy homes, kill people, and cause chaos.
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And though it might seem like an oxymoron, a minimalist take on the chandelier earring is officially taking over.
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Its trailer comes just months after developer Oxymoron Games announced Project Hospital—its own take on the sickness simulator.
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"That's an oxymoron, Donald Trump and unifying the Republican Party," said one senator, who requested anonymity to speak frankly.
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He was nonetheless the "blue-collar billionaire," to quote the oxymoron that some of his surrogates took to using.
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Perhaps I'm wrong: A "North Korea expert" is an oxymoron, and traditional diplomacy in the past certainly hasn't succeeded.
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Florence and the Machine has built an enviable following at a time when mainstream rock is almost an oxymoron.
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The Andersons proved that a higher purpose with a solid bottom line does not have to be an oxymoron.
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Buy Now Modernist Bread, $625 "Modernist bread" might sound like an oxymoron, but baking is science, and science is technology.
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For much of the 20th century (and, of course, long before), ethics in medical research was something of an oxymoron.
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"He said she was starting an NRA equivalent in Russia," Sanford said, joking it sounded like an "oxymoron" for Russia.
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Schoolboy Q has released the long-awaited debut single from his upcoming album, the follow up to 2014's Oxymoron.
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"All along we're gonna feel some numbness / Oxymoron of our lives," Leslie Feist croons sweetly on the album's title track.
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While good, inexpensive pinot noir may seem like an oxymoron, Oregon manages to get it done in the Willamette Valley.
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Lockwood's father, Greg, is also Father Greg, a Catholic priest with a large family, which makes him a walking oxymoron.
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Ford Motor's latest offering seems like an oxymoron twice over: It's a sport utility vehicle that's electric … that's a Mustang.
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Medicines360 is a nonprofit pharmaceutical company — which can sound like an oxymoron in an era of sky-high drug prices.
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LG: Seems like an oxymoron to me, because if they're jerks, they're not super brilliant, but that's just my opinion.
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"I am an oxymoron: A professional athlete and a virgin, and that was a selling point for them," he tells Refinery29.
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"That's really an oxymoron – the bags degraded all right, but simply into smaller pieces of plastic," Bunchuck wrote in an email.
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Now before I go into what exactly this oxymoron-esque snacking situation entails, let's chat a little about popcorn in general.
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Noise fills in, in our minds, for the absence of noise, giving every moment of our lives a backdrop of oxymoron.
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Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase "woman war correspondent" would never again be an oxymoron.
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O.K., mostly Israel, perhaps because it has been the most public about its status as a political oxymoron, a Jewish democracy.
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His voice was gravelly but soft, a faded echo of rural Virginia: perfect for the barbed lash or the awful oxymoron.
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The pillow is a little bit like an oxymoron — it's fluffy as a cloud, but it doesn't dissipate into mist under pressure.
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The federal government could proudly raise the bar for all of its schools and reduce failing schools in America to an oxymoron.
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" Davis wrote in a tweet that putting the words "Trump" and "Giuliani" next to the word "truth" is equivalent to an "oxymoron.
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In the past, the celebrity House member was pretty much an oxymoron, unless you considered Tip O'Neill or Newt Gingrich a celebrity.
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With breaking news, tangential gossip, video pivots, and social media shares driving traffic metrics, serious music criticism has almost become an oxymoron.
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Schoolboy Q took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that Blank Face, his followup to 2014's Oxymoron, will be released July 8.
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Is campaign finance reform an oxymoron as long as rich corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals can still make unlimited "dark money" contributions?
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Every now and then I overthink what I put out there, but I try really hard not to — which sounds like an oxymoron.
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Does such a state even exist, or is the idea that something can embody both the hitherto unseen and the standard an oxymoron?
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The three new colors are meant to be sparkly matte, which seems like an oxymoron, but Kylie has somehow willed it into existence.
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It's a lot more natural and a lot more magical, which is kind of an oxymoron, but one that makes sense to me.
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To begin, the term "affordable genuine-leather leggings" is a bit of an oxymoron: Real leather leggings typically go for $900 and up.
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And Privacy International sums up the Off-Facebook Activity tool with an apt oxymoron — describing it as "a new window to the opacity".
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Many in the media, including Ladies' Home Journal and Gay Talese on assignment for The New Yorker, questioned whether it was an oxymoron.
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Thus even forty years ago, the very phrase "American monument," if not exactly an oxymoron, carried a sense of the provisional, the negotiable.
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The way we get news and information through the prism of algorithms in places like Facebook, Twitter, and Google is an oxymoron of sorts.
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After Brexit, Trump, Sanders and the misforecast British and Canadian general elections, it should be clear that the term political science is an oxymoron.
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Tony The Witchy Tiger Luxury tie-dye feels like an oxymoron, but velvet might just be the greatest canvas tie dye has ever seen.
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That oxymoron is what makes this wave of terrorism the most dangerous in history, and so different from even the days of al Qaeda.
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"Conceptually, it's an oxymoron and in terms of the data, we don't get any of the same results [as the original study]," he says.
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He is like a walking oxymoron (which is perhaps not surprising, given that reality TV is the medium in which he has most flourished).
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This led to headlines touting a "jobless recovery" (truly an oxymoron) in which large corporations and banks achieved record earnings despite stagnant wage growth.
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An intellectually engaging exhibition of fabulous frocks may sound like an oxymoron but this extravagantly beautiful show offers a lot to think about, too.
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Since the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism created the idea of a single African race, the term "black princess" has been an oxymoron.
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Netflix and Starbucks are niche products with mass appeal It's something of an oxymoron, but Netflix and Starbucks are niche products with mass appeal.
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The concept of targeted reach getting more efficient but still reaching a lot of people used to be an oxymoron, but it's not today.
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In contrast, Coursera and Udacity online skills-based offerings are self-paced and might lead one to believe that an "online bootcamp" is an oxymoron.
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A "healthy narcissist" might sound like an oxymoron, but some narcissists claim to be self-centered for the sake of the greater good, Behary says.
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Both Republicans and Democrats claim they will give the American people better healthcare and lower costs, which everyone knows is of course is an oxymoron.
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A Lamborghini SUV seemed an absurdity, yet the Italian automaker, renowned for never compromising on intestine-twisting performance, succeeded in making the apparent oxymoron work.
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But there also is a type of American hairless terrier — and this would seem to be an oxymoron — known as the coated American hairless terrier.
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" A GOP strategist close to the administration told the Post on condition of anonymity that the White House's process for vetting appointees is "an oxymoron.
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Even though"long-wear lip gloss" sounds a bit like an oxymoron, adult film stars promise there are formulas out there that really, truly stay put.
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"It will be a low-emission cauldron as it would be an oxymoron to talk about sustainability and then burn massive amounts of gas," Balich said.
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"What an oxymoron … a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality," tweeted Dillard, 28, in response to a promotional tweet from the network about Jennings' series.
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For the most part, though, Radiohead and "mainstream" feels like an oxymoron—Radiohead specializes in otherness, a band whose music trades in isolation and existential vertigo.
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Dr. Clair Nixon is known throughout Texas A&M as an incredibly interesting accounting professor (which would seem like an oxymoron if there ever was one).
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"The vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron," Thiel wrote.
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The Prez reportedly got the nom from an anonymous American for his "ideology of peace by force" -- which sounds like an oxymoron -- but Nobel peeps were suspicious.
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Its handmaiden is a cult of "historical memory", which is at best an oxymoron (memory is subjective and personal) and at worst a pretext for rewriting history.
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In English, the political status of Puerto Rico was deemed a Commonwealth, but the literal translation should be "Associated Free State," an oxymoron in so many ways.
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Besides being an oxymoron, assertive modesty didn't stop Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s, or any other manipulators of hate and prejudice at any other time.
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Eating well on a backpacking trip is often an oxymoron — since the point is to travel light, bringing food that's fast and easy to prepare is preferred.
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"And I said well actually that's an oxymoron because sovereign is to be king of your domain and citizen means you're part of group politics," Steward said.
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The process of creating cashmere is so inherently detrimental, requiring lots of resources and incurring lots of environmental degradation, that sustainable cashmere may be considered an oxymoron.
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Most environmentalists would call this an oxymoron, but the two could go hand-in-glove by getting the incentives right in both the private and public sectors.
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"Facebook privacy is an oxymoron and the gift that keeps on giving," Sam Curry, chief security officer at security firm Cyberreason, told VICE News in an email.
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And unless and until the common good has no Jewish exemption clause, the U.N. "Human Rights" Council is an oxymoron that does not deserve our respect or support.
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"Halo Top is the first-ever ice cream, first and foremost, that's actually good for you and actually tastes good, so it's kind of an oxymoron," says Bouton.
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The show also features Muppet characters like Bert and Ernie, who have gift-giving issues to resolve, and Oscar the Grouch, for whom "Happy Holidays" is an oxymoron.
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To survive, this calls for an act of political selflessness (an oxymoron if ever there was one) by one or more of the moderates in the coming weeks.
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Thing is, the phrase "healthy ice cream" is an oxymoron, as New York University professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health Marion Nestle put it to Fortune.
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Oxymoron Games, the studio behind it, is based in Prague, and is made of a group of former AAA-game makers who started up the indie outfit last year.
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Yet incels see the idea of a female "involuntarily celibate" as an oxymoron; they believe that unless a woman is "severely deformed," she can have sex whenever she wants.
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It's a product that just by its very description sounded like an oxymoron to me: an analog mechanical keyboard, using the full range of input allowed by optical switches.
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It sounds like an oxymoron, but that's exactly what Dickies, the leader in utilitarian gear founded in Texas in 1922, will be manufacturing under a new line, Dickies Construct.
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It may sound like an oxymoron given that Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Can we do business with Kim Jong Un?
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"What an oxymoron … a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality," he tweeted in August in response to a promotional tweet from the network about Jennings' series, I Am Jazz.
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Another would be to take a nibble of humble pie and recall that there is a reason "political science" sounds like an oxymoron: there are no iron laws in politics.
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Even the term "exercise pill" is an oxymoron, along the lines of "jumbo shrimp"; the idea that swallowing a pill can harmlessly "mimic" a vigorous half-hour swim defies logic.
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If we all do our part, we can help to sustain one of the great intellectual movements humanity has ever created, and end the oxymoron of open source sustainability forever.
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Besides our stifling experiences in evangelical schools, Tolentino and I share an appreciation for the musical markers of "Houston culture," a term that many New Yorkers might consider an oxymoron.
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It's an "absolute oxymoron," if you're exercising to lose weight and consuming alcohol afterwards, Dr. Bob Girandola, an associate professor at the University of Southern California's Human Biology Department, tells MUNCHIES.
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Feel the burn with these dragon egg candles It's a bit of an oxymoron of a gift, but no one can deny the class of some hand-crafted dragon egg candles.
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Is it, as Brees continued, "an oxymoron" that Kaepernick is sitting down because it is the anthem, and the flag, that give him the right to speak in the first place?
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"Public agencies, especially land-owning agencies, are something of an oxymoron: they do not always consider the public need for sustainable and responsible development versus the need for monetisation," he said.
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His woozily contoured portraits of random people—friends, a hotel page, a bride, a pastry cook—force an oxymoron: empathetic caricature, seeming at once to mock and to cherish hapless humanity.
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Bartolo Colon is a marvelous old Yoda, but an odd oxymoron of a pitch, the off-speed fastball, seemed unlikely to fool the Cubs' lineup of savvy and savage young hitters.
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The free-market welfare state may seem like an oxymoron — especially from the perspective of today's conservative ideologues — but it's in fact the best idea for a fractious, cornered Republican Party.
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The Trump administration has even gutted the popular Endangered Species Act, which was passed with strong bipartisan support at a time in history when the word "bipartisan" was not an oxymoron.
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It comes as a bit of a shock then to learn how close Beneš and Oxymoron wound up getting to the actual relationship between real-world hospitals and insurance companies where.
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There also is the oxymoron of fixing issues at the core of an organization, namely lack of innovation, by outsourcing it to a tiny outpost on the other side of the world.
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You can learn an awful lot about trends and the way they percolate outward from the professional to the armchair athlete (is that an oxymoron?) when watching approximately 50,000 people run by.
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Still, for much of the show what he presented were sophisticated sports clothes in complex fabrications that, while admirably refined, only served to underscore the reality that couture sportswear is an oxymoron.
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Open Book "Little Boxes," a new collection of essays in which writers appraise the TV shows that influenced them, is for people old enough to remember when "prestige TV" was an oxymoron.
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In her attempt to square the oxymoron of being a benevolent prosecutor who is also Tough On Crime, Mosby managed to alienate and disappoint advocates of each of those very different approaches.
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Current status: Available now Asus' ROG Mothership was yet another entry in last year's burgeoning not-really-a-laptop market — otherwise known as a portable gaming desktop, if you'll excuse that oxymoron.
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The New Kids At The MorgueUndertaking L.A. is an oxymoron; it's a brand-new type of funeral home that seeks to bring us back a few hundred years, before the commercialization of death.
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What happens in his work is an embrace encouraged by a practice wherein opposing forces unify each other, giving life to a visual "oxymoron" that is aesthetically possible, even if ordinarily not acceptable.
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And if we're digging deep into the intent behind shopping for lingerie in the first place, dropping over $300 on a lacy number we're planning on getting "messy" in feels like an oxymoron.
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It may sound like an oxymoron, but it's a powerful draw for hospitals and other health care providers scrambling to adjust to sweeping changes in how they're paid for the care they provide.
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So I was in the market for new friends, but figured I would not be able to get a real friend, just maybe some tolerable Karens (oxymoron, I know) to pass the time.
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Now that Trump has learned the hard way that the phrase "this is the way Washington works" is an oxymoron, perhaps it can go forward with more confidence than ever in its own independence.
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"The vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron," Thiel wrote.
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At Trademark's fall/winter 2016 New York Fashion Week presentation, designers Louisa and Pookie Burch showed a collection that was colorful, familiar-yet-surprising (Yes, that's an oxymoron, but trust us.), and completely wearable.
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In an apparent hazing incident gone wrong (is that an oxymoron?), brothers of the Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity—an unofficially recognized group—smeared peanut butter on the face of 19-year-old Andrew Seely.
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" It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: "A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in 'cruel kindness' or 'to make haste slowly.
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Unexpected breakups (a bit of an oxymoron, as one party almost always Does Not Expect) are synonymous with chaos, turmoil erratic behavior, bad decisions; extreme hairstyle changes and other forms of rapid, anguish-induced reinvention.
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"North Korea expert" is an oxymoron, but from someone who has been covering the country since the 1980s, here's my take on why we should be deeply skeptical — and yet relieved, even a bit hopeful.
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Last summer, he called 17-year-old transgender activist Jazz Jennings' reality show I Am Jazz (which is also on TLC) "an oxymoron" for being a "reality show which follows a non-reality" in August.
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Press freedom is an oxymoron in Azerbaijan; not only is the country the worst-ranked European nation in Reporters Without Borders' recent tally, but Azerbaijan ranked worse than countries like Somalia and Tajikistan as well.
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Standing at a lectern flanked by plush burgundy drapes with "RP" embossed in gold on them in the Revolutionary Palace — which sounds like an oxymoron — Castro bridled when Andrea Mitchell asked him about human rights.
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Do I feel good squeezing my leg flesh into the skinny maternity (hi, oxymoron) jeans I ordered online in my "true size" back around week 26, the ones that were promised to "grow" with me?
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That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.
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That's not great if you're a privacy-minded smart speaker owner (this could be an oxymoron), especially since the companies that make these devices hire contractors and employees to listen to small snippets of recordings.
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I am a minimalist, so I don't like owning many things and being attached to them, but then the oxymoron is that if you don't own much, you get attached to what little you do have.
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Theresa has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Omnium Gatherum, but insiders are jealous of the work Theresa's done on Broadway, and in TV. She is simultaneously a rich playwright—a true oxymoron—and underrated.
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In the article, Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron, Richard Thaler, father of behavioral economics, and his colleague Cass Sunstein explore the science underlying opting in, arguing persuasively that people are biased toward the status quo.
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Given the recent success of that streetwear brand, possibly the first underground niche-cool line to become part of the billion dollar club (and yes, that may be an oxymoron), it's a potent connection to draw.
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Dillard recently retweeted a promotional tweet from the network about the series "I Am Jazz," which documents the life of transgender teen Jazz Jennings "What an oxymoron... a "reality" show which follows a non-reality," Dillard tweeted.
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Similarly, the designers behind rag&bone told The New York Times that the refusal to dress the First Lady is somewhat of an oxymoron: "It would be hypocritical to say no to dressing a Trump," he said.
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With shade names like: Dominance, Liberation, Confession, and Confidence — these teasers of the Tribe Rock collection have us excited to get our hands, and lips, on these designer, affordable lip colors (now there's a oxymoron for you).
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On its face, it seems like an oxymoron that only an economist could love: The job market has actually exceeded the level of "full employment," which sounds like there are more people working than there are jobs.
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Though Dr. Simons's career took in myriad fossils, including whales' feet (in the distant past in which his professional life was lived, the footed whale was no oxymoron), he was concerned in particular with the earliest primates.
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This oxymoron speaks to the government's own efforts to obfuscate the reality of these detention centers with euphemistic names like "Family Center" and their "Hospitality Guidelines," as if trying to invoke a sense of travel and rest.
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The seeming oxymoron of extravagant ease has long been, for example, a basic precept of Dries Van Noten, for whom dressing for comfort is an inalienable right, and the tension between apparent opposites is what keeps things interesting.
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Eric Gyamfi's Just Like Us and Sabelo Mlangeni's Country Girls capture a "normalized" queer existence (an oxymoron of sorts to many homoantagonists) that creates space for community, intimacy, and pleasure even within often antagonistic and sometimes violent social conditions.
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Kanye West, "THat Part" It's still not clear when Schoolboy Q is going to follow up 2014's solid Oxymoron with a new album, but the release of "THat Part" suggests it could be arriving sooner rather than later.
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Two days ago, ScHoolboy Q — an LA-based rapper who is good friends with Kendrick Lamar and released one of the most well-received rap albums of 53, Oxymoron — debuted a fake cover for his upcoming album Blank Face.
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Indeed "clean coal" is a misleading description (the coal doesn't actually get cleaner), an oxymoron — all it signifies is that polluting emissions caused by burning the coal are being managed in a way that makes them somewhat less harmful.
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"It sounds like an oxymoron, but it appears that men who have higher relationship motivation tend to take less risk when it comes to protecting themselves and partners from unintended pregnancies and STIs," sex therapist Renée D. Burwell said.
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In the picture Tiffith shared, it was suggested that the label has been working on the long-awaited debut album from Isaiah Rashad, the follow up to ScHoolboy Q's Oxymoron, and new albums from Jay Rock, SZA and Ab-Soul.
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For a start, it takes place at a convention center named for Jacob Javits, a New York politician who served in Congress for 30 years as a liberal-leaning Republican in an era when that descriptor was not an oxymoron.
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Her rulings against Apple, Facebook, Google and Qualcomm have positioned the European Union, rather than Washington, as the world's de facto Big Tech regulator — and established Ms. Vestager as an international regulatory celebrity, if such a thing is not an oxymoron.
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While it's a bit of an oxymoron to talk about activists and slackers as the same people, it's true that many people only make shallow contributions to a political cause—changing their profile pictures, sharing a post, or using a trending hashtag.
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I'm not exactly sure if mobile meditation is an oxymoron, or counterproductive—after all, phone apps that let you meditate exist because you're too busy to sit down at a computer, or need to be able to do the class on-the-go.
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Yet, somehow, I think that's the key to optimizing this oxymoron of a gadget: The Palm has great potential to improve the tech balance in your life (certainly more than a smartwatch, all of which have proven to be inadequate app platforms).
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It's a reminder that not everyone who self-identifies as "feminist" supports legal abortion — and that many abortion rights supporters see the term "pro-life feminist" as an oxymoron, since outlawing abortion tends to seriously hurt women's health and limit their autonomy.
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He bears a striking physical resemblance to Cunanan, but he hasn't been directed in a way that suggests the profoundly ambiguous core — admittedly, an oxymoron — of this man who could be both a smooth, adept dissembler and, as a killer, such a blundering, bloody improviser.
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Though there was a lot to take in at a J.W. Anderson show, it was the selection of party-ready tracksuits (it sounds like an oxymoron, we know) that caught our attention — and not because the idea seems so weird, but because it actually worked.
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Small opera might sound like an oxymoron to people whose idea of the art form is rooted in stagings of Wagner's "Ring" cycle or Verdi's "Aida" as Cecil B. DeMille-worthy spectacles with huge orchestras, big choruses, legions of spear carriers and even large animals.
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On-demand health insurance seems like an oxymoron, but digital health insurance firm Bind is betting that by structuring health plans so that people can add coverage and pay for it when they need it, companies and employees can save money in the long run.
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It's a sort of parsed back, baroque-pop (which sounds like an oxymoron really) and then at two minutes 55 the song turns on its head and CuckooLander comes off like a soulful 60s singer singing her heart out in some smoky speakeasy basement.
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"Anonymized" location datasets admittedly tend to be something of an oxymoron, but authoritarians may still be technically stymied by the difficulty of deanonymization; and if individual privacy can be preserved even more securely than that via some elegant encryption scheme, so much the better.
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His band was called Blink-2182, and he had formed it with his friend Mark Hoppus, who shared his obsession with punk—and, in particular, with pop-punk, a seeming oxymoron that was in fact a subgenre, known for simple chord progressions and memorable tunes.
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The verses mostly cling to one note over a nervous drum-machine pulse, but eventually a pealing chorus arrives, though it's still more ambivalent than its melody suggests: "All along we're gonna feel some numbness/Oxymoron of our lives," a multiplied Feist sings in harmony.
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But in the end it was what wasn't scheduled or anticipated that took the market up on Wednesday and then plummeting on Thursday; paradoxically the unexpected that, no surprise to us, always surprises markets: an OPEC agreement (the ultimate oxymoron) and concerns about Deutsche Bank's balance sheet.
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Pendleton reframed the Jamestown arrival of those first African Virginians, putting it in a diasporic context that discussed African civilizations (an oxymoron, according to many white authors), the African presence in Mexico, slavery in Muslim countries, and the systematic abuse of indigenous peoples in the colonies.
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But Cruz's torrent of a performance as Javier Bardem's unstable and insatiable ex-wife (they are, of course, married in real life) brings with it an equally riotous style, largely consisting of too much eye makeup, Bardot hair, nighties as dresses, and sexed-up cheesecloth (is that an oxymoron?).
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If it can get enough outsiders to buy into its oversight board — allowing it to pass off the oxymoron of "global governance", via whatever self-styled structure it allows to emerge from these self-regulatory seeds — the company's hope must be that the device also works as a bolster against political pressure.
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As far as what I was thinking — I was in my backyard, so I was definitely thinking 'I hope none of my neighbors can see me,' but I was also trying to act like I was taking a candid shot of myself (even though that's virtually impossible since I was clearly taking the picture.) I think 'candid selfie' is my new favorite oxymoron.
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W: Well, there's a lot of mis-discussions on-, some people think cyber security is an oxymoron, that you can't truly have that, especially on the version of the internet that we have today, and then some people feel that-, I met a company yesterday that have some pretty cool solutions towards that, and things that my company is looking at.
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" Lindsey, who is vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center—a think tank that supports liberaltarian policies—describes the ideology as one animated by "the idea of a free-market welfare state, which sounds like an oxymoron to most people but sounds to us like what good 21st-century governance looks like, combining significant redistribution and social spending with go-go competitive markets.
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But in his interview with Hot 97 this morning, the rapper talked about how close he came to calling it quits after the release of his last record, 2014's Oxymoron: I almost quit for this album… I was gone for a year and a half and then before that I was gone for a year, and then before that I was gone for six months.
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Mr. Lynn's terrain here is the loving but also fractious rapport over time between the French leader Charles de Gaulle (a sonorous Laurence Fox) and the father figure of sorts that he found in Philippe Pétain (a twinkly Tom Conti), the hero of the Battle of Verdun who went on to be convicted for treason after World War II — hence Mr. Lynn's oxymoron of a title.
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"The judge said it was an oxymoron for him to say that he would be tortured and his rights violated if he is sent back to Egypt, when he had a valid passport and was free to enter and leave Egypt as he pleased" before the hijacking, Marianna Tsangari, a Cypriot state lawyer involved in the case, said in a phone interview on Friday.
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Brett D. Schaefer: U.S. withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is the right decision Anne Bayefsky: Trump's wise to quit the UN Human Rights Council -- It's an oxymoron not worthy of our respect or support THE FALL OF GE: General Electric, one of the 30 original members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, will be removed from the leading index amid a prolonged stock slide and financial difficulties that have forced the one-time giant to cut costs ... Walgreens Boots Alliance will replace GE on the index as of the start of trading on Tuesday, June 26.
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