contradiction

A recent Boston Magazine story described the contradiction well: “It’s a place where lunch for two at a deli costs $75, yet residents working two or three jobs still can’t make ends meet.”

But here, a couple of day later, is an answer—or, rather, a series of answers, with many contradictions among them.

But we tend to justify or explain away our own contradictions.

What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

And in a seeming contradiction of the terms outlined, Netanyahu released a video address on Tuesday saying the Israeli military “will remain in most of the Gaza Strip.”