paradoxical

It’s a paradoxical quality of horror films that to be an outsider either qualifies you as a hero or the monster — the insiders are usually just food.

It might seem paradoxical, but returning to a gold standard would result in much less volatility in the global gold market.

In the end, the paradoxical title "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" may, in fact, be another way of saying, "I want to live."

The second documented the paradoxical state of affairs in which America’s poor live by the countercultural values taught to them by elites, while elites abide by traditional conceptions of work and marriage.

It’s the paradoxical sensation of cheering your beloved team as it pulls ahead of its rival, while growing increasingly worried that it might ultimately lose the match.