6 sentences with 'contradictions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contradictions and other words derived from it.
• « Abelard's view was that educated Christians should challenge their own beliefs and try to understand them; for him, since Christians were certain that the Bible would always be the ultimate source of truth, their own attempts to understand its apparent contradictions and ambiguities only strengthened the Christian religion as a whole. »
• « Why the coexistence? It seems clear that the Egyptians did not see contradictions between the two ways of representing styles, but rather a possible juxtaposition to express different realities and situations. »
• « After the Revolutionary War, the ideology that "all men are created equal" did not conform to reality, as the revolutionary generation could not resolve the contradictions of freedom and slavery in the new United States. »
• « The picture of George Washington painted by Trumbull in 1780 hints at some of these contradictions. What attitude do you think Trumbull was trying to convey? Why did Trumbull include Washington's slave, Billy Lee, and what does Lee represent in this painting? »
• « The contradictions illustrate the difference between the letter and the spirit of the laws abolishing slavery in Massachusetts. »