The wordoxymoron(plural:oxymoraoroxymorons) is derived from the Greek forpointedly foolish(oxys = SHARP, KEEN + moros = FOOLISH). For more examples of oxymorons, particularly of the more amusing variety, take a look at ourFunny Oxymoronspage. ...
Infra Red is described as 'an oxymoronic IPA' in that it is not a pale ale in any sense of the word but a highly hopped red ale. BEERHUNTER Dr Harvey concluded by saying that he could not find scientific evidence on medical databases to substantiate terms used in the ad like BioPromis...
When written as two words, never mind functions as averbin an almost oxymoronic nature. As you can assume, over time, the phrase became popular and was eventually shortened and adapted into our modern-day expression. In contrast to its more nuanced usage back in the 1700s,never mindis freq...
Boy, it’s been a while. An oxymoronic combination of being lazy and busy, I guess. Anyway, for this post I wanted to talk about design. It’s a topic that comes up a lot in my classes, especially ones that have a heavy design component such as Human-Computer Interaction, The Capst...
I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like “Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn’t a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself”. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic ...
"This term ‘disability’ coupled with ‘pride’, is sometimes seen as oxymoronic by able-bodied people and that alone makes me even prouder to call myself disabled and proud [..] If it were not for my Diabetes, I would not be the advocate I am today," says Dalyce "I would not ...
Under such banners as the ‘Green New Deal’, the ‘circular economy’, and the oxymoronic concept of ‘green growth’, MTI societies are striving to electrify everything and drive investment into so-called renewable green energy sources, particularly wind turbines, solar panels, and, most ...
E.g., for a long time it’s been claimed that humans can perform complex actions without consciousness; the clearest case of this is a phenomenon given the oxymoronic name “blindsight.” The canonical examples are patients with occipital lobe lesions. These patients can still perform tasks pro...
(theoxymoronic “humanitarian wars”in the Balkans or Libya), or even a pop culturearmada of ships(at 1:34) carrying enough proton torpedoes to detonate a galaxy. Truth is, our label –humanitarian– carries with it far more capacity to mask, mislead, and divert than we defend against. ...
If you believe the Holy Bible is truly the inspired and infallible Word of our God, then there is absolutely no other interpretation or spin that you can put on the above verses. God the Father has made it as clear as He possibly could with the way that He has worded all of the abov...