In supporting such an individual, these Evangelicals and Christian Nationalists (forgive me, but the latter term is an oxymoron for anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the Gospels, but I digress) are showing their hands. Their real agendas as the most cynically opportunistic of opportuni...
oxymorons. However, the Trump crowd takes all the religious crap and all the anti-intellectualism crap and bakes it into one cake. The libertarians are usually strictly the latter, and the main thing now is some new theme that american’s are somehow paying for the health care and/or ...
Louis Sewer District recently completed a Long-Term Control Plan (LTCP) to address combined sewer overflows (CSOs), negotiated the content of the plan, and received approval of the remedial measures defined in the LTCP. Rather than addressing CSO control in a relatively uniform manner, such ...
I like oxymorons, and I recognize that my term “routine amazement” is one. I think the history below does illustrate how today’s wonder and amazement become tomorrow’s “so what?” acceptance. As a person living in the U.S. starting in 1936, I have experienced amazement quite a num...
for many of my retired or partially retired peers as well as any others who are saving money for an uncertain future, my advice is simple. Protect your funds vs. future inflation That means owninggold, silver and precious metals (commodities and funds); no long term or intermediate term...
athe term itself is something of an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms: free 期限是有点逆喻,一个自相矛盾的说法: 自由[translate] a一年去旅行两次 A year travels two times[translate] a我也喜欢!但是最近没时间管他们! 私はまた好む! しかしそれらを最近経営する時間がなかった![translate] ...
smart, up-and-coming conservative commentator who was let-go fromThe Blaze– at least from what I can tell – primarily over her pro-choice views. To me – and many other conservatives – the term “pro-choice conservative” is about as oxymoronish as is the term: “reasonable liberal.”...
Origin: 1940s US military—SNAFUis an acronym for the oxymoron “Situation Normal, All Fucked Up,” which suggests the status quo chaos of wartime. In a sentence: Ted found himself in a major snafu: should he return the wallet he found and find its rightful owner or pay off his gambling...
This term, which is closer to slang than jargon, immediately strikes one as an oxymoron. There is no convincing evidence of autoGvHD despite many publications. Although we do not dispute that some autotransplant recipients and recipients of genetically identical twin transplants develop clinical and...
“Yes, of course, for you, even a star from the sky.” He had a finely developed, intelligent and subversive humour we couldn’t get enough of. As one reader wrote, in early 2014: “I found the term ‘Orthodox Communists’ amusing, a true oxymoron. Thank you all for translating Mr....