It is the novelist and artist running side by side in the legend and the drawing, but almost independently of each other, the wit and the poet in him trying to play each other's game, that provides the contradictoriness-the charm in his pictures.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
But of this I can tell: By that strange contradictoriness of the feminine-much the same all the world over-by that inherent, inborn desire of subjugation to the brutal and domineering in the male, Annadoah had given herself unreservedly to Olafaksoah.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
At the appointed time she went to Miss Aldclyffe's room, intending, with the contradictoriness common in people, to perform with pleasure, as a work of supererogation, what as a duty was simply intolerable.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy