OXYMORON DEFINED A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly or "jumbo shrimp" or "pretty ugly".”
Rebekah got a CD in the post entitled "Essential Bluegrass." Seemed to me one of the best examples of an Oxymoron I have ever heard. George Wills - generally a right-wing dolt - did however get it right when he pointed out that "domestic cat" was spot on as an oxymoron.
Sunday Mass Readings
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Sunday, June 28Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeRoman Ordinary calendar
St. Irenaeus 2nd book of Kings 4,8-11.14-16a. One day Elisha came to
Shunem, where...
Hunkered In
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The sky keeps changing colors, the wind roars all night and morning.
Sometime overnight it pulled the chicken-hut door off its hinges and
smashed it to k...
1 comment:
I totally agree on the essential bluegrass.
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