There is an essential contradiction, he feels, in telling the story through the eyes of the living, when the essence of the Holocaust was industrialized slaughter.

But then, there was an essential contradiction in Mr. Seidner.

But all struggled with the essential contradiction of selling some music while loving a whole lot more.

In fact, there is not an essential contradiction between the victory proclamations of both sides.

Not to become ponderous (after all, it's only a movie), but the "South Park" phenomenon cannily zeroes in on some essential contradictions of American popular culture.

Born in 1907, Katharine Hepburn grew up with an essential contradiction.

And yet Laura's simple, but devastatingly effective attitude towards sexual attractiveness contained an essential contradiction.

In a sense the graffito incident symbolized the essential contradiction of a government trying to stimulate artistic creativity: just as it decrees freedom, it establishes rules.

The essential contradiction lay in the incompatibilities of 'command' policies and 'market'practice.

This essential contradiction has yet to be conclusively explained.