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The great Teacher was well aware of this in his choice of parables (Matt. 13; Luk. 11: 1—13 et al.), gnomes (Matt. 5), oxymorous statements (Matt. 5: 29, 30), every day incidents and events (Luk. 10, 25—37), common figures (Joh. 16: 20, 21), an easy , unscholastic style of speaking, rapid change of manner according to the changes in his thought and the requirements of the occasion. […] In this concrete sense we hold that the forms of truth have vital relation to application, as witness Christ’s use of parables, figures, gnomes, oxymorous address and the like.

1905, Tidskrift för Teologi och Kyrkliga Frågor, pages 133–134

I met a graceful English maid / Upon the Shwe Dagon / Her age was twenty-one, she said, / Her hair was sort of roan, / She had a soulful tearful air, / (It may have been a ruse,) / And on her feet she wore a pair / Of oxymorous shoes / […]

1911, J. M. S., The Pagoda and the Poet and Other Verses, British Burma Press, page 23

The terms are oxymorous, of course, and an oxymoron may be regarded as a condensed paradox; but it is just the paradoxical situation of man with which the poet is concerned.

1964, Lawrence Leo Stahlberger, The Symbolic System of Majakovskij, Mouton & Co., page 76

[…] usual biological allusions, like "lungs." "Golden tears" is oxymorous. Death is so much a part and parcel of life that every moment on earth is just a moment of waiting for death.

1966, Romanus Nnagbo Egudu, The Matter and Manner of Modern West African Poetry in English: A Study of Okigbo, Clark, Awoonor-Williams and Peters, Michigan State University, Department of English, page 257

One-year and two-year secretarial courses were offered, including an oxymorous liberal arts-secretarial "church secretarial certificate" for those who wished to combine somewhat contradictory disciplines.

1979 July, Eugene H. Sloan, “Hallowed Traditions Marked Tennessee College”, in Rutherford County Historical Society Publication No. 13, Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Rutherford County Historical Society, page 19