Self-contradictory used in a sentence

Self-contradictory in a sentence as an adjective

It strikes me as a self-contradictory statement. If these minds are so great, why are they working on such mundane things?

The article is self-contradictory. It argues at length that working more than 40 hours a week reduces your output, then states: "And it hurts the country, too.

Your argument is somewhat self-contradictory. We know that lots of child porn exists.

Sorry, but this is completely self-contradictory. With your fat bank account, you can start a new, independent company.

Eventually you will build a very complex and self-contradictory map. You will find people who call themselves "feminists" on every side of each argument.

We all expected the verdict form to come back a self-contradictory mess, but in fact the jury had no problem sorting through it all. The verdicts were perfectly consistent and logical, as were the damage awards.

Such a wonderfully confusing and self-contradictory quote. I love it.

But people who think that commercial means nonfree will tend to think that the free commercial combination is self-contradictory, and dismiss the possibility. Let's be careful not to use the word commercial in that way.

Frequently with software you have to trade off requirements against each other; when you go to implement it you realize that what the customer actually wanted is self-contradictory. The essence of good product management is being able to make these trade-offs smartly.

Furthermore, there is something self-contradictory about a mob destroying people who destroy. A well-functioning system of justice can never be built on retribution and violence.

The constitution is a rather vague and self-contradictory description of structure. Different thing entirely.

The checklist is intentionally overcritical and self-contradictory. The idea here--in my reading at least--is to poke fun at people who bash new programming languages by reducing their criticisms to a thoughtless checklist.

By that, I am not saying that Christian doctrine is self-contradictory, I am only pointing out that several different Christian denominations have doctrines that contradict each other. According to some denominations, Hitchens would indeed be in ****, and according to others, he would be in heaven.

It sounds like they didn't get the results they wanted from the project, but tried to make the best of it by highlighting what they did get, which is a jumble of facts that are incoherent and self-contradictory. It's sort of interesting to read, because they did honest research, asked good questions and followed the data, and there is plenty of value in negative results.

That's possibly the "least illegal" option, and certainly the most politically palatable, as far as respecting congress's self-contradictory legal orders in this mess.

But I do think there are places where he glosses over some nuance and opts for the more hyperbolic presentation of an idea, in a way that can make certain bits seem self-contradictory. He also comes off a slightly dismissive of the "lean startup" approach, seemingly because he sees evolutionary processes as only capable of creating incremental advances, as opposed to significant new creations.

Or they deny that the argument is mathematical at all and retreat into increasingly self-contradictory pseudo-philosophical arguments.

If that's the case, one could argue that "even number, including the number zero" Then the hypothetical gas station attendant would argue that the instructions were self-contradictory and he was just doing his best to enforce them. It isn't just idiot-proofing, it's argument-proofing, making sure some self-important nit-picker doesn't disingenuously try to throw everything into chaos to prove that authority is stupid.