Oxymoron!

This is one of the words in English language that has always fascinated me. There is so much said about "Opposites attract each other" - Right from the physics Magnetism class where we were taught "Opposite poles attract each other" to "People tend to select their partners who are quite their opposite". Be it technical or psychological, we have come across such statements in our life. Literature is also a place where you find opposites being attracted each other. Atleast, they sometimes come close to each other. Well, if I tell the meaning of the word Oxymoron, this might throw more light!

An oxymoron consists of two words that seem to contradict each other, or actually do contradict each other.

Let’s start this oxymoron with a contradicting word pair! “Legal Murder”. Uggh! Murder by itself, as we all know is definitely not legal, however the above 2 words are valid enough sometimes. We all know many cases where murder is legal (Lets thank our film industry for this!)

OK. If you are not so convinced with the above example, let’s go for more convincing and pleasant ones! “Awfully Nice”. Don’t we use this? He was awfully nice to the kids. There are so many interesting oxymorons...Here are few of them for a few categories.

How can such a wonderful aspect of the English language be left aside by Hollywood? Hmmm. Can you guess a few oxymoronish Hollywood titles??? Here they are
True Lies
Eyes Wide Shut

Perhaps there are more to the short list above! If you are a compute geek, here are a few oxymorons for you
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Click the 'Start' button to Shut Down the computer.

There are very famous quotes from many celebrated people that are oxymoronic.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. -- Samuel Goldwyn

Some ever time popular oxymorons:
Christ was born in year 4 B.C.
Change is the only Constant.

Before we end, here is the last and my favorite oxymoron. It’s the word "Oxymoron" itself. Yes, oxymoron itself is an oxymoron. Oxy means "sharp" or "wise". Moron (we use this more frequently!) means "fool" or "dull"!!!

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