1.   The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.

2.   The examples by Duchamp and Malevich provide also an indication of a central paradox within modernism.

3.   These stories illustrate the central paradox of town-country relations.

4.   That may seem unkind, but Yahoo has put its finger on the central paradox of on-line begging.

5.   Yet a central paradox of China today is that such strict political limitations coincide with a tremendous expansion of personal freedom in recent years.