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tikusha
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Please help me to use the following oxymorons in sentences to illustrate their meaning:
a cruel kindness and fiercely peacefull, a human robot.
thank you very much!!!!!!!
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ms-mcgregor Teacher
High School - 12th GradeeNotes Editor
Posted by ms-mcgregor on Sunday November 16, 2008 at 9:30 AMBest answer as selected by question asker.
In the short story, "The Necklace", Madame Forriester's loan of the necklace proved to be a cruel kindness because she never told Madame Loisel it was fake. When Madame Loisel lost the necklace, she assumed it was real and put herself in debt to pay for a "fake" piece of jewelry.
2. Henry David Thoreau was a fiercely peaceful man, going to jail rather than have his taxes pay for a war for which he did not agree.
3. Bartelby was supposed to be a human robot, cranking out copies of perfect manuscripts day in and day out.
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cburr Teacher
Middle SchooleNotes Editor
Posted by cburr on Sunday November 16, 2008 at 9:38 AMI think "tough love" is the basic idea of cruel kindness -- making someone do something really hard which is for their own good. So, for example, you could say:
The drill sergeant forced them to run every day until they dropped, so they could build the stamina they would need in combat.
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Fiercely peaceful brings to mind Gandhi and Martin Luther King, who were fiercely committed to non-violent protest. An example sentence might be:
The protesters were fiercely peaceful, holding their ground despite being sprayed with water hoses and showered with tear gas.
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A human robot would be a real person whose behavior is robotic. For example:
In the early days of assembly lines, human robots did exactly the same small task over and over again for hours on end.
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