His dialogue was abundant and suffused with paradox and irony.

"It's the great paradox of the pandemic," says Dr Simon Williams, a public health researcher at Swansea University.

The New York Times journalist Seth Mydans once described this tension as our region’s “central paradox.”

This paradox, which pleases abortion advocates as much as it frustrates their conservative counterparts, hinges mostly on pills.

After Trumpov had his say, Justice Merchan then took several moments to reflect on the "paradox" of the trial.