Awfully Good Oxymorons

[By Grace]

Since there are UNNAMED posters concerned with having good communication here, I thought I would make a contribution by creating a thread with some some famous ones, and see how things progress.

If you clearly misunderstand terms or people, just look in the dictionary. Do not bother me about it, OK?

1. "The Sound of Silence" (song by Paul Simon)
2. "sweet sorrow" (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
3. "melancholy merriment" (Don Juan by Lord Byron)
4. "scalding coolness" (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
5. True Lies (movie directed by James Cameron)
6. "lascivious grace" (Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare)
7. "darkness visible" (Paradise Lost by John Milton)
8. "absent presence" (Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney)
9. "beggarly riches" (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)
10. "good grief" Charlie Brown
11. idiot savant
12. cruel kindness
13. devout atheist
14. growing smaller
15. jumbo shrimp

 

[LovethroughDove]

Ha, I just realized the title has one. Cute.

 

[jasonc]

Since there are UNNAMED posters concerned with having good communication here, I thought I would make a contribution by creating a thread with some some famous ones, and see how things progress.

If you clearly misunderstand terms or people, just look in the dictionary. Do not bother me about it, OK?

1. "The Sound of Silence" (song by Paul Simon)
2. "sweet sorrow" (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
3. "melancholy merriment" (Don Juan by Lord Byron)
4. "scalding coolness" (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
5. True Lies (movie directed by James Cameron)
6. "lascivious grace" (Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare)
7. "darkness visible" (Paradise Lost by John Milton)
8. "absent presence" (Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney)
9. "beggarly riches" (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)
10. "good grief" Charlie Brown
11. idiot savant
12. cruel kindness
13. devout atheist
14. growing smaller
15. jumbo shrimp

Rapper biggie smalls
Military intellegence
The nuke missile named the peacemaker
Peace through tyrrany

 

[LovethroughDove]

controlled chaos

 

[jasonc]

controlled chaos

That's how a helicopter flies.

 

[By Grace]

That's how a helicopter flies.

How many flies does it take to fly a helicopter?

 

[By Grace]

Ha, I just realized the title has one. Cute.

Did you miss the one in the second paragraph of the OP?

 

[LovethroughDove]

Did you miss the one in the second paragraph of the OP?

Yes. "clearly misunderstand"

I'm a little slow sometimes.

 

[Wrg1405]

I've often been called a moron. Does that count?

 

[Hospes]

I've often been called a moron. Does that count?

Only if your first name is Oxy.

 

[jasonc]

How many flies does it take to fly a helicopter?

Polish flies or Jewish ones?