It takes the form of concise, often enigmatic, and usually paradoxical statements or aphorisms.

This is one of those paradoxical statements to which Macaulay likes to give a glittering plausibility.

These paradoxical statements explain everything you need to know about the collective male understanding of female sexuality.

"I come not," said Jesus, in one of those paradoxical statements hitherto so difficult to understand, "I come not to bring peace, but a sword."