Paradoxical.
Ethel. "It was a most wonderful performance, Aunt Tabitha! First, she was shot out of a cannon's mouth on to a trapeze fifteen yards above the orchestra, and then she swung herself up till she stood on a rope on one leg at least a hundred and twenty feet above our heads!" Aunt Tabitha. "Ah! I always think a woman lowers herself when she does that!"
FORM
First Masher. "Let's stop and look at Punch and Judy, old chappie! I've heard it's as good as a play."
Second Masher. "I dessay it is, my brave boy. But we ain't dressed, you know!"