I'm this quote about personal essays from author barry lopez which words are an oxymoron? it is the rarest of leisure hard work mixed with hard pleasure to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self absorbed and equally and abundantly outward seeking shape of the personal essays a story comprised of found fact of analyzed emotion of fictive memory

B. hard pleasure

Explanation:

According to a different source, these are the options that come with the question:

A. hard work

B. hard pleasure

C. deep thought

D. outward-seeking

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two ideas that are normally opposed to each other are joined in order to achieve a particular effect. Often, these include an adjective and a noun that express contrasting ideas. In this example, "hard" and "pleasure" are combined in order to create an image that is contradictory.

the correct answer is d. sinking. - apex.