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  • Perhaps what she meets in the cave is instead Nothingness, albeit some years before Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and the existentialists of the 1950s and 1960s articulate the dichotomy between, in Sartre's terms, Being and Nothingness.†  (source)
  • "Ah yes, Vogonity—sorry—of the poet's compassionate soul"—Arthur felt he was on the homestretch now—"which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other"—he was reaching a triumphant crescendo—"and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into ...into ...er ..." (which suddenly gave out on him).†  (source)
  • The shooter confronting Puller had blurred this dichotomy.†  (source)
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  • This was part of the dichotomy of the man—the rough-cut diamond.†  (source)
  • We're Dichotomous Lemur now," said Eric, stepping forward.†  (source)
  • The modern mind sometimes tends to balk at the thought of these dichotomies being inventions and says, "Well, the divisions were there for the Greeks to discover," and you have to say, "Where were they?†  (source)
  • Colin saw the Dumper/Dumpee dichotomy on a bell curve.†  (source)
  • This dichotomous couple, this sun and moon, this curandera and biologist, dreamer and realist, fire woman and water man, molded me; these two sides created a life-long conflict in my breast.†  (source)
  • "...represents a real dichotomy of art and salvage," she was saying in her Art History Major voice as she passed us on the stairs.†  (source)
  • The dichotomy was reminiscent of the religion Thomas vaguely remembered from his dreams.†  (source)
  • It was a real dichotomy, and I don't think a lot of people understood it.†  (source)
  • But right now I just want to use a dichotomy and explain it later.†  (source)
  • The dichotomy of color in the schools made administration so pleasant.†  (source)
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