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dichotomy
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  • At base, it is a simple dichotomy: there are the coerlfolc, the teeming mass of common people who make up humanity's great bulk, and there is the hidden branch—the crypto-sapiens, if you will—who are called syndrigast, or "peculiar spirit" in the venerable language of my ancestors.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • But right now I just want to use a dichotomy and explain it later.†  (source)
  • But the dichotomy of love and disdain living side-by-side is what surprises me.†  (source)
  • It was a real dichotomy, and I don't think a lot of people understood it.†  (source)
  • The dichotomy of color in the schools made administration so pleasant.†  (source)
  • Colin saw the Dumper/Dumpee dichotomy on a bell curve.†  (source)
  • As you doubtless know, sir, one of the great problems of our culture has been the dichotomy between art and science.†  (source)
  • The dichotomy was reminiscent of the religion Thomas vaguely remembered from his dreams.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "...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)
  • In a stable society that functions well enough to hold in solution the contradictions between its classes, the cultural dichotomy becomes somewhat blurred.†  (source)
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