dialectic

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She uses motifs to emphasize the dialectic of continuity and change, such as the portrait that acts as an unchanging backdrop to family meals even as other once-priceless objects are sold off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Laughton effectively embodies and personalizes the deeply felt dialectic between Alex and Jesse.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

I saw the possibility of making a film that was dialectic, where words and speaking were at the center of the film.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Zeno put it like this: “Rhetoric is an open palm; dialectic a closed fist.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith