dialectic

Example Sentences

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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

Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s a kind of dialectic, dual track of braiding of hope and futility that runs all the way through the book.

From Salon

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

From Salon

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