doubleness

Example Sentences

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That last sentence is typical of the book’s attempt to hold on to the statesman’s and city’s doubleness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Ms. Goldberg exposed the "problem of doubleness" that many Jews of Ashkenzai descent face: this tension between the economic privileges of whiteness and the social marginalization of being Jewish.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2022

Hall is mindful of this doubleness, which he traces back to his very early adolescence in Raleigh, N.C.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

As a man riddled with sympathy, riven with a nagging appreciation for all sides, he’s doomed to bewilderment, to irony, to a maddening sense of his own irreconcilable doubleness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2021

One thing they were astonished by was the doubleness of her hands: by the fact that she could both hold the book and turn the pages at the same time.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman