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

The band’s latest album carries the hard-earned knowledge of age and the strange doubleness of feeling both young and old, like “18-year-old software on 50-year-old hardware,” as Anderson puts it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

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

What is it like to live inside that doubleness, to practice a self-presentation that it also self-erasure?

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 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