dualism

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As president, Carter tried to nudge American foreign policy away from its reflexive Cold War dualism toward an emphasis on human rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

Once we get beyond the dualism that The Captain is mired in, we can start experiencing real empathy and real humanity.

From Salon • May 27, 2024

A mystical indigenous religion that venerated nature, Daoism borrowed from various ideological systems, such as the dualism of yin-yang with its emphasis on the complementary poles of light and dark cosmological forces.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In the Basquiat/Electrician dualism, we’re given to believe that true talent will be rewarded, while those who change light bulbs for a living just aren’t that good.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023

Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor