dualistic

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I had been raised in the tradition of so-called serious fiction, taking to heart Graham Greene’s dualistic breakdown of his own work into “novels” and “entertainments.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Such dynamic juxtapositions are essential to Al-Sindy’s dualistic approach.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

We tend to think about groups in negative terms, and when you're making evaluative judgments about things, they tend to be dualistic, black-and-white and unequivocal.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2022

Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“If it is for your brother, it’s for you as well. That’s one place you dualistic types have it over the rest of us, eh?”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman