dualistic

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In normal times and in those falling into the category of the new normal, these would be the dualistic terms by which we'd define this week.

From Salon

With its incantatory prose, “Freshwater” disrupted conventional ways of thinking, pushing readers outside the dualistic frameworks of body and spirit, male and female, psychotic and sane.

From Washington Post

This dualistic solution helped to pave the way for the Enlightenment and the technological and scientific advances of the coming centuries.

From The New Yorker

The dominance of his philosophy led to the hairsplitting dualistic logic that history notes in the millennium or so following him with the Dark Ages, feudalism, the Inquisition, etc.

From Washington Post

As you break down the situations you face, you can then align the skills you need, rather than taking a dualistic view between the desired “authoritative” presence and the perceived “submissive” reality.

From Seattle Times