dialectic

There’s a kind of dialectic, dual track of braiding of hope and futility that runs all the way through the book.

Two-party politics contains a built-in dialectic about the interests of the people, in which each side will always accuse the other of acting against those interests.

I saw the possibility of making a film that was dialectic, where words and speaking were at the center of the film.

I’m reminded of a meme that likely began in the dialectic of Black tweeting: Black people will never be lonely; there will always be a white person all in their business.

We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.