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

As with Michael’s doubleness, some care is taken to let us see her as conceivably the victim of a murder or an accident, as perfectly happy and less than perfectly happy, a true-crime Schrödinger’s cat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022

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

I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath