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

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

As a man riddled with sympathy, riven with a nagging appreciation for all sides, he’s doomed to bewilderment, to irony, to a maddening sense of his own irreconcilable doubleness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 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