doubleness

Example Sentences

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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

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

It’s the matching bedspreads, the night tables, the lamps, the bureaus, the doubleness of everything in their room, that gives me this impression.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood