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
The band’s latest album carries the hard-earned knowledge of age and the strange doubleness of feeling both young and old, like “18-year-old software on 50-year-old hardware,” as Anderson puts it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
But the seeds of it, I think, were in that very doubleness which made it so powerful.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2022
There’s a special heartbreak that arises from the doubleness of someone’s being here but not here.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 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
