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

But the seeds of it, I think, were in that very doubleness which made it so powerful.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2022

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