dialectic

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She uses motifs to emphasize the dialectic of continuity and change, such as the portrait that acts as an unchanging backdrop to family meals even as other once-priceless objects are sold off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

There’s a kind of dialectic, dual track of braiding of hope and futility that runs all the way through the book.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

“This year’s recipients reflect the inevitable dialectic between individual creativity and community in the life of the arts.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

“That dialectic, that tension, that attraction, that romance that brought the two of them together,” Haynes said, “therein lies the mystery of this music.”

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2023

His implacable marshaling of facts and his logic had something of a new dialectic, diabolic in its force.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey