twain

Example Sentences

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Historically, each group did their own thing, “and never the twain should meet until, like, you had to,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

As with “Atlanta,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” presents Glover in a zero-overlap zone where acting is acting and music is music and never the twain shall meet.

From Los Angeles Times

As long as the twain never meet, we’re good — and by we, I mean humankind.

From New York Times

That's true of religion and genre franchise entertainment, and often the twain meets within the fandoms of heritage brands like "Star Wars," the Tolkien universe, and, yes, "Star Trek."

From Salon

“This is one of the evils of the ‘two cultures’ myth,” he says: Some students are channeled into scientific subjects, and others into humanities, and “never the twain shall meet.”

From Science Magazine