two solitudes
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of two solitudes
C20: from Two Solitudes , a novel by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan (1907–90)
Example Sentences
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Who better to offer up an olive branch that can ease the hitherto irreconcilable tensions between Canada’s two solitudes?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2020
They are not two solitudes but symbiotic social systems of governance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Trudeau dreamed of a Canada that was not a country of two solitudes but rather a nation of pluralism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the two solitudes, that of the mountain-top and that of this press where ribs could hardly lift, they sought and found the second.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
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