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How did you approach playing such a complicated, dualistic guy?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024
He first began overseeing the case in 2020, and over the months, a dualistic approach emerged: He was solicitous in the courtroom and scathing in written decisions.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
She's the fire in this group that contrasts with Nélisse's Shauna, whose quiet poker face is a precursor to Lynskey's dualistic portrayal.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2021
“If it is for your brother, it’s for you as well. That’s one place you dualistic types have it over the rest of us, eh?”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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