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I had been raised in the tradition of so-called serious fiction, taking to heart Graham Greene’s dualistic breakdown of his own work into “novels” and “entertainments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
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
“Gotabaya has a dualistic personality — one side of that personality that the country has seen is this unilateralist, quite insensitive ex-military man,” Jayatilleka said.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 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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