Example Sentences

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Through their eyes, this thoughtful and deeply humane novel exposes some of the contradictions and quiet duplicities of ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

He led us through the hallways of our insane asylums, the passions and duplicities our courtrooms, and into the blur of flying hair, free love, tie-dye and peace signs that marked our 1960s antiwar protests.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2018

Nguyen leaves us with a harrowing vision of the sprawling tragedies of wartime, and of the moral duplicities of which we are capable.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

You could guess le Carré believes that the betrayals and duplicities throughout his 23 books are an integral part of human nature and likely to remain so.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2016

He aimed his shafts at the fallacies and the duplicities which his countrymen ardently cherished, and he scorned the cheaper wit which contents itself with mocking at idols already discredited.

From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes