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Happily, Diane Ladd and Laura Dern have broken ground with “Honey, Baby, Mine,” 14 recorded conversations and commentaries that make a brilliant end-run around the one-sidedness of a traditional memoir.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

In “The Abortion,” Barber points out, the library’s one-sidedness is a conceit that allows a separate narrative to unfold.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2019

That is where that early one-sidedness comes from and it lost Wales the game.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2016

Cusk’s insight in “Outline” is that, instead of trying to show two sides of a marriage, she might do the opposite: focus on the inevitable, treacherous one-sidedness of any single account.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond