Example Sentences

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Of course, in some sense, we all know what it’s like to feel self-divided, or alienated from the world, which is what makes “Side Show” emotionally stirring.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2014

Yet, cinematically speaking, the 1940s and early 1950s produced some of our most neurotic, haunted and self-divided protagonists.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2013

As machine-gun bursts of talk reduce argument after argument to rubble in Man and Superman, one becomes more and more aware of the self-divided ambiguity of Shaw's nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

I knew all about these fictions about the fictions of the self-divided, having decoded them as cleverly as the next clever boy some four decades earlier in college.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stamper's strength is as the strength of one, and naturally none of the self-divided souls around him can tolerate so much indivisible virtue.

From Time Magazine Archive