divided
adjective
separated; separate.
self-divided
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a word derived from
divided.
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
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
The distinctions between tormented, self-divided men like McNamara and a hyperoptimist like Rostow get blurred by the author's urge to define a single Viet Nam type.
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
