How to Use dialectic in a Sentence

dialectic

noun

• The two scores that Lewis presented at the Armory embodied a dialectic of complexity and play.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The students would soon be caught up in the thrust and parry of dialectic.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• The first test of this new dialectic wasn’t long in coming.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
• How strange to see this very dialectic embraced by the far right.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017
• This contrast, or dialectic, is the focus of one section of the show.
  — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2020
• Yet in our own country, and our own time, that simple dialectic doesn’t sound so far off.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• And now, with Lemonade as the thesis and 4:44 the antithesis, the Hegelian hip-hop dialectic is complete.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• But the two artists’ relationships to the good girl-bad girl dialectic are not so different.
  — Diane Pecknold, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2017
• The policing took place through Greenberg’s insistence on his own eye as the only arbiter of the dialectic.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• And in a way, the entire dialectic unfairly reduces the tournament, their teams and both men.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 June 2018
• The screenplay explores—or in any case devotes some talk to—the dialectic of altruism and selfishness.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• This was always the dialectic of boxing—even the most ardent racists were trying, in their way, to deal with the fact that, under the fair-fight Queensberry Rules, a Black man could beat the living hell out of a white man.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2020
• The con man's Ron job provokes a final attorney dialectic.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• Theirs is a dazzling dialectic — a sort of Talmudic argument as snarled by junkyard dogs.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
• Schools exist to stifle freedom, and also to inculcate it, a dialectic that is the essence of true education.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Elements of the culture drove him toward those actions, yet as is always the case in the dialectic of character and circumstance, Lincoln transformed the times.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Messing with that dialectic is the peak of technological hubris.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2021
• Some UX proponents have realized this trap and reframed their design practice as a dialectic between the gifted and the rabble.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
• Women Talking is set up to be a debate rather than a dialectic: no one among the assembled is saying these assaults didn’t happen, just arguing over what the response should be.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• The dialectic has failed to produce a reliable consensus.
  — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• This Founding dialectic between the popular children of light and the elite children of darkness was built into the rhetoric of Jeffersonian democracy from the start.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
• This leads to a rural dialectic, where rural professionals hold the seemingly opposing views that rural work is, and is not, of high quality.
  — Timothy Baker, Quartz at Work, 27 Nov. 2019
• Irrelevant, predictable, just a footnote to the dialectic.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• The dialectic of regret is key to Grade’s creative brilliance as well as his appeal to Orthodox readers, unusual for a secular writer.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Godwin also discussed Hegel’s dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, with which a case can be made that the United States is currently grappling.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• In our deeply bifurcated world, Forché’s best writing engages in a kind of dialectic, one in which the truth of experience burns as brightly as the author’s intuition and imagination.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• The Woody Allen figure in a Woody Allen movie is almost always in transit from one woman to another, impelled by a dialectic of enchantment, disappointment and reawakened desire.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• And in this drama of opposing forces, through this brutal dialectic, aspects of each woman’s anatomy are grotesquely eroticized by her adversary: buttocks for the black woman, breasts for her white counterpart.
  — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• Either way, there’s some intellectual common ground, both in facts and methodologies, that leads to the hypothesis-thesis-synthesis dialectic of Socrates or Hegel.
  — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 28 May 2018
• As Frias continues to parallelize his narrative between America and Mexico, the two strands begin to feel less like jumps in time than a dialectic about alienation and connection, color and darkness.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024