How to Use diptych in a Sentence

diptych

noun

• Among the paintings that adorn the walls is a diptych of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The piece works as a cross-cutting diptych between 1920 and the present day.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• By 1775, the Collegiate Church was in dire need of funds for a restoration and sold the diptych, breaking it apart.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
• Single versions of the diptych are available as well, and those start at just £199.
  — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 7 July 2018
• The second quote, from the same novel, forms a kind of diptych with the first: Adam is at a poetry reading.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• The diptych originated with a phone call from Sendak that began with a quiz.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• The two-part diptych artwork features a girl and boy walking hand-in-hand in black and white, alongside the title quote in red script.
  — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 3 Sep. 2018
• The scene in which the erotic disaster unfolds forms a sort of diptych with the deflowering scene in Lessons.
  — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• This desert terrain is the world of Harrow, too; the novels form a diptych of devastation.
  — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• And instead of staging the diptych over two days, Desplechin has condensed it into one evening.
  — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Clasen bought an Eric Vallely photo of a diver in the ocean with his fins up, cut it in two, and turned it into a diptych to hang in the living room.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
• The final image was a diptych, showing Strangio reflected in the mirror of his bathroom, and a pair of gray slacks, a white shirt, and a plaid tie hanging on a door.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• Digital glitches appear as black bars that read like redactions, and nod to the bullet holes in the original diptych.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• That’s the story told by the film’s poster, which features a diptych of star Mark Wahlberg, looking rough and rueful in a mug shot and then beatific in Catholic clergy apparel.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But the black cat who gazes outward from the bottom of a diptych just emphasizes the spectator's essential solitude.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• Traditionally, mug shots come with both frontal and profile views—a diptych.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• It is composed as a diptych: one half biography, one half memoir.
  — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• Together, the stew and the kebobs present the guest with a brilliant diptych, two distinct angles from which to appreciate the facets of a complex flavor profile.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
• The first two seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale form a loose diptych, mirroring and subverting each other in fascinating ways.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 11 July 2018
• In this way, My Phantoms and First Love function almost as a diptych, shining light upon and reflecting each other’s concerns and questions.
  — Catherine Lacey, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
• Even leaving aside Lie’s presence, the two films are in conversation with each other, a diptych about female desire and ambition.
  — Vulture, 11 Feb. 2022
• Even better, an expansive diptych in acrylic from 1984 that will take over an entire gallery wall will make that experience immersive.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2020
• Carcasses of birds and a small rabbit lie next to flower arrangements in lyrical funerary arrays, and a diptych shows the withering of dogweed leaves over just two days.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• Walter Niedermayr’s diptych of a snowy mountain is a mystery: What exactly are those people doing there?
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• The experts at Turquin in Paris reportedly used infrared reflectography to confirm that the piece was part of the diptych containing eight scenes of the passion and crucifixion of Christ.
  — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
• In this darkly comic Edward Albee diptych, the outside world has its uncertainties and terrors.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• This year, all eyes are on Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck, a diptych about two kids living in different generations connected by a common quest.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 May 2017
• Julia Wachtel provides a lively lampoon of Salle: a diptych of two African tribal sculptures teamed with a nebbishy creature, likely copied from a joke greeting card, who sheds a tear while hoisting an immense daisy.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• Today, in response to the flurry of questions about them, West tweeted a diptych including a photograph of what appeared to be a modern version of the traditional Japanese shoe, the geta.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
• The exhibition includes one such diptych issued by the Roman general Justin on becoming consul in 540.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 16 July 2021

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