How to Use diptych in a Sentence
diptych
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Among the paintings that adorn the walls is a diptych of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump.
—The Economist, 21 June 2018
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The piece works as a cross-cutting diptych between 1920 and the present day.
—Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
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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
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Single versions of the diptych are available as well, and those start at just £199.
—Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 7 July 2018
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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
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The diptych originated with a phone call from Sendak that began with a quiz.
—Michael Cooper, New York Times, 9 July 2018
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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
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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
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This desert terrain is the world of Harrow, too; the novels form a diptych of devastation.
—Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
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And instead of staging the diptych over two days, Desplechin has condensed it into one evening.
—Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Traditionally, mug shots come with both frontal and profile views—a diptych.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
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It is composed as a diptych: one half biography, one half memoir.
—Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In this darkly comic Edward Albee diptych, the outside world has its uncertainties and terrors.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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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