How to Use duality in a Sentence
duality
noun- They discussed the dualities of the novel's characters.
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There is a duality to the traits of an HSP, with stark pros and cons.
— Alex Wagner, SPIN, 12 May 2022 -
But Teni is no stranger to darkness, too, and Tears of the Sun takes its name from her duality.
— Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023 -
But being a hip-hop hunk is still, at the core, about range, duality, and skillset.
— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Like pink, cutesy toes with hearts and then spiky nails—a duality.
— Michella Oré, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022 -
The concept of duality is rooted in the very essence of a hero, like a coin with two distinct faces.
— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023 -
That duality gives the actors more to chew on than the usual MCU fare.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022 -
The duality of the club tears at the man who said he was molested starting at age 6.
— Michael R. Sisak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019 -
The duality of all this – the anguish and the joy – is impossible to grasp.
— Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 18 June 2018 -
What was the ‘90s duality like for you, being so loved by kids and teens, and so loathed by their parents?
— Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2022 -
The duality of dark and light is key to witchcraft, and to the most impactful TV witches on our list.
— Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024 -
The duality gets to the root of the dilemma for Nebraska as the program aims to get back to respectability in the Big Ten.
— Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021 -
That duality has helped make The 1975 one of the last decade’s most exciting rock bands on record and in interviews.
— Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022 -
People call this dilemma, this duality of the self, the mind/body problem.
— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021 -
Familiar Themes One of the most pervasive themes of the first season is the duality of love.
— Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Indeed, duality has always been at the heart of her work.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2021 -
That duality takes shape in many forms, one being love songs.
— Grant Sharples, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2023 -
The duality between the two emphasizes the fine line between the bizarre and the everyday.
— Photovogue, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Vaughn has built a cast that drives home the duality: spies in dad-mode attire versus agents decked out in their cocktail finest.
— Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Confronted with that duality, the works are a soft and somber evocation of the cruelty of the world.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The duality of our upbringings is something to be proud of.
— Jared Michael Lowe, Teen Vogue, 25 May 2018 -
Always a flashpoint growing up, the tension of that duality has flared up in the final stretch of the mayoral race.
— BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021 -
Albright struggled with the duality of her life, the eternal struggle of the working mom.
— Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022 -
Yeah, there is a duality to some of the ideas that Celine is presenting with Loyal.
— Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 28 June 2023 -
The duality of Harlem – of Black struggle and progress – comes through in Mr. Henderson’s closing words.
— Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024 -
The past year revealed very little to anyone who is awake to the duality of America.
— Kweku Ramel Akyirefi Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2021 -
This is also why the system is known as binary due to the duality of its nature.
— Gary Fowler, Forbes, 5 July 2021 -
Gallagher told Forbes that part of what drew him to the role was the duality of being near-emotionless and then bursting into song and dance.
— Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE.com, 8 Jan. 2020 -
All your titles in the series, though not announced, will have that duality.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021 -
String theory is quite interesting because of the idea of duality.
— Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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