Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds. |
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Martin declares that he is a Manichaean, someone who believes that the material world is fundamentally evil. |
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In the movies, similar extravagance only fuels childish fantasies of omnipotence and Manichaean notions of how evil exists in the world. |
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The script was used to write Manichaean literature in many different languages to spread its teachings. |
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In the depths of his imagination, where his poetry was born, he remained vengefully Manichaean. |
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Mr Bergman's portrayal of Israel's confrontation with Iran will also strike some non-Israeli readers as excessively Manichaean. |
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We need urgently to adjust our simplistic Manichaean view which sees Islamism as solely responsible for the current deterioration. |
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The Gnostic and Manichaean struggles had ripened the idea that, although at times diseases are punishments by the Almighty, the main agency in them is Satanic. |
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The world in his view was a Manichaean one, one of darkness and of light, and we in the Liberal Party were unwilling to ever take a stand on these issues. |
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All of these elements should help us to water down certain democratic declarations of faith and to avoid any simplistic and Manichaean view of the reality of Ukrainian politics. |
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Just in case you feel I am only aiming outward, I must admit that those working in national security are not immune to this Manichaean, black-and-white thinking as well. |
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I think it partly has to do with specific incentives for different businesses, but part of it is due to political dynamics created by America's two-party system and our penchant for Manichaean thinking. |
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It is therefore important to avoid being Manichaean in this respect too. |
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Drawing on the work of Julia Kristeva, Oropesa sees Widows as depicting a Manichaean, yet modern ethics. |
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Pardon me if I exaggerate somewhat, but I sometimes got the impression that you and some of your colleagues had a positively Manichaean way of interpreting it. |
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Knowledge of his teachings was greatly increased by the discovery in the early 20th century of many fragments of Manichaean literature in eastern Turkistan. |
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Is it easier to see the world in Manichaean black and white? |
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I have learned that outcomes, at least when it comes to technology, are not as manichaean as we believe them to be in the moment. |
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It is harder to strike pouting, manichaean postures now, when a black man holds the highest office in the land. |
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How else to explain this manichaean reaction to young men from a part of India, Kashmir, which bridles against its place in India? |
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