Sentences with word «doubleness»

Here, too, the speaker has his own life, his own frailties, his own share of doubleness of mind.

Will you in doubleness of mind despair?

And indeed, fear of punishment has made the sinner into a hypocrite, who in hypocrisy's loathesome doubleness of mind pretended to love God (for the fear was to take the medicine in the wrong way), but it has never made him pure of heart.

The Centaur, Updike's award - winning novel of 1964, declares our essential doubleness in its very title.

If you buy into the belief that they embody «profound meditations on doubleness», you'll glean something worthwhile from them.

DUPLICITY: Contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action; especially: the belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words or action.

The doubleness of all things is cause for rejoicing, it follows, rather than lamentation.

Oh, to edify oneself in a living way with the sufferings of others is a comfort, and to dwell too exclusively on one's own suffering may easily become that doubleness of mind which thinks that there is comfort for all others but none for itself.

While that sort of thematic doubleness is unsurprising in an action movie, the doubleness embodied by Ghost is slightly knottier.

The doubleness is at once frightening and delicious, like conversing with a friend standing behind one's back, while watching her face in a looking - glass.

The painting is an anomaly on two counts: its doubleness and its heterogeneous structure combining horizontal and vertical strokes.

«The Peking ink paintings are fascinating for their doubleness... Each of these paintings is two paintings, one on top of the other.

To overcome the «doubleness» inherent in energy, Dr. Birol said, it is essential to «create an atmosphere of global cooperation and understanding in which each country in the world can decide on its own future.»