Simpson continued to struggle with the "twoness" described by W.E.B. Du Bois in "The Souls of Black Folk" nearly a century ago -- the higher he reached for trappings of the white world, the more he distanced himself from his beginnings. From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
But the sick person either never develops his identity, or else cannot tolerate his "twoness," or separation. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
W.E.B. Du Bois named it when he wrote of a "twoness of being" in Souls of Black Folk. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: America: Yours, Mine, and Ours (Part 1)] Reference
But -- with a "twoness of being" that DuBois probably didn't imagine when he coined the term -- it was a deeply conflicted moment. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: Marriage Matters to Us] Reference
Their individual difference or twoness consists in the fact that each occupies a different place or is at a different position in space. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
My response to the events of the past week have been informed by that "twoness of being," and a conflict that demands I prioritize one part of my identity over another. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: Marriage Matters to Us] Reference
However, the hyphenated identity of African-American came into widespread use during the 1980s, and it encapsulates graphically, on the page and in the mind, the “twoness” that Du Bois describes. From Wordnik.com. [W. E. B. Du Bois, Carol Swain, and African-American Duality] Reference
When Nietzsche first encountered Spinoza he took it as a magical blessing that he had finally found an intellectual companion; his Einsamkeit (loneliness, solitude, but also oneness) became a Zweisamkeit (or twoness). From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
They were romantically self-conscious of the domestic appearance which their twoness caused. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
But - with a "twoness of being" that DuBois probably didn't imagine when he coined the term - it was a deeply conflicted moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Professah Lectures] Reference
Since then, my response to the events of the past week have been informed by that "twoness of being," and a conflict that demands I prioritize one part of my identity over another. From Wordnik.com. [The Bilerico Project] Reference
If the feeling of twoness or of oneness is anything but an inference, why is it that a person can perceive two objects on two fingers which are some distance apart, but perceives the same two objects as one when the fingers are brought near together and touched in the same way?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
(pure abstracts such as oneness and twoness) and the elements of his universe (air, water and earth) the names of some of the highest divinities in popular belief (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter). From Wordnik.com. [Atheism in Pagan Antiquity] Reference
To say that all active singulars feel ” leaving out of the picture abstractions like “twoness” or insentient composites of active singulars that do not themselves feel as wholes ” is not to say that they are self-conscious or that they think. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Hartshorne] Reference
I would enjoy some spiritual twoness, however. From Wordnik.com. [What can you say about those atheists who believe in God?] Reference
Similarly, Acts of Oneness (or twoness or eightness) must be remain in staterooms or designated "playrooms. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.BarstoolSports.com] Reference
We must not fail to notice that sometimes it is not clear whether a name means the composite substance, or the actuality or form, e.g. whether ‘house’ is a sign for the composite thing, ‘a covering consisting of bricks and stones laid thus and thus’, or for the actuality or form, ‘a covering’, and whether a line is ‘twoness in length’ or ‘twoness’, and whether an animal is soul in a body’ or ‘a soul’; for soul is the substance or actuality of some body. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
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