A Manichaean conflict between good and evil.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I'm enthralled when I hear the word Manichaean to describe what my characters just do.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Louise Erdrich] Reference

The term "Manichaean" is to him not only colorless, it's also not even black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [InstaPunk] Reference

We call it exemplary dualism or Manichaean dualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2009] Reference

I myself tend to be less, in a way, Manichaean about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back] Reference

In America today, we tend to see things in Manichaean terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Beinhart: Why Should We Bomb These People?] Reference

Manichaean conviction that sexuality is equivalent to sinfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOVE] Reference

"Manichaean Views of Buddhism," History of Religions, vol. 25, no.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� Bibliography] Reference

Furthermore, the Uighur aristocracy itself had not been exclusively Manichaean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs] Reference

Friends say they are never closer than when embattled in some Manichaean struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference

He was extremely broad-minded, however, and tolerated the Manichaean and Nestorian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 13 The Establishment of New Empires in Central Asia] Reference

Like our Manichaean president, they have a simple fixation: Are you with us or not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inconvenient Price] Reference

But the problem with this self-fulfilling Manichaean vision is that it can wear people out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: McCain's Moment] Reference

The Manichaean Shiites originally came from Baghdad (the Abbasid capital), as did the Sunnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

Bogu Qaghan, the Uighur emperor, adopted the Manichaean faith held by most of these merchants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 7 The Rise of the Abbasids and Decline of Tang China] Reference

The authors of this internal government report took a Manichaean view of America's rivalry with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would Our Government Really Start a War to Try to Stimulate the Economy?] Reference

The Manichaean and Jain beliefs also do not conform to the specified parameters mentioned in the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

The only non-Muslims in their realm whom they persecuted were those who professed the Manichaean faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 10 Islamic Sectarian Disputes and the Declaration of Jihads] Reference

His predecessor never seems to have freed himself entirely from the Manichaean conviction of cosmic evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Multan, made heretical and even more menacing by the inclusion of Manichaean elements among their beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 15 The Qarakhanid Campaign against Khotan] Reference

The Manichaean Shiites originally had the same list of prophets as the Ismailis, except for the addition of Mani.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

Deep within Stone is a Manichaean mind-set that has always needed to divide the world into good guys and villains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference

Gingrich's third Big Idea, though he doesn't ever quite admit it, is that American politics is a Manichaean struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, What's The Big Idea?] Reference

Defined in stark, Manichaean terms, last week's conflict in Russia provoked an emotional outcry in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Not Black And White] Reference

Further, he described the Tuin as accepting the Manichaean assertion of the universe being divided into good and evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhist-Muslim Doctrinal Relations: Past, Present, and Future] Reference

In that Manichaean, murderous Cold War milieu, Noriega managed to talk to just about everyone, and did so all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noriega’s Last Laugh] Reference

But in his epilogue, Mr. Flint admits that the story is more complex and less Manichaean than his main narrative suggests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Here, She Said] Reference

The Epistle to Hero plainly alludes to Manichaean errors, and could not therefore have been written before the third century.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

The non-Indic invaders would be the descendants of the Manichaean and Manichaean-Shiite converts within the Ismaili community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

He used it for both administrative as well as religious purposes, employing Sogdians to translate Manichaean texts into Uighur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 9 The Religious Conversions of the Uighurs] Reference

This would support the hypothesis that the compilers of the Kalachakra texts confused the Manichaean Shiites with the Ismailis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

After joining the Ismailis, the Manichaean Shiites adopted the Ismaili list, but maintained their identity by adding Mani to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

The Buddhist scholars probably knew of the Manichaean Shiites and the Abbasid prejudice against them as being dangerous to society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

McCain's Manichaean worldview drove him to his signature legislative achievement, the McCain-Feingold law's restrictions on campaigning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danielle Celena Belton: The George Will Revolt] Reference