They think best in Manichean black and white terms — centered around Who?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Profiling Lite] Reference

It is known as Manichean thinking – only absolutes – and no ability to see the vagaries of life or the many hues of gray between black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: "Mr. Bush You Are A Fascist!"] Reference

To him, I am some kind of Manichean figure whom people love or love to hate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange] Reference

It could be that "Manichean" is an explanation, but we have yet to read the rest of the Post's series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

"It could be that "Manichean" is an explanation, but we have yet to read the rest of the Post's series".    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

But that kind of Manichean (and McCainian) thinking will not keep Americans safe from harm in today's world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nina Hachigian: Russian Debutante: Palin on Putin] Reference

This can be extended to any kind of Manichean language.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

He complains that Kenneth Turan uses the term 'dark pearl' in the same sentence that he trots out 'Manichean'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Islam's "Manichean" worldview, which splits the world between good and evil, is a product of Islamic law and jurisprudence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Watch] Reference

In other words, all argumentation functions as a kind of Manichean ethics, in which political good and evil work independently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurozine articles] Reference

These imagined Manichean fault lines defy logic and reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trita Parsi: Israel, Gaza and Iran: Trapping Obama in Imagined Fault Lines] Reference

It's easy to paint Manichean portraits of political figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drew Westen: What Voters Saw Tuesday Night] Reference

Way to view the world of consumer products in a Manichean way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem With iPhone Killers…] Reference

I'm so tired of this Manichean world/cultural view of everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Tight Race In Ohio] Reference

Another Manichean term for the perfecti, the elite and "perfect" among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

A moral, Manichean little war, albeit doomed to failure from the very beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross M. Levine: In Praise of Foley] Reference

The later adherents of the school appear to have moved towards a Manichean dualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

No longer can U.S. policymakers be guided by the Manichean simplicity of the cold war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Central America, 1980?] Reference

In this Manichean struggle, compromise came to look like weakness, to be punished or purged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Audacity of Hope]

Do you think we would have had the same results with John McCain's Manichean view in charge?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The Manichean mind-set of those days did not allow for much sophisticated thought about the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limits Of Democracy] Reference

Sure, he had a Manichean world-view and split the world into those who are "with us" or "against us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Drew Westen: All the President's Values] Reference

But he wants to clarify something: that he wasn't thinking of a two-sided Manichean struggle for the soul of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mailer Was the Rage] Reference

The battle must be between two Manichean ideals: capitalism vs. communism, Western enlightenment vs. jihadist terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derrick Crowe: The Explosion of the Afghan Insurgency: Utterly Predictable, Yet Hotly Debated] Reference

Manichean vanities, to be freed from whom I was going away -- though neither they nor I were aware of it at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

Worse, the Manichean view of a kill-or-be-killed game is uncomfortably close to today's real-life religious fanaticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glory of the Shooter] Reference

We must draw the battle lines now, they warn, and engage in a great Manichean struggle that will define the next century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Rest] Reference

Manichean -- should beg for any food, the morsel that we gave to him would seem condemned, as it were, to capital punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

Its spillover potential has dangerous implications for global security and demands transcendence of a Manichean simplification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chechnya: Moving Beyond Radical Islam to Historical Subtleties] Reference

I respect Melanie Phillips for her facts and her integrity, I just dislike her tendency to be outright Manichean in her equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Rhee's failing: She is "wedded to a Manichean world view in which she is 'for the kids' and everyone else is standing in her way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 21, 2010] Reference

Much is said and written about the duality that is in us; and many of us are Manichean without knowing technically what the term means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men in the Making] Reference

Both of this week's Hollywood blockbusters are sword-and-sorcery epics of Manichean bent, one dumbly solemn, the other alertly cheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Airbender; The Sorcerer's Apprentice] Reference

Thus the zeal with which I had plunged into the Manichean system was checked, and I despaired even more of their other teachers, because.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference