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The plot is a Manichaean moral dilemma: three traveling buddies buy a brick of hash while on vacation in Malaysia.
Seen from a historian's perspective, Scalia's view of the debate over the judiciary does look a bit Manichaean.
The analysis of art profits nothing by a Manichaean opposition of form and content.
With his susceptibility to ridicule and parody, his air of furtive portentousness, his apocalyptic Manichaean vision of purity overtaken by disease, his dazzling displays of the uncanny intuitive skills that sometimes accompany obsession, he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others.
There are scenes from provincial life that derive from absolute hierarchies, which, in turn, are built on Manichaean oppositions: The Afrikaners, with whom he must share a last name, are crude, their language filthy beyond belief.