Example sentences for: manichean

How can you use “manichean” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This doesn't jibe at all with Chatterbox's moviegoing and movie-rental experience, which would put the "great or terrible" proportion no higher 10 percent . (Even Mrs. Chatterbox, whose view of life is somewhat more Manichean than Chatterbox's, puts the "great or terrible" proportion only at 20 percent .)

  • In each of these books--ingeniously structured around the cycle of the Hogwarts school year--Rowling manages to impart new information about the wizard world (and slyly fill you in in case you've missed the earlier installments, something that will become increasingly important as the series fills its projected seven volumes and sales figures mount into the trillions), to advance the long-term narrative conflict (about Harry's search for his origins, and his Manichean struggle with Voldemort, a wizard who's gone over to the Dark Side), and to create and resolve enough satisfying short- and middle-term conundrums to make the volume stand alone.


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