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How to use Manichean in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Manichean? Here are some examples.

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The cardinal presented a strange, Manichean interpretation of twentieth-century history.
Impatience and Manichean thinking are among the burdens of youth politics, whether in Berkeley or Cairo.
And if good can come from evil, does this undermine a simplistic Manichean view of morality?
Clearly, that would be a contemporary form of Manichean dualism amounting to a denial of God's lordship, power, and redemption.
I was born a Manichean, an original distruster of flesh and blood.
However, haunted not only by his Manichean past but, soon, by Pelagian boasts of human moral competence, Augustine was never able to shake his anxieties about freedom.
This worldview has bifurcated worldly politics into a transcendently significant battle that has a Manichean logic of absolute good and utter evil.
A Manichean who believes the world is essentially evil will draw radically different moral lessons than a pantheist who finds God present everywhere in his creation.
Now that same Manichean worldview has led the neocons to support an Afghan surge.
She lumps Manichean Cathars together with Franciscans and Waldensians.
It seems likely though, that something of the Manichean and Bogomilist attitude toward dead bodies enters into the picture.
Marcus, a native of Memphis in Egypt, came to Spain and taught Gnostic and Manichean theories.
The conflict between capital and labor is therefore reduced to its primitive Manichean opposition and to forms of luddism that were never part of Gramsci's vision.
To Reagan's credit, this is hardly the Manichean outlook of an ideologue.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Emperor Michel, in 811, renewed all the laws which condemned the Manichean heretics to death.
Under the reign of Robert in 1007 several heretics were burned at Orleans for tenets which are represented as Manichean.
This distinction is thoroughly Manichean, and leaves no doubt as to the origin of the Albigenses.
These examples show the difference which was made between the Manichean and other heresies.
We are going to make a party to hear this Manichean of poesy.
His mythology, when he came to paint the world in myths, was Manichean.
But Chesterton is too much of a Manichean to let it go at that.
Perhaps the Manichean in De Gourmont fabricated its revolting images.
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