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Related to doubleness: follow suit, catch up, in the first place, the likes of

DOUBLE. Twofold; as, double cost; double insurance; double plea.

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Montaigne's doubleness lives on in the age of the Internet.

It's the doubleness, when you go away and you come back.

In contrast, she notes that Wayson Choy's use of the "doubleness" of language allows for the constant work of rupture that Lai sees as necessary for anti-racist literary practices (53).

Larissa Lai. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s

He then moves on to discuss the doubleness of meaning of words, suggesting that it is 'the duality of meaning that characterises the interplay between the finite and the infinite' (p.

Spyra, Piotr, The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet

Irony: if one of its features is doubleness, another implicit but less often remarked upon feature is its simultaneity or synchronization.

Disiunct quatrains

The doubleness of this "moi," like the doubleness of Julien's rueful "je suis hypocrite avec moi-meme," renders it oddly empty; though Journaux et papiers is replete with tables listing all the possible human personalities and the various combinations in which they might be most dramatically productive, the one personality missing from these pages is Henri Beyle's.

Stendhal. Journaux et papiers. Volume I: 1797-1804

After the authoritative text are 100 pages of criticism, character studies and other material that look at letters by Austen and consider the new style of the novel or the language of feeling that reflect on doubleness and refrain.

Persuasion; 2d ed

Thus, Miyoshi's memorably-titled lecture "Japan is Not Interesting" (2000) implicitly acknowledges that the type of doubleness associated with the concept of "Japan" had become all too common throughout the world.

Masao Miyoshi. Trespasses: Selected Writings

That 'doubleness' allows us to see the mechanics of theatre.

Sister act; In quite the turnaround for the Prince of Denmark a new all-female production of Hamlet is going to show Shakespeare's classic in a whole new light. Karen Price talks to Isabella Marshall - the woman taking on the title role

The four "stances" or "expectations" Noll presents are doubleness, contingency, particularity, and self-denial.

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind

Singer's alternation of narrative strands moves the reader in and out of Osvaldo's story and also establishes a general condition of doubleness in the novel as a whole.

Alan Singer. The Inquisitor's Tongue

That said, it is Brian who most explicitly states the novel's preoccupation with doubleness and irony.