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

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Montaigne's doubleness lives on in the age of the Internet.
Our Nature is Not Our Fate
In the last and most powerful essay, "The Aquarium," Hereon eschews memory and doubleness as he confronts the prolonged illness and horrific death of his infant daughter, to whom he dedicated this collection.
Aleksandar Hemon. The Book of My Lives
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
Instead of calling on external criteria to address the text, theory reconceives the operation of critique as purely internal to the text understood as the bearer of its social determination: as 'deconstruction' (Derrida), the unraveling of the text's own semantic tracery; or as 'resistance' (Foucault), the necessary doubleness of social systems when conceived as closed circuits, or topoi of pure immanence.
Editorial remarks: recognizing critique
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.
Patrick Warner. Double Talk
This, though it may happen in an instant, is a fundamental reorganization, creating a doubleness where singleness should be.
Gothic interiority and servants in Wharton's A Backward Glance and "The Lady's Maid's Bell"
The phrase "what was given, what freely chosen" characterizes a doubleness or multiplicity I find moving in its careful self-reflection.
The Complexity of Life
This difficulty forms a doubleness of connection and division that reveals relation as beautifully textured and deeply bound.
Suspend
After a brief introductory chapter evoking the example of the slippery doubleness of Erasmus's fool Moria in Praise of Folly and invoking the New Critical approach of William Empson, chapter 2 describes foolery from Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona, the Dromios in Comedy of Errors, Bottom and Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream, and Dogberry in Much Ado through Touchstone in As You Like It, Feste in Twelfth Night, and Lavatch and Parolles in All's Well That Ends Well.
Robert H. Bell. Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
Feinbergs chapter thus builds on Malkin's analysis of the Jewish actor's capacity for on-stage doubleness as a social strategy to hide his identity as a Jew, while revealing a specific Jewish expressive creativity.
Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

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