| 单词 | Janus-faced |
| 例句 | Our understanding of facts is thus Janus-faced: at one moment we regard them as things, reality itself; at the next they are true beliefs, statements about reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I could not make sense of this Janus-faced husband who spoke false and true at once. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I took out the Janus-faced token, gazed at it one final time, and handed it to Horatio. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Trump the vulgarian brings with him, Janus-faced, Trump the authoritarian. Perspective | The world is going to $#!+, but our language shouldn’t 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Equipped with a substantial budget, I plunged into Rome’s pricier pleasures and discovered it is now a Janus-faced city, looking increasingly to the future even as it contemplates its remarkable past. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z Mr. Simon acknowledged that having twin characters, portrayed by the same actor, might seem like some Janus-faced conceit, but this was fact. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z These are small matters, however, against a bigger picture of a world on the cusp of modernity, with Conan Doyle standing Janus-faced, looking forward and back between scientific method and spiritualism; between liberalism and tradition. When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z There, you could hear what was lacking in “Perú Negro”: ambiguous exuberance, Janus-faced passages that misdirect and provoke, both inviting and impenetrable, forever irreconcilable. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Janus-faced and ambivalent to tropes, Daphne’s narration is riddled with omissions and reversals that intensify the mystery of the broken window. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z It illuminates not just Lincoln's Janus-faced character, but the much broader story of humankind's complex relationship with the animal world. Abe Lincoln, pig torturer? While he admitted to incredible cruelty, the answer isn't that simple 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z He was one of America's most Janus-faced leaders, a protean figure who could sincerely shift from the pragmatic reformer to the vengeful autocrat without any apparent qualms. Thoughtful pragmatist or unhinged bigot? Why experts are rethinking Nixon's psychopathology 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z “All this was torched — there was nothing left,” Maus, 75, said as she surveyed the Janus-faced landscape from her burned-out lot. Half their community burned in the Woolsey fire. Recovery is wreaking its own misery 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z So here’s a Janus-faced reading list, looking back on some of the best nonfiction I’ve read so far this year, then looking ahead to the fall: Lit Life: A book critic looks back on her favorite summer reads — and ahead to fall’s new releases 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z This interpretation of history is Janus-faced, however, because what can be constructed as great can just as easily be torn down. A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking - and irresponsible | Donna Murch 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Banksy’s Girl With Balloon seemed to fit this shallow Janus-faced aesthetic perfectly. Why putting £1m through the shredder is Banksy’s greatest work 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z That’s because of the “gig economy”, as it is sometimes called, is a Janus-faced — and relentlessly evolving — phenomenon. Is freelancing the future of employment? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead her position is oddly akin to the Janus-faced stance of the Trump administration: noisy about Salisbury, hushed about Russian sabotage of the 2016 vote. We like to mock Trump, but Britain’s Russia stance is even worse | Jonathan Freedland 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The Janus-faced approach — at once warm and friendly to Mr. Trump but at the same time keeping his options open — in some ways reflects the French love-hate relationship with the United States. Macron Takes a Risk in Courting Trump, but Has Little to Show for It 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The expiration date on this Janus-faced approach to Russia has arrived. Trump can no longer have it both ways on Russia 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The dwindling industrial heritage along with the burgeoning arts scene are only the latest version of the city’s Janus-faced character. The Ghosts of Turin 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z “As radical Whigs gained strength in North America, the political culture of the British Empire became increasingly Janus-faced.” We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But Bastar also represents the ugly side of India’s Janus-faced democracy. Central India’s Ugly Fight for Environmental Justice 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition of Immelt’s statement with the expression of support for Pruitt summed up corporate America’s Janus-faced attitude to the Trump Administration. Why Corporate America Must Stand Up to Trump 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The expiration date on this Janus-faced approach to Russia has arrived. Trump can no longer have it both ways on Russia 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z This seemed an obvious expression of Mr Trump’s Janus-faced political persona. The tower of silence 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Labor Secretary Tom Perez told CNN that Trump was “a loose cannon” and said his week of Janus-faced speeches “was a perfect illustration of why he’s not fit to be president”. Donald Tump’s fluctuating immigration stance worsens Republican tensions 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Noting that Jamaican port towns were “rarely the sites of slave rebellion”, the historian Barry Higman describes them as “Janus-faced barriers as well as portals to profits and progress”. Story of cities #9: Kingston, Jamaica – a city born of 'wickedness' and disaster 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z If so, the institute will become the latest in a long, unhappy line of those who pressed for a simple solution to the Janus-faced problems of mind-brain illness. Psychiatry’s Mind-Brain Problem 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The Janus-faced outlook was perhaps best exemplified by a stretch of the 1980 football schedule in which a game against top-ranked Alabama was sandwiched between ones against Cornell and William & Mary. Despite Rocky Start, Rutgers in the Big Ten Is Still Seen as a Big Win 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z We must have looked like some Janus-faced statue, our chins pointing east and west. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z But more than anything, the panelists stressed, liberalism is an idea, and a deadly one at that: a Janus-faced monster of moral relativism and authoritarianism. How DC's conservative elite view liberals 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Leo Zuckermann, a pundit, sums up their scepticism when he describes the government as “Janus-faced”. Turning on the charm 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She called it “Janus-faced,” adding, “The two faces of the statute do not easily cohere with each other.” Children ‘Aged Out’ for Citizenship Won’t Get Special Priority, Justices Rule 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The apparent application of a double standard only reinforces the image of a Janus-faced America. China's Xinhua says "Peeping Tom" U.S. risks own security by spying on allies 2013-11-01T10:10:16Z Further signs of seesaw struggle on a Janus-faced court? Change in the U.S.: Rolling Back DOMA and the Voting Rights Act 2013-06-27T11:05:26Z Of course, we will not force these Janus-faced wise men to vote upon the admissibility of psychic phenomena into the sphere of science. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Dante has well been called "the Janus-faced," because he stood at the threshold of the new era and looked both forward and backward. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Like the Liberals before them, they are Janus-faced. The new politics needs a realignment of the mind. It needs Caroline Lucas 2010-05-25T19:30:00Z But, then, he was a timid as well as a Janus-faced man, and probably said as he did because he did not know what else to say. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician They had their courts where justice was dispensed With what would shame the Janus-faced machine We call our jurisprudence. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Salome, fate is Janus-faced, and while frowning on you smiles benignantly on me. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part If the reader will keep this Janus-faced policy steadily in mind, he will understand the apparent inconsistencies in the diplomatic representations of the German Foreign Office. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia By the side of this Janus-faced historian, the heroes of the Talmud stand enveloped in glory. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Of course, there is a measure of truth in what you say, but it is only one side of the truth, and the truth, you know, is always Janus-faced. The House of the Vampire The Kansas-Nebraska act was a double-tongued statute, and the Cincinnati platform a Janus-faced banner. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 So it comes about that, if the eyes of the former generation were entirely averse from French rule, the present one is Janus-faced—looking both ways. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Mask after mask falls off, and it is terrible to see Janus-faced actuality. The Created Legend Life is Janus-faced, and the humourist invests his characters with a double mask; they stand for comedy as well as for tragedy; Don Quixote wears the buskin as well as the sock. Without Prejudice A friend is Janus-faced; he looks to the past and the future. Essays — First Series |
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