| 单词 | Manichaean |
| 例句 | Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He sings and plays bass and harmonica for the Manichaean Blues Band, a group he started back in San Antonio, where he’s from. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Manichaeans, see, were followers of this Persian guy who lived in the third century. They believed that hedonism was the only way to get rid of their sins.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This demonizes the Persians far more than the Greeks did and imposes a Manichaean scheme of light versus darkness onto an ancient world where shades of gray were far more common. ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Set in a New York City subway in 1964, Amiri Baraka’s “The Dutchman” is all about the Manichaean struggle between the black male character, Clay, and the white female character Lula. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z She also wrote of the “Manichaean tone to some of the passages in this book, and at times, a hazardous tendency to generalize.” The Times's Reviews of National Book Award Winners 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z If Thyberg doesn’t adhere to that template, it’s because she wants to get past the Manichaean arguments; she knows the horrors, as an excruciating scene underscores. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Who is the woman gazing from that photograph, that attractive brunette halved vertically into Manichaean contrasts of darkness and light? After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z But the people on both sides trying to argue those positions are partisan hacks, desperately trying to spin the Cantor-quake such that it fits into the established Manichaean narrative of American politics. A fissure in the dam of political reality: How Eric Cantor’s defeat foreshadows the coming apocalypse 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z What if the Holocaust and its Manichaean world of victim and perpetrator, powerless and all-powerful, innocent and vile, were always playing in the background, twisting and mangling the contours of reality? When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Howarth is skilled at taking the old forms of the Western — the thrill of the chase, the Manichaean nonsense of “civilized” and “savage” — and reshaping them to address contemporary concerns. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The nominations in the best feature documentary category set up an almost Manichaean split in the field. Carpetbagger: Political Conflict and Art Dominate Documentary Field 2014-01-16T16:00:57Z Devotees of Tanglewood may share a love of music, but they are riven by one Manichaean divide: inside on a seat, or outside on the lawn? In Transit Blog: Yo-Yo Ma on the Magic of Tanglewood and the Berkshires 2012-07-06T14:54:55Z Manichaean title notwithstanding, it is not an easy fable to parse. ‘Black God, White Devil’: Holy War in Brazil’s Backlands 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A New York Times book review accused him of "Manichaean simplicities" and employing "several formulations favored by anti-Semites." AP Interview: Author rattles US Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T19:44:11Z Published in 1950, Paz’s essay endures for its imaginative associations and musical prose, though it is contentious: Some anthropologists and historians consider his definition of Mexicanness to be Manichaean and contrived. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But even today, the conversation focuses on “work-life balance,” which implicitly accepts the notion of work and life as Manichaean opposites — perpetually in conflict. Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Too often, television shows split personalities along the same lines as their bipolar disorder, painting characters Manichaean dark when symptomatic, light when even-keeled. ‘Homeland’ Begins Its New Season on Sunday 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z And that Manichaean scale is all too evident on the screen. Women on TV Step Off the Scale 2012-10-11T12:00:00Z “Abreu’s vision is Manichaean,” Mr. Baker writes, in one of his milder charges. ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z A New York Times book review accused him of “Manichaean simplicities” and employing “several formulations favored by anti-Semites.” Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z During the Manichaean rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, India’s commitment to state-led industrialization and a foreign policy of nonalignment was suspect in American eyes. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z And though George W. Bush’s name is never invoked, “American Sniper” can be seen as an expression of nostalgia for his Manichaean approach to foreign policy. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Campbell had a Manichaean single-mindedness and the most extraordinary energy. Diaries, Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell ? review 2011-07-07T09:55:00Z But his book does provide some useful insights into the dangers of propaganda — and its reliance upon mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling. ‘How Propaganda Works’ Is a Timely Reminder for a Post-Truth Age 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z There are two planets — or what seem more like “pocket universes” — Apokolips and New Genesis — that represent the Manichaean extremes of good and evil. Reading irresponsibly with Jack Kirby 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z There is a Manichaean tone to some of the passages in this book, and at times, a hazardous tendency to generalize. Review: In ‘Between the World and Me,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a Desperate Dispatch to His Son 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z If the founding of the American republic was imbedded with ambiguities that conservatives refuse to acknowledge, the country’s greatest internal crisis ought to appeal to their generally binary, Manichaean worldview. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Mainstream media and members of Congress were almost all enthralled with a Manichaean worldview that has evolved and persisted. The urbanity of evil: 20 years after the Iraq invasion, the lies continue 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z People with paranoid personalities are particularly vulnerable, as are those with a Manichaean worldview—a perception that the entire world is a battle between good and evil. A 3-step plan to deprogram American idiocracy 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z “It gave the story a Manichaean air that I didn’t like, because obviously they were the bad guys,” he said. Pedro Almodóvar Is Still Making Movies That Shock 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z In the feverish aftermath of 9/11, he framed the battle in Manichaean terms, not just as a law enforcement or counterterrorism challenge, but as a twilight struggle between good and evil. 20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along With No End in Sight 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “His primary goal was to do his job while being completely sycophantic to Trump, even if he came off as Manichaean and un-nuanced,” said Tom Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Pompeo clings to Trump’s legacy with an eye toward inheriting the MAGA base 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The world suddenly becomes a Manichaean battleground between them and us, the forces of dark and the forces of light. American bloodlands: In a deeply polarized nation, mass violence is not far away 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Most Americans describe Trump in Manichaean terms — he’s brilliant or terrible, compassionate or irredeemably cruel. William Taylor Jr., a key impeachment witness, quietly returns home to Trump’s Washington 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He’s got the fire and the brimstone, the Manichaean struggle between good and evil and only one path to salvation from certain doom — him, of course. From Bryan to Bernie 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z In the opening moments of the Soviet contest—what Orwell warned would be the “peace that is no peace”—Americans faced what appeared to be a Manichaean choice: appeasement or a world war. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Eliot’s Manichaean response creates an association between emotional chaos and creativity and opposes it with the idea of stability and non-production. Never date a poet. They’ll always do the dirty on you | Alex Clark 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z It reassures them that they stand on one pole in a Manichaean conflict between good and evil. A New Year's resolution for Democrats: To win in 2020, get the f**k over 2016 already 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Unlike the previous Great War of 1914-1918, which was fought for mere empire, Hitler’s war was understood in distinctly Manichaean terms as both apocalyptic and transcendent. What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall means 30 years later 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Of course there is the stupefied, Manichaean divide around the Trump presidency, which is either restoring America to lost greatness or pushing toward fascist dictatorship. Jeff Bezos and the Enquirer: Everything bad and stupid about America in one package! 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “The political class is now addicted to Manichaean conflict as a way of life,” Mr. Epstein said. Trump Confronts the Prospect of a ‘Nonstop Political War’ for Survival 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Hedges excoriates followers of the Christian right as “Manichaeans” who view the world in good-and-evil terms, but then he demonizes his political opponents and invokes black-and-white dichotomies with a cringe-worthy lack of self-reflection. Review | A relentlessly dark indictment of global capitalism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z McCain took a Manichaean view of foreign affairs, looking to put American military might behind those professing the advancement of democratic values and against those violating those ideals. ‘Resolute in his beliefs, even pugnacious’: McCain remembered as tough on military brass 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But Sturgeon’s sense of the universe was never Manichaean, and its problems couldn’t be repaired with a screwdriver. Celebrating Theodore Sturgeon's centenary - so should we all 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z That small Central American country was seen by both left and right as the locus of a Manichaean conflict between the Sandinista revolution and the Reagan administration-backed contra rebels. Opinion | Ortega is becoming the type of autocrat he once despised 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Ah the delights of Manichaean writing: we are good, he's the devil. A Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets an American Strategic Void 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “It was almost Manichaean,” said Mr. Chavez, who has been a Goldman partner since 2005 and its chief financial officer since April. Marty Chavez Muses on Rocky Times and the Road Ahead 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Trump did commit himself to the Western alliance, but in an otherwise gloomy, backward-looking and Manichaean address. Opinion | Trump has done a big favor for small-d democrats left and right 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The Pelagians said that Augustine was simply reverting to the old Manichaean belief that the flesh was the creation and the possession of a wicked force. How St. Augustine Invented Sex 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z So you get a buildup of scapegoating, shaming and Manichaean condemnation. Guilt, victimhood and moral indignation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Still, for a sophisticated consumer of news, Mr. Trump retains a brutally simple, almost Manichaean view of his coverage: good stories are good, bad stories are evil. Trump vs. the Press: A Small-Town Boy (Well, Sort of) in Washington 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Data and evidence are now meaningless in comparison to the cowardice at the core of Trump supporters, who increasingly see the world in simplistic, Manichaean terms. Children’s crusade: Trump’s “movement” is a bunch of whiny, frightened infants who can’t handle democracy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Some precincts of the running news media delight in casting his battle with Bolt in Manichaean terms, darkness versus light. Usain Bolt’s Showdown With Justin Gatlin Carries a Sense of History Passing 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z When he arrived at Thagaste for his first teaching position, Augustine’s mother was loath to share a house with him, not because of his mistress and child but, rather, because of his Manichaean beliefs. How St. Augustine Invented Sex 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z This Manichaean story is a vast oversimplification for a variety of reasons, but it did inform the way many voters, especially on the left, viewed the primaries. Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Even George W. Bush, one of our most Manichaean presidents, was able to set aside zero-sum thinking when diplomacy demanded it. Presidents need to be able to do nothing. Donald Trump can’t do it. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A general election pitting Clinton against Trump would offer about the most Manichaean contrast imaginable in American electoral politics, thus easily fulfilling McDonald’s second condition. Why the Turnout in November Should Help Hillary Clinton 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Chambers was a Manichaean, and to him the Hiss case was a conflict between God and Man without God. Why Leftists Go Right 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z When Cruz, on the other hand, quotes or paraphrases Bible passages, speaks in Manichaean terms about good and evil, or leads in prayer, it strikes the faithful as credible and true. Ted Cruz, human dog whistle: Evangelicals — those “courageous conservatives” — know exactly what he is talking about 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Movement conservatism is compelling for so many people because of its visceral emotional appeal, and how the mindsets of conservative authoritarians are oriented toward accepting a Manichaean, binary, fear-centered, and dominance-oriented perspective of the world. Inside the GOP’s hallucinatory dogma: How the politics of paranoia & disorientation conquered the Republican mind 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton would be wise to avoid this Manichaean viewpoint. Hillary Clinton Still the Same Candidate 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “The drug war and its propaganda has worked. It’s been going on for a long time. They see it as a Manichaean good versus evil, and talk about a regulated approach seems like a surrender.” Latin America and U.S. Split in Drug Fight 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And we were tired and leery of an oversimplified, Hollywood version of world affairs, of the Manichaean lexicon of “evil empire” and “axis of evil.” Obama’s understatement of the world situation 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The principal symptom of Cold War virus is a form of bipolar disorder, an insistence on viewing the world in Manichaean terms, divided into warring camps of good and evil, light and darkness. Strange bedfellows: Putin, the Chomskyite left and the ghosts of the Cold War 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z It has advanced a totalitarian Islamist vision and a Manichaean view of Jews. Mahmoud Abbas: Winning on Points 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z With Rosenthal’s photo of Iwo Jima, it gave a nation reeling from great sacrifice a reminder of why they were fighting in the first place — a Manichaean triumph of good over evil. Marine to Marine Corps museum: You can’t have Saddam’s flag for propaganda 2013-04-09T11:45:00Z I never much cared for Tri-ang, perhaps because some of my father's Manichaean spirit had rubbed off on me. Britain's long history of model-making may be the Olympics' biggest loser 2012-09-28T20:30:01Z Honorius was equally severe on heretics, such as the Donatists and Manichaeans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z St. Mark's assertion that the voices of the ancient Prophets, were “the beginning of the Gospel”—of whom John Baptist was assumed to be the symbol,—was habitually cast in the teeth of the Manichaeans. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z Affirming the natural inability of man, he unwittingly fell into expressions consonant with the Manichaean view of sin, as not an accident of human nature, but involved in its substance, since the Fall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Your words about the heresies and the Gnostics and Manichaeans were all thrown away. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z But the absence of doubt in so much of Reagan's repertoire -- the Manichaean streak he routinely displayed -- applied to other, darker aspects of his rhetorical legacy. The divisive underbelly of Reagan's sunny optimism 2011-02-03T16:31:00Z Along with the condemnation of the Gnostics and Manichaeans as heretical, the doctrine of re-birth was likewise condemned by various ecclesiastical bodies and councils. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z A fully initiated Manichaean would not even cut his own salad, but employed a catechumen to commit on his behalf this act of murder, for which he subsequently shrived him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Manichaeans, again, holding their spiritual being to be unaffected by the action of matter, regarded carnal sins as being, at worst, forms of bodily disease. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" But in addition to these doctrines of an adoptionist origin, they held the Manichaean dualistic conception of the origin of the world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" He is of the opinion, however, that the Manichaean song mentioned by Augustine, 354-430, affords some idea of Mithraic poetry. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries In particular he persecuted mercilessly the Manichaeans and all kinds of freethinkers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Among the Gnostics and Manichaeans it existed in its most developed type, and in a milder form it is to be found even in the writings of the orthodox teachers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It is ordered that Sabellians, Montanists, Manichaeans, Valentianists and such like shall be baptized just as pagans are, after instruction and examination in the faith, and, after insufflation, by triple immersion. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 Doctrine.—From the imperfect and conflicting data which are alone available one positive result can be gathered, viz. that the Bogomils were both Adoptionists and Manichaeans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" According to this supposition, also, the Manichaeans, thinking that God was corporeal light, held that the soul was part of that light bound up with the body. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition For it must be taken into consideration that the objections of the Manichaeans are hardly less contrary to natural theology than to revealed theology. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil I am compelled, therefore, on such principles, either to adopt a Manichaean hypothesis of the universe, or do what I have done,—adopt none at all. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Hunneric, the next Vandal king, though nominally an Arian, set himself to extirpate heresies which he did not accept: Manichaeans under his sway received treatment more severe than Catholics. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 The Slavonic sources are unanimous on the point that his teaching was Manichaean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The Manichaeans, as well as the Gnostics, rejected the doctrine of the atonement, and as faith in the perfection of the cleansing virtue of the blood of Christ declined, a belief in Purgatory became popular. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution M. Bayle, in the article entitled 'Paulicians' inserted by him in his Dictionary, follows up the pronouncements he made in the article on the Manichaeans. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil In other words, I feel that I must become an Atheist, a Pantheist, a Manichaean, or—what I am—a sceptic. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Likewise Augustine in his book against the Manichaeans: =The vanity of the gentiles is repressed and refuted by the use of their own authorities.= Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities The early Christian Fathers; the Gnostic and Manichaeans and other sects of the Early Christian people, all held to the doctrine. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga His disciples, called Manichees or Manichaeans, assumed the name of a Church, and were divided into two classes, the Elect and the Hearers. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution He treats of the matter with abundant detail in his Dictionary, article 'Manichaeans', p. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil From Armenia in the eighth century came the Manichaean sect of Paulicians into Thrace, and for twenty generations played a considerable part in the history of the Eastern Empire. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty When I had discovered to her that I was now no longer a Manichaean, though not yet a Catholic Christian, she was not overjoyed as at something unexpected. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters For if any one should intend to disapprove of the merits that men acquire by the assistance of divine grace, he would agree with the Manichaeans rather than with the Catholic Church. The Confutatio Pontificia The Gnostic and Manichaean struggles had ripened the theologic idea that, although at times diseases are punishments by the Almighty, the main agency in them is Satanic. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Why should he not, then, just as well be the evil principle of the Manichaeans as the single good principle of the orthodox? Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil—also the Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians, Mohammedans, and all such. The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 This work was considered tainted with the Manichaean heresy, and was condemned to the flames, and some assert that Palmieri shared the fate of his book. Books Fatal to Their Authors The road toward true faith and reverence for God's kingdom of heaven does not lie through Manichaean contempt and slander of God's kingdom of earth. Two Years Ago, Volume I No Grecian system of philosophy, except Platonism, entered into the Christian system so influentially as the disastrous Manichaean heresy, which Augustine combated. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Alas! as Augustine said once, bitterly enough, of his own Manichaean teachers, Hypatia had taken away the living God, and given him instead the four Elements.... Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face The Manichaeans, who formed a very numerous sect at the commencement of Christianity, rejected as false all the New Testament, and showed other writings quite different that they gave for authentic. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason For if any one an hungered, not a Manichaean, should ask for any, that morsel would seem as it were condemned to capital punishment, which should be given him. The Confessions of St. Augustine In 807 the Manichaean sect made formal application to be allowed to have recognised places of meeting; shortly after which they too disappear from history. Religions of Ancient China The Cathars, Paulicians, Albigenses and so on held, with the Manichaeans, that the God of Nature, God the Father, was evil. God the Invisible King Of the matter, however, there was no comparison; for the one was wandering amid Manichaean delusions, the other teaching salvation most soundly. The Confessions of St. Augustine |
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