Sentence examples for before dialectic from inspiring English sources
Character needed to be developed before dialectic was taught.
Entries did not have to be long to be obscure, as attested by the 1997 third-place winner, from "Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory," by Fred Botting: "The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains".
The colors were chosen years before by the Dialectic (blue) and Philanthropic (white) Societies, the oldest student organization at the university.
Hegel called this evolution "the dialectical process" (see dialectic).
Still, it places Shen Dao in the dialectic just before Laozi, who directly precedes Zhuangzi.
The humanist dialectic of the Renaissance shared many assumptions concerning the dialectical syllogism with the scholastics, but some authors developed a different understanding of dialectic.
And though they may well require a little more enlightenment before all is said and done, their experience suggests that the dialectic of light and dark is ill-equipped to capture modernity's shades of gray.
In the latest stage of this grisly dialectic, Islamic State dresses its hostages in Guantánamo's orange suits before beheading them.
The name comes from a dialectic word for snail shells, which were used for the game before the horse chestnut came on the public scene in the early 19th century.
The dialectic hasn't ended.
