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That stark contrast, which the social critic Mike Davis has called the sunshine/noir dialectic, has been a wellspring of material for this city's writers.

Accordingly, in the history of the Christian church a specific, characteristic dialectic has been evidenced between periods of excessive growth and formalistic hardening of tradition that hindered and smothered the charismatic life of the church and periods of a reduction of tradition that follow new reformational movements.

The upshot of his enquiries is that belief in the Trinity is rationally justifiable since as far as reason can take us we find that the doctrine makes sense at least, once the tools of dialectic have been properly employed.

One could argue that these dialectics have been politically impotent for a half-century, and that Tiffany notwithstanding they continue to be -- whatever their intelligences, awarenesses, and veracities.

Only that the civil disobedience we've seen in front of these state houses is yet another manifestation of the central fault line in American politics -- the big government/small government dialectic, which has been the focus of our national debate for a half century at least.

Assume as a suppressed premise that the inverted spectrum scenario just described is possible, and suppose that Invert and Nonvert are both looking at a ripe tomato in good light: Some of the dialectic surrounding P1 has been described.

The result is an imagined coterie of poets and an attendant poetics that is implicitly encoded within and critiqued pursuant to the same neo-Marxist poststructuralist dialectics the academy has been wrestling with for decades.

This reflexivity stands in a dialectic relation to what has been referred to as recursiveness: the principle that structure is at once a means and a result of action [22].

For much of the modern era there has been a dialectic between two concepts of disease.

The House product actually allowed a far more generous capital asset test than the Conference report does--the report is therefore a true melding of House and Senate approaches to this issue, and one which has been in legislative dialectic since the Obama Administration.

Along with some truly wonderful stories by those of you who have experienced some form of ecstatic sex there has been a fascinating dialectic between opposite opinions and I welcome them all.