Sentence examples for double self from inspiring English sources

A sense of the double self, and the difficulties of reconciling opposing forces, pervades the evening.

"Double Self" (1978) is a pair of nearly identical, life-size, full-figure portraits of the artist.

And in showing us the darkness of the double self the Gothic, for all its horror and terror, tells us the truth: we are all Cain and Abel: "the whole seed of Adam, not divided/ But fearfully joined in the darkness of the double self".

Only in her final chapter, after witty essays on the author's double self, the novel's clashing connections with art, commerce and religion, and the writer-reader tango, does she argue that fiction is an exacting journey into the underworld.

The sensual courting of the forbidden and its attendant guilt; a paranoiac hunger for revenge; the double self locked in eternal combative dialogue; the concurrent fear of, and desire for, death -- these elements of Poe's work are all part of the mise en scène, if you know to look for them.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

It includes a hologram double self-portrait that flashes between young and old pictures of Boltanski.

A result is an extremely diverse collection unified by a singular sensibility, a kind of psychological double self-portrait.

A suave fraternal double self-portrait by Hippolyte and Paul Flandrin is more affecting than anything either artist ever did on his own.

This includes Nickolas Muray's 1939 photographs of Frida Kahlo at PDNB — including one of Kahlo posing with a paintbrush and palette before a double self-portrait — and Constantin Brancusi's amazing photographs of his own sculptures at Silverstein.

Marking the separation in the shows' shared announcement, Mapplethorpe created a double self-portrait, one showing the artist's hand wearing a dress shirt and Cartier watch, the other hand wearing a black leather glove and studded metal bracelet, both writing the word "pictures" – driving home the notion that respectability and perversion are often two sides of the same coin.