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Definition of Janus-faced in English: Janus-facedadjective 1Having two sharply contrasting aspects or characteristics. 有两个面孔的；搞两面派的；有两个截然不同的方面的 the Janus-faced nature of American society 美国社会的两面性。 Example sentencesExamples - Various objects explore this confluence, a Janus-faced culture that is highlighted in portraits of Mehmed by the Venetian Gentile Bellini from 1480 and the Ottoman painter Sinan Bey.
- The Janus-faced grief we witness in this writing, then, and its despair-in-advance of deploying familiar consolations, is an inspiring precedent for negotiating "double sorrow" even now.
- Sade is Beauvoir's Janus-faced ally.
- Steward comes to function as a representative of Ruby's politically rational self-narrative, while Deacon continues to represent the ambivalent, Janus-faced boundary between the nation's inside and outside.
- BAGHDAD - The Iraqi national psyche is a Janus-faced beast when it comes to belief.
- These reveal a Janus-faced director, working firmly in a tradition of Victorian hagiography, but clearly searching for contemporary relevance.
- Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why one of our biggest stars is such a Janus-faced mess of narcissism and self-loathing.
- This Janus-faced image of the Columbia represents both a vexing conundrum for Pacific Northwesterners and a battleground over what the river means to the human community.
- And I suggest that citizenship education needs to start by confronting the Janus-faced nature of people's anger, and making the most of it.
- I would like to propose a term for the texts that voice this Janus-faced perspective on grief and for the wider cultural syndrome of which they were a part.
- It is more or less reduced to Janus-faced etiquettes of the moral and grotesque body, placed by the author, as it seems, where most suitable.
- A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part.
- Indeed, the reform policies of Napoleon reflected the regime's Janus-faced character that combined subordination and exploitation, innovation and progress.
- This demonstrates the Janus-faced quality of tradition: In the culture that produced the tradition, it is old, while in the culture that adopts it, it is brand-new.
- Most of his summer vacations, spent in St Florian and, latterly, in Steyr, were devoted to intensive work on his symphonies, beginning with the Janus-faced Symphony no.
- It is thus a Janus-faced entity, a paradoxical phenomenon that reflects the paradoxical nature of the human condition.
- Every day they confront a Janus-faced social discourse on female gender, which wedges them between two conflicting ideals of femininity.
- In this sense, grammar is part of a Janus-faced psychological and neurological process: each person learns and uses a private system which blends into a social consensus.
- Stone-throwing Palestinians in Nike trainers are today's version of the same Janus-faced phenomenon.
- It was a Janus-faced county, a place where people were "cultivated," a place of "wealthy families, educational and religious interests, and general enterprise."
- 1.1 Insincere or deceitful.
两面三刀的，虚伪的；骗人的 一名虚伪的政客。 Example sentencesExamples - Now, the Janus-faced posturing of post-Grimond Liberalism is no longer adequate.
- He was the committee man selectively dealing out the Janus-faced news.
- There are many manifestations of this Janus-faced condition.
- While the structures of democracy, capitalism, and defense basically reflected the value system of WASP America, culture presented itself in a Janus-faced manner.
- Enter the Janus-faced alternative: the Liberal Conservative Socialist Democrats, the chameleon party equipped to satisfy simultaneously the aspirations of Colonel Blimp and Dave Spart.
- Containment needs better friends than the Janus-faced House of Saud.
Synonyms false, fake, hollow, artificial, feigned, pretended, put-on, exaggerated, overdone, lacking sincerity, not candid, not frank
OriginLate 17th century: referring to the Roman deity Janus. Definition of Janus-faced in US English: Janus-facedadjective 1Having two sharply contrasting aspects or characteristics. 有两个面孔的；搞两面派的；有两个截然不同的方面的 the Janus-faced nature of American society 美国社会的两面性。 Example sentencesExamples - A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part.
- Various objects explore this confluence, a Janus-faced culture that is highlighted in portraits of Mehmed by the Venetian Gentile Bellini from 1480 and the Ottoman painter Sinan Bey.
- It is more or less reduced to Janus-faced etiquettes of the moral and grotesque body, placed by the author, as it seems, where most suitable.
- It is thus a Janus-faced entity, a paradoxical phenomenon that reflects the paradoxical nature of the human condition.
- These reveal a Janus-faced director, working firmly in a tradition of Victorian hagiography, but clearly searching for contemporary relevance.
- This demonstrates the Janus-faced quality of tradition: In the culture that produced the tradition, it is old, while in the culture that adopts it, it is brand-new.
- Stone-throwing Palestinians in Nike trainers are today's version of the same Janus-faced phenomenon.
- Sade is Beauvoir's Janus-faced ally.
- Indeed, the reform policies of Napoleon reflected the regime's Janus-faced character that combined subordination and exploitation, innovation and progress.
- The Janus-faced grief we witness in this writing, then, and its despair-in-advance of deploying familiar consolations, is an inspiring precedent for negotiating "double sorrow" even now.
- It was a Janus-faced county, a place where people were "cultivated," a place of "wealthy families, educational and religious interests, and general enterprise."
- Steward comes to function as a representative of Ruby's politically rational self-narrative, while Deacon continues to represent the ambivalent, Janus-faced boundary between the nation's inside and outside.
- BAGHDAD - The Iraqi national psyche is a Janus-faced beast when it comes to belief.
- Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why one of our biggest stars is such a Janus-faced mess of narcissism and self-loathing.
- In this sense, grammar is part of a Janus-faced psychological and neurological process: each person learns and uses a private system which blends into a social consensus.
- Most of his summer vacations, spent in St Florian and, latterly, in Steyr, were devoted to intensive work on his symphonies, beginning with the Janus-faced Symphony no.
- And I suggest that citizenship education needs to start by confronting the Janus-faced nature of people's anger, and making the most of it.
- This Janus-faced image of the Columbia represents both a vexing conundrum for Pacific Northwesterners and a battleground over what the river means to the human community.
- I would like to propose a term for the texts that voice this Janus-faced perspective on grief and for the wider cultural syndrome of which they were a part.
- Every day they confront a Janus-faced social discourse on female gender, which wedges them between two conflicting ideals of femininity.
- 1.1 Insincere or deceitful.
两面三刀的，虚伪的；骗人的 一名虚伪的政客。 Example sentencesExamples - While the structures of democracy, capitalism, and defense basically reflected the value system of WASP America, culture presented itself in a Janus-faced manner.
- Now, the Janus-faced posturing of post-Grimond Liberalism is no longer adequate.
- He was the committee man selectively dealing out the Janus-faced news.
- Containment needs better friends than the Janus-faced House of Saud.
- Enter the Janus-faced alternative: the Liberal Conservative Socialist Democrats, the chameleon party equipped to satisfy simultaneously the aspirations of Colonel Blimp and Dave Spart.
- There are many manifestations of this Janus-faced condition.
Synonyms false, fake, hollow, artificial, feigned, pretended, put-on, exaggerated, overdone, lacking sincerity, not candid, not frank
OriginLate 17th century: referring to the Roman deity Janus. |