How to Use dialectic in a Sentence

dialectic

noun

• How strange to see this very dialectic embraced by the far right.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Sep. 2017
• The students would soon be caught up in the thrust and parry of dialectic.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• Yet in our own country, and our own time, that simple dialectic doesn’t sound so far off.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• This contrast, or dialectic, is the focus of one section of the show.
  — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2020
• The dialectic of that control into that chaos moment.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
• But the two artists’ relationships to the good girl-bad girl dialectic are not so different.
  — Diane Pecknold, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2017
• But this is more than just an inside-baseball story of disciplinary dialectics.
  — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
• And in a way, the entire dialectic unfairly reduces the tournament, their teams and both men.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 June 2018
• This dialectic was part of a flourishing realm of glorious language.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
• Horkheimer, amid the wreckage of world war, lost faith in progress; his dialectic negated one construct after another.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Messing with that dialectic is the peak of technological hubris.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2021
• The screenplay explores—or in any case devotes some talk to—the dialectic of altruism and selfishness.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• The policing took place through Greenberg’s insistence on his own eye as the only arbiter of the dialectic.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Theirs is a dazzling dialectic — a sort of Talmudic argument as snarled by junkyard dogs.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
• And the battle, the struggle, the dialectic of history is whether our better angels can prevail over our worst instincts.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 July 2024
• The main living area, clearly designed for a large family, also toys with that opulent-yet-cozy dialectic.
  — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
• There’s a dialectic between these two very smart collaborators.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
• Schools exist to stifle freedom, and also to inculcate it, a dialectic that is the essence of true education.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Both Trotsky and Paul get absorbed in quarrelsome dialectics and in point-scoring built around minute differences.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Ultimately, the series gives too much gravity to the writer-subject dialectic.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
• Hegel redefined the dialectic as a process of assertion, negation, and synthesis that gathers force through history.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• The two scores that Lewis presented at the Armory embodied a dialectic of complexity and play.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• This leads to a rural dialectic, where rural professionals hold the seemingly opposing views that rural work is, and is not, of high quality.
  — Timothy Baker, Quartz at Work, 27 Nov. 2019
• This exhibition explores the dialectic between being dandified and taking on dandyism as a means of self-fashioning.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024
• Elements of the culture drove him toward those actions, yet as is always the case in the dialectic of character and circumstance, Lincoln transformed the times.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Each Prelude is a study in dialectics with seemingly irreconcilable ideas made to share a claustrophobically small space.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Marx, in turn, cast the dialectic in economic terms, establishing the emancipation of the proletariat as history’s goal.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• The dialectic of regret is key to Grade’s creative brilliance as well as his appeal to Orthodox readers, unusual for a secular writer.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• One world is defined by frustrating legality; the other is somehow more primal and more logical, dominated by the easy-to-grasp dialectic of money and violence.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 June 2020
• In our deeply bifurcated world, Forché’s best writing engages in a kind of dialectic, one in which the truth of experience burns as brightly as the author’s intuition and imagination.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020