How to Use dialectical in a Sentence

dialectical

adjective

• Though the creator was surprised to hear Dunster’s dialectical take on the role.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
• Sadly, this is not a moment for nuanced dialectical dramas — and certainly not for ones with such a huge cast.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• The erotic scenes are dialectical as well as hot; the meetings have a wanton, feverish energy.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The upshot of the film is a little murky, which is the risk of such a diffuse, dialectical approach, and certain details could be clearer.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Liberalism has evolved in a dialectical fashion as people’s concerns have changed.
  — Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• But Morgan’s never been one to let dialectical coherence get in the way of his sanctimony.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2016
• For example, one of my zines is about dialectical behavioral therapy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The dialectical intelligence that shines in his plays is evident in the way his every utterance is subject to second thoughts.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Some cultures are better than others at dialectical thinking—and my wife is right that Americans tend to be especially weak at it.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
• Since Socrates, dialectical thinking had been a method of eliciting truth through questioning and refutation.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• There’s an appreciably dialectical sense of purpose to this framing that goes beyond the usual cat-and-mouse genre formulations.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• But a novel requires a dialectical thinking and a dialectic reasoning.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
• Fans are often aware of the tensions their dialectical status as (anti)capitalists creates between themselves and media producers.
  — Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• An appreciation of the theater as a dialectical art form that puts perspectives into collision.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
• For a French director such as Rohmer, a woman’s knee was the crux of an elegantly dialectical erotic comedy.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2021
• Not without a cost Therapists trained in dialectical behavior therapy can be expensive and hard to find, and are often booked solid.
  — Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• In general, the dialectical view is specific to all the emergent constructivist approaches.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 May 2026
• Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• The romance that surges through the story is his principal tool of historical analysis, setting facts and feelings into a dialectical dance that doesn’t conclude when the story ends.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2020
• For the supremely dialectical artist, who liked to think in powers of two, who leaped from the second to the third to the fourth dimension and beyond—for someone like Bettina—of course there would be a sequel.
  — Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
• Tales have grown to occupy a rigorously intellectual and dialectical strata in the medium.
  — Eliza Harper Wallace, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
• This dialectical mission is responsible for the spiraling self-consciousness that is the most distinctive (and, to some readers, the most annoying) aspect of his writing.
  — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The movie is strangely, unusually dialectical within itself—composed of many layers that don’t coalesce or connect but reflect off one another and generate tension.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
• Much of history before the modern era has consisted of an almost dialectical synthesis between the steppe periphery and the agricultural lands beyond the limes of civilization.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2013
• This might be cause for some disappointment, since Peele’s keen dialectical perspective on our collective American pathologies has been a bright spot in an era of franchised corporate wish fulfillment.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Like the aesthetic advances that preceded it, the Zoomification of movies will be the product of what has always been a dialectical relationship between technology and creators.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• Del Noce indicts the sweeping changes of secularism, eroticism, and relativism as the inevitable outcomes of Marx’s dialectical victory over religious and liberal foes.
  — Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Urbano’s work evokes a complex past that hasn’t yet occurred and a future that already has—a present that has always already been, to employ the idea of non-dialectical temporality favored by philosopher Maurice Blanchot.
  — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
• The clinic provides dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, a form of talk therapy that aids in emotional regulation, for local youth and their families.
  — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
• Trained as a lawyer (and the son of a prominent Austrian prosecutor), Preminger established a dialectical method for filming scenes of conflict, holding opponents in tense and unstable balance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 May 2020