| It is thus a Janus-faced entity, a paradoxical phenomenon that reflects the paradoxical nature of the human condition. |
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| Every day they confront a Janus-faced social discourse on female gender, which wedges them between two conflicting ideals of femininity. |
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| Now, the Janus-faced posturing of post-Grimond Liberalism is no longer adequate. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. |
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| Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why one of our biggest stars is such a Janus-faced mess of narcissism and self-loathing. |
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| These reveal a Janus-faced director, working firmly in a tradition of Victorian hagiography, but clearly searching for contemporary relevance. |
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| Containment needs better friends than the Janus-faced House of Saud. |
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| Indeed, the reform policies of Napoleon reflected the regime's Janus-faced character that combined subordination and exploitation, innovation and progress. |
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| 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. |
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| There's none of Cope's formal wit and play, Hill's ferocious originality, or Fanthorpe's Janus-faced monologues. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| He was the committee man selectively dealing out the Janus-faced news. |
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| There are many manifestations of this Janus-faced condition. |
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| While the structures of democracy, capitalism, and defense basically reflected the value system of WASP America, culture presented itself in a Janus-faced manner. |
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| We must have looked like some Janus-faced statue, our chins pointing east and west. |
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| Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE Janus-faced nature of atomic power has inspired much writing. |
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| The C-major Concerto is a Janus-faced work, looking both backwards to the Classical era and forward to the Romantic. |
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| That was part of Abbey's prickly charm, his Janus-faced appeal. |
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| The nuclei of atoms are built from Janus-faced particles called nucleons. |
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| Like the Liberals before them, they are Janus-faced. |
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| He was a lionhearted seaman, a rapacious plunderer, a masterly navigator, a Janus-faced schemer, a liberator of oppressed tribes, a delusional megalomaniac. |
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| In Bivious Theorems and Janus-faced Doctrines let Virtuous considerations state the determination. |
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| Anniversaries such as this are always Janus-faced. |
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| These selections all work to dispel any easy ideas about Tijuana as the sign of postmodern hybridity, seeing it rather as Janus-faced, prismatic, often fictional. |
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