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Examples
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The dicotomy is tough to get used to, but the characters are finally starting to grow on me.
Friday Ramblings icanreadyourmnd 2002
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I always wondered where Faulkner fit in his Hemingway/Fitzgerald dicotomy.
Jay McInerney, wealth porn, and the WSJ wine column | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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What are the policy differences between the two candidates that that lead to this dicotomy?
Clinton has big lead in Kentucky, Obama on top in Oregon 2008
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How creativity is about those too things - I know I rabbit about this alot but this particular false dicotomy is bad news for everyone leading to loathing when open discussion should be being broach.
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Regarding DRM vs no-DRM in particular, it seems like there's a false dicotomy being drawn.
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I know that my favorite symbol of all time (link for that coming up, too, but in the mean time, keep an eye on my sewing site) also has this unfair dicotomy implicit in it: men are the active principle (yang) and women the passive (yin).
Purity Balls have Nothing to do with Balls. | Mind on Fire 2007
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Once again, on an issue that has never before arisen we get the usual dicotomy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Worn Circuit Boards as Art — in Airports: 2007
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This dicotomy proves that the struggle in politics is not so much Republican vs Democrats but left vs. right.
The Latest Right Wing Echo Chamber Bash on Hil and Bill 2006
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It's a dicotomy you share with millions - and so eloquently described - makes me wish even more that I had more of an opportunity to do it myself.
Torn 2006
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And then he sets up a false dicotomy, choosing between God and man?
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