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  • I hope the era of Obama is one where ideological heroism becomes passe and both conservatives and liberals can embrace double voicedness as a virtue!

    Zadie Smith on "Speaking in Tongues" Dan Ernst 2009

  • Most of the mouth-filling terms he coined – dialogism, double-voicedness, chronotope, heteroglossia, multi-accentuality – have passed into the lexicon of contemporary criticism.

    Speedlinking 6/29/07 William Harryman 2007

  • In the softest voice, but with a soft-voicedness that did not wholly conceal an iron thread of resolution, it declined to comply with that most modest demand.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • The largeness of Jean-Christophe's boots, the ugliness of his clothes, his ill-brushed hat, his provincial accent, his ridiculous way of bowing, the vulgarity of his loud-voicedness, nothing was forgotten which might sting Minna's vanity.

    Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

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