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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
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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
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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.
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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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