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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

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Määritelmät

Adjektiivit

  1. Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.
  2. Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.
  3. (figurative) Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.

Esimerkit

  • The pseudo-community of enemies in The Day the Earth Stood Still consists of politicians, the military, and businessmen, whereas the pseudo-community of friends, the element that complements the enemies and reinforces the black-and-white morality of paranoia (Cameron, "Revisited" 56), is composed of scientists, women, and children.
  • Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand.
  • “It's complicated. Not everything is black-and-white, Ginny. Sometimes, it's just gray.” The disillusionment in Ginny's eyes hurt bone-deep. She was a black-and-white kind of person. Actions were either right or wrong. No room for in-betweens.
  • You could say that inflexible thinking is black-and-white thinking and flexible thinking is rainbow thinking. Black-and-white thinkers have difficulty being flexible in their mind and seeing different possibilities and perspectives.

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