Meanings of manichaean in English

It's perfectly timed to coincide with the manichaean politics of the Bush administration.

The Jew replied, with solemn air, I said the Manichaean's prayer.

The attraction of the Manichæan theory lay in its apparent explanation of the problem of evil.

Some of it does indeed appear Manichaean.

The Good Wife avoids this Manichaean trap.

It was exciting, this Manichaean city, this conjunction of evil and good, animal stupidity and godlike intellect.

She sipped at her gin, put the glass down, and said quietly, In a way, he's a Manichaean.

He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John's Gospel.

From Cyril of Jerusalem we learn that Samnaism was, more or less, Manichaean,-Manichaeanismbeing, more or less, Samanist.

He means to create a Manichaean scheme in domestic politics as severe and confrontational as the struggle with Soviet-Communism.

In other words, I feel that I must become an Atheist, a Pantheist, a Manichaean, or-what I am-asceptic.

Gibson has a Manichaean view of the world…He believes in the Devil as fully as he believes in God.

Is not the appearance of a solitary Manichaean in the twenty-first century either a wildly meaningless anachronism-ora grave sign?

In the West, the first teachers of the Manichæan theology had been repulsed by the people, or suppressed by the prince.

Of the matter, however, there was no comparison; for the one was wandering amid Manichaean delusions, the other teaching salvation most soundly.

No Grecian system of philosophy, except Platonism, entered into the Christian system so influentially as the disastrous Manichaean heresy, which Augustine combated.