What's the difference between manichaean and manichean?
Manichaean
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Manichee
(a.) Alt. of Manichean
Example Sentences:
(1) With our politics increasingly polarised , it saddens me to see my students being initiated – deliberately or not – into an essentially Manichaean view of politics, with a checklist of “goodies” (leftists, trade unions, Corbyn) and “baddies” (Tories, Brexiteers, anyone who uses the phrase British values without irony).
(2) For men such as Emwazi, Isis – with its Manichaean vision of good and evil – meets a need.
(3) For a week or so, we have been back in the straightforward Manichaean world she demanded.
Manichean
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Manichee
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Manichaeans.
Example Sentences:
(1) For it at once confirms the jihadis' Manichean view that this is indeed a struggle between the west and them, while at the same time alienating those very Islamic moderates, whose help we need most in defeating Isis and its cohorts.
(2) These movies combine apparently forward-looking technological FX wizardry with a deeply conservative commitment to Manichean violence.
(3) It is still so Manichean in Spain,” says Preston.
(4) Bad: not what Donald Trump wants The president is evidently an adept of the Manichean philosophy, according to which the world is divided into the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
(5) In reality, Thatcher’s Manichean cold warrior certainties, shaped in her Grantham teens (while she was avoiding war-time military service, according to Charles Moore, her authorised biographer), saw little difference between Kinnock’s kind of democratic socialist and Kremlin heavies or [miners’ leader] Arthur Scargill’s revolutionary posturings.
(6) Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, the senator who has been consulting Muslim groups, has dropped Abbott’s Manichean rhetoric about “death cults”.
(7) Stone's 1995 Nixon biopic, starring Anthony Hopkins, could be taken as manichean flipside to JFK – the bad father undone at Watergate as the good father was slain in Dallas.
(8) Like Fox in its Bush-cheering heyday, the vast bulk of MSNBC's programming is devoted to one core message: American politics is understood as a Manichean battle between Good and Evil; the Republicans are the Evil, and the Obama-led Democrats are the Good.
(9) In this way, Blair found himself able to say, after sketching a Manichean picture of the world as divided between enlightened liberal democracy and Islamist theocracy: "This is what makes intervention so fraught but non intervention equally so."
(10) The situation in Syria is far more nuanced than the Manichean world view of good versus evil.
(11) It talks about hope but its casta narrative is very Manichean.
(12) There was no Manichean divide, but a subtler sense of our relationship to other sentient animals, the narrative we share.