ADJECTIVE
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having or concerned with polarities or contrasts
a Janus-faced view of history
a Janus-faced policy -
marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
a double-dealing double agent
a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer
she was a deceitful scheming little thing -
having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past
Janus the two-faced god
How To Use Janus-faced In A Sentence
- It is an especially acute problem when we consider party elites, since they are Janus-faced.
- Janus-faced nature of Romanticism's engagement with secularism and cosmopolitanism. About This Volume
- But what we see on stage is curiously Janus-faced. Cool Hand Luke – review
- The emotion is Janus-faced : we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
- In turn, this history illuminates the Janus-faced nature of nationalism, remarkable in its fluidity and ability to accommodate a wide spectrum of political agendas, from the radically democratic to the most conservative and insular. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
- a Janus-faced view of history
- That Pakistan has been Janus-faced in its approach to fighting terrorism is hardly news. Pakistan as Terror Sanctuary
- Democrats have always had a much more Janus-faced posture with respect to the winner-take-all economy. Winner-Take-All Politics
- IN bivious theorems, [138] and Janus-faced doctrines, let virtuous considerations state the determination. Christian Morals
- a Janus-faced policy
