His work, Mr. Soyinka said, reflects the divided nature of an essentially private man who has nonetheless chosen a boldly public life.

I looked at him a moment longer, taking in the wet eyes and the set jaw, his divided nature written on his face.

This clash of old and new in their respective standards reiterates the divided nature of the painting.

I still felt in my chest the little hammer heart of that starving child; I still burned with the questions of my own divided nature.

To the book's benefit, the appealing side of Macdonald outweighs one's puzzlement over his divided nature.

The clerics' uncertainty illustrates the divided nature of the population here.

Gawen had tried to run away, and found he could not evade his own divided nature.

The human soul in the works of Plato and Aristotle has a divided nature, divided in a specifically human way.

Eugene, his alter ego, openly recognizes a divided nature, one part of himself being "nice, likable," the other "angry, mean."

The business of making her face herself and her divided nature.