Sentence examples for That's alien from inspiring English sources

Here's more history he forgets: most of the politicians who've gone all the way had not just his ambition but also a geniality that's alien to him and a degree of affection from peers that, by week's end, he can say a permanent goodbye to.

"It shouldn't be something that's alien".

It's a word that's alien to pretty much anyone outside Scotland.

But the severe back arch demands a suppleness that's alien to the aging body, which is why pretty much no one over 65 does it.

The one I know best maintains that "Mad Men" presents a world that's alien enough to be interesting as anthropology — not as remote as, say, a thirties screwball comedy, but headed in that direction — and yet not entirely so.

I usually find an examination of the local newspaper to be quite reliable in providing evidence of a vastly different set of values, of interests, and, particularly, a way of doing things that's alien to our own tastes and mores.

That is a subordinate relationship that is alien to America's basic values, which represent freedom and egalitarianism.

Chelsea now could afford to do something that is alien to Villas-Boas's avowed intent to make this a more fluid, attacking Chelsea.

Much of Europe's old art has religious themes that are alien to Chinese culture.

Problems that are alien to the party, of course.

This is a mindset that is alien to us".