Sentence examples for a certain estrangement from inspiring English sources

There was a certain estrangement between Graham and Simon & Schuster as his sales declined, but this didn't adversely affect our friendship.

Yet Monica, the family paragon, herself emerges as a complicated, conflicted figure, whose talent and ambition have won her entrée into the Ivy League at the cost of a certain estrangement from her own family and culture.

In his last published interview, with Quincy Troupe, conducted as he was dying of cancer in the house in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Baldwin spoke of having tried to avoid a certain "estrangement between myself and my generation".

The walls have already begun to close on Robert; his wife Gertrude has learned of the crime and the two face almost certain estrangement.

Literary fiction of that ilk – insular, socially and psychologically hermetic, neurotically backslapping and self-congratulatory about a certain milieu, disaggregated from any estrangement or rubbing of aesthetics against the grain – is in poor shape".

"There is a certain melancholy to many of these images, particularly the portraits of children, that speaks of exile and estrangement," says Mussai.

"I do sense an inner sadness, I don't think he wants to be in the position he is in – he feels an estrangement from certain aspects of his roots, certain parts of the international art world.

A provoked Gandhi finally revealed a sense of estrangement from the British Raj and announced a satyagraha struggle.

It is a term of aversion, a gesture of estrangement.

But it was a mutual estrangement between them, too.

After a natural estrangement he and Curchod became lifelong friends.