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.
But it was a mutual estrangement between them, too.
He thereby perpetuates a needless estrangement between two natural allies.
This uprising is part of a growing estrangement between Germany's politicians and its people.Opposition to big projects is a fact of German life.
Likewise, the persistence of rape, unequal pay and insecure men is hardly evidence of a "growing" estrangement between the sexes -- "continuing," rather.
Past an initial welcome home that finds Lady M. jumping wildly into her hubby's loving arms and receiving an affectionate pat on the derrière, a growing estrangement between this murderous couple leaves little room for cuddling.
The administration's Iraq policies will be a liability to most candidates, leading to a significant estrangement between the White House and Republican caucus.
There was never a formal estrangement between Burley and the nation, but the controversies of his reign accumulated as a body of evidence against his suitability for the role.
In the early 20th century, historian James Truslow Adams wrote that the incident initiated a lifelong estrangement between Hancock and Washington, but some subsequent historians have expressed doubt that the incident, or the estrangement, ever occurred.
