Sentence examples for a certain estrangement from from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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".

"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.

I kept a certain distance from him.

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

But with Mrs. Phillips's growing renown came a growing estrangement from her twin, as Dear Abby and Ann Landers battled each other in syndication.

Or maybe she is trying to erase the whole Times Magazine experience, which ended in a barrage of nasty online comments and a final estrangement from Joseph.

In Gingrich's withering sneer and Edwards's shampoo-commercial smile, there was a seeming estrangement from any and all doubt.

After a "deepening estrangement from the White House," he left the Commerce job in 1973, before the Watergate scandal upended the administration.

While he attempts to redeem his father's political fall by avoiding his mistakes, his effort at reversal is creating a similar estrangement from the voters.