Sentence examples for alien intrusion from inspiring English sources

To judge from endemic protests at even slightly outré productions, and incessant on-line and in-lobby grousings, too many Americans are convinced that opera should be just a sensuous bath in vocal timbre and the emotional urgency a great voice and great phrasing can convey; for them, theatrical meaning or vibrancy, let alone modern-day reinterpretation, is an alien intrusion.

And unlike obsessions, anxious and depressed thoughts are not usually regarded as alien intrusions.

The newspapers were full of suspicious retired colonels sounding off about alien intrusions.

They regard these looming problems the way people used to think about crime — as alien intrusions into their private tranquility.

His is a landscape in which such common points of reference as train trips and street directions come as alien intrusions into a life given over to mathematical wizardry and a desire to find out who killed the neighbor's dog in the "curious incident" of the title.

An alien invasion?

How did reactions to AIDS compare with other epidemics in history, which have always been associated with alien social intrusions: Jews with the Black Death, immigrants with influenza?

But it conformed to the image of Jacobs that, with her help, had become prevalent: that of an ordinary Greenwich Village mom, in sensible bangs and oversized glasses, out to protect the neighborhood from the destructive intrusions of alien big shots.

It has brought into biology an intrusion of aliens and concepts from physics, mathematics, engineering and computer science and a renewed interest in the role of quantitative reasoning and modeling, to which we now turn.

Or of the intrusion of anything alien?

I have a strong negative reaction to all the warp-speed jargon, the masturbatory fantasies about alien sex queens and the frequent intrusion of half-baked mathematical theories.