Sentence examples for alien things from inspiring English sources

Weird, alien things, like splinters.

He recently devoted 10 studious days to the boxed set of Breaking Bad, yet he sometimes randomly channel surfs, enjoying "the surreal linkage of alien things in the montage".

With scuba diving, it doesn't matter how intelligent or athletic you are, everyone is overcoming a fear of going underwater, which – like flying – is one of the most alien things a human being can do.

I wasn't trying to be dirty, or "cool", you simply get into the habit of not choosing what to wear – that was the first time I was really hit by how alien things were, on both sides.

He has tried to understand, among other alien things, England and English factory life, in "British Sounds," of 1969 (also called "See You at Mao"), with its famous ten-minute tracking shot down an assembly line under the voice of a little girl reciting her Marxist catechism.

His narratives revolve around a handful of staple situations: Muslims doing alien things; bored, well-heeled tourists whose Western mores (particularly marriage) dissolve in the weltering heat of Latin America and North Africa; European rentiers living in a condition of dependence on, and mysterious subservience to, their native servants.

The actual fact of filmmaking is an alien thing to them..

It is an alien thing that threatens all we hold most dear.

"I suppose I must have that alien thing in me to start with.

The actual fact of filmmaking is an alien thing to them...

As I've explained before, the alien thing was a modern riff on Keynes's coalmine thought experiment.