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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alien thoughts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe thoughts that are foreign, strange, or not typical to a person's usual thinking patterns.
Example: "After the encounter, he was left with alien thoughts that he couldn't quite comprehend."
Alternatives: "foreign thoughts" or "strange ideas".
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Like a character from an old Star Trek episode, I need to concentrate to overcome the alien thoughts that are controlling my mind.
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Under the 1952 law, an alien thought likely to engage in terrorist, anarchist or subversive activities is considered "excludable". It permits the barring of visitors on the basis of advocacy as well as action.
Arthur Schlesinger, present at the meeting, noted how "the question hovered for a moment, then died away". It was "a hopelessly alien thought in a field of unexplored assumptions and entrenched convictions". The Washington rules kept the United States on a steady course toward disaster.
Incrementalism is an alien thought.
Of course, she blamed his parents, who had somehow, long ago, accidentally or on purpose, raised him as a space alien, with space-alien values, space-alien thoughts, and the hollow, shifty character, concocted guilelessness, and sociopathic secrets of a space alien.
Whitmore then mentions that while he was being attacked, he saw the alien's thoughts; what its species were planning to do.
Rather, Natorp claims to find in the first Critique itself the basis for his view that intuition is not a factor "alien to thought [denkfremd]," but that it merely signifies a different aspect of thinking, viz.
In their various alien environments, their thoughts turned with deep veneration to their ancient authors, whom they considered the champions of their national independence.
Soon I realised my alien feelings and thoughts only came late at night, and I soon came to notice that they correlated themselves with the phases of our lifeless moon.
I'm not a compulsive hand-washer, I don't think there are aliens hearing our thoughts, and I don't think anyone is coming to kill me.
The idea that the way to world peace is through unprovoked wars is alien to the thought and practice of Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy, all of whom Gerson claims as inspirations for George W. Bush.
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