The phrase "alien to time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not affected by or does not conform to the passage of time, often in a philosophical or abstract context.
Example: "The ancient ruins stood there, alien to time, untouched by the centuries that had passed."
Alternatives: "timeless" or "outside of time".
And that is what creative destruction can do to a business that has changed only gradually the shops of today would not look alien to time-travellers from 50 years ago, even if their supply chains have changed beyond recognition.Could Kodak have avoided its current misfortunes?
STAYING in the game also means generating new products that may seem alien to traditional Times readers.
Built in 1959 by UFO-ologist George Van Tassel (from plans given to him by aliens!) to facilitate time travel, it's now used for "sound baths" and meditation.
He admits that it still feels alien to take so much time off, because he feels as if someone might be getting an edge on him.
There is the speech by Fosters Lancett on Ezra Pound, in the middle of which Lancett pulls out an electronic cigarette and begins to puff away; its little green light, at this time alien to the Piedmontese, makes some journalists present conjecture that he is smoking their local marijuana.
Now it's time for Alien to follow suit.
So I was forced to stay with a mother who was alien to me, dreaming all the time of my aunt.
His historical treatises, written in Hebrew, manifest his desire to familiarize his fellow Jews with the historical tradition of the Latin world, which at that time was alien to most of them.
Both of us were still crawling around on the floor in the early 1980s, more interested in TV cartoons than Militant – the divisive politics of the time are alien to us.
A focus on existence thus led, in both, to unique textual strategies quite alien to the philosophy of their time.
I have a confession to make — between dashing off paper after paper in college and blogging for years, the actual act of putting pen to paper and scrawling out words for any considerable period of time seems alien to me.
