The phrase "alienated man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an individual who feels isolated or estranged from society or a particular group.
Example: "In his novel, the author explores the struggles of the alienated man in a rapidly changing world."
Alternatives: "isolated individual" or "estranged person".
Scorsese's protagonist, brilliantly played by Robert De Niro, is the archetypal alienated man - almost a figure out of Dostoevsky.
For the Nietzsche setting that represents alienated man, Maazel chooses Dolora Zajick, better known as a player of Verdi.
Unlike the usual glamorous spies of fiction, Leamas is a lonely and alienated man, without a respectable career or a place in society.
Give it to a talented debut novelist with a taste for French existentialism, particularly "The Stranger" — Albert Camus's classic 1942 novel of an alienated man named Meursault who commits murder shortly after his mother's death — and you've got Alexander Maksik's "You Deserve Nothing".
Had his murders been openly and avowedly carried out in order to bring attention to some Islamist gripe, his manifesto would not have been dismissed as ravings, but closely analyzed as the thoughts of an alienated man driven to extremes by a heartfelt sense of injustice.
It's potent stuff, delving into pornography, incest, murder and mutilation in the company of alienated men and unhappy, sometimes cruel women.
"Being Flynn" is a much milder movie than "Taxi Driver," pursuing intimate themes rather than big ideas, but Jonathan Flynn and Travis Bickle are linked by the discrepancy between self-image and reality and also by Mr. De Niro's gift for portraying alienated men at odds with themselves.
Ironically, it works to convince alienated men that sex/gender has marked them as unique sort of outsider/failures, who cannot be accepted even into the multicultural coalitions that define themselves by their capacity for acceptance.
Because Roof had refused to have his mental-health history discussed, Bruck was left to portray him as an alienated young man, not fully capable of distinguishing between the real world and the hyperbolic paranoid clamor that he found on the Internet.
In the Tony-winning musical "Contact," an alienated advertising man renews his life by dancing with a stranger in a yellow dress.
(Fox; Blu-ray 3-D/Blu-ray/DVD Blu-ray/DVD Blu-ray/DVDDVD combo, $39.99; DVD $29.98; PG) FOLLOWING An alienated young man who tracks strangers through the streets of London links up with a burglar who likes invading the private lives of his victims in this first feature film (1998) directed by Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight Rises"), here getting the deluxe Criterion treatment.
