Ibn Ezra's poetry in particular gives very powerful expression to the themes of the soul's alienation and longing to return to its heavenly abode.
The sense of alienation and disconnect on return may be compounded among African American soldiers, who risk their lives for their country only to come home to a drumbeat of news about African Americans killed by police.
After the vampires come aliens, alienation and elimination games.
There he notes how much Western philosophy owes to its Christian heritage, which philosophers assimilated by developing ideas of "responsibility, autonomy and justification; history and remembering; new beginning, innovation, and return; alienation, internalization, and incarnation; individuality and community" (2006b, 44; trans. amended).
" 'We need to take a real hard look.' " The principal, the grieving mother of one of the suicide victims, a local newspaper and a recent graduate of the school who had herself experienced this sense of alienation — and has now returned to help others — all played significant roles in efforts to gain some control of the situation.
Ultimately, Angelopoulos's themes are the great themes of exile and return, and the equivalent interior, spiritual sense of alienation and longing for peace.
Yet if a more thoughtful athlete had taken the trip, and returned with insights into the country's international alienation and mass poverty, how many people watching on TV might ask themselves, Who does this jock think he is?
The worst thing that could happen is that this group starts to feel alienation and people decide not to come in the future or decide to return to India or other countries of origin.
Tao Lin has just returned to New York City from a tour promoting his new book, Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change.
The fruits of his return, which he calls "Pikroglykimalon," or "Bittersweetapple," are both affectionate and aloof, reflecting what he calls "my alienation and eagerness to discover some sort of tranquility in a place that once felt so foreign to me".
The first promotes alienation and bruised egos.
