Alienation Coefficients [28]: In this algorithm, alienation technique is applied to two half successive cycles with the same polarity.
"Alienation," probably, yet that is a word forever applied to the films, not spoken within them.
The band applied its exalted melodies to songs of foreboding and alienation, as Thom Yorke sang about depersonalization and surveillance, and about facing creeps or being one, in the scarred, fragile voice of an abused choirboy.
Rather than alienation and hostility to another time and a different culture, philology as applied to Weltliteratur involved a profound humanistic spirit deployed with generosity and, if I may use the word, hospitality.
Thoroughly trained in literature and philosophy, Sontag applied the standards of the past — truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality — to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perversity.
The police have applied their kneejerk response, deploying their historically failed power of "stop and search", without the need for "reasonable suspicion", which is more likely to lead to alienation than arrest, probably at best temporarily burying the problem underground.
It's an astute observation — the kind of simple and clearsighted remark that distinguishes Acocella's criticism — and it applies to almost every artist, conscious or not of an alienation assuaged only by the consuming effort art demands.
Applying elements of self-determination theory, external and introjected control loci (both strongly associated with alienation, disengagement and poor learning outcomes) were identified as common motivational determinants in this cohort.
But even if the final amendment applies to Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants, many critics say that it will add to the sense of alienation from the state felt by many Arab citizens, who make up 20 percent of Israel's population.
