Sentence examples for altogether alien from inspiring English sources

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Aging genever is not an altogether alien notion.

Dr. Kass portrayed immortality as a state altogether alien from that of being human.

Yet for anyone who saw The Libertines the first time around – a simultaneously thrilling, ramshackle and unpleasantly off-the-rails experience – this performance might have seemed altogether alien.

But this shouldn't strike you as an altogether alien experience: while we adults possess the additional critical capacity of being able to consciously reason about morality, we're not otherwise that different from babies — our moral feelings are often instinctive.

He leaned the board against the coatrack, directly over his father's barn boots, and regarded his work as it was, totem and trophy, altogether alien against a backdrop of lilac-patterned wallpaper.

"All the adjectives Burke applies to the 'great' -- vast, rugged, negligent, dark, gloomy, solid, massive -- suit its first three movements to perfection, even as the adjectives applied to 'beauty' -- small, smooth, polished, light, delicate -- seem altogether alien to it".

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Rangers then, with debts of around £22m, is not an altogether-alien venture for him.

Humanoid or totally alien?

Here's four ideas for discussion: 1) Ditch the term "North" altogether An alien landing in Britain would observe those four cities to be slap bang in the middle of the island on which we live.

Jeffery Overstreet of Looking Closer commented "It's time they quit killing the aliens, and just killed the Alien series altogether.... How the mighty have fallen".

Gory Biblical myths were discarded in favour of slick sci-fi stargazing, and by the following year's scorched, metallic Trompe le Monde, Francis had been abducted into the alien's perspective altogether.

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