Sentence examples for altogether alien to from inspiring English sources

"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".

Maybe naturalism need not translate into scientism and it might not be altogether alien to the arts and the human sciences either.

It was totally alien to them".

"It was all alien to me.

"It was totally alien to me".

It's completely alien to many.

"It was completely alien to us.

Sometimes all it takes is one small shift -- one thing elongated, compressed, skewed or erased entirely -- to transform a familiar image into something 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.

Aging genever is not an altogether alien notion.

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