Sentence examples for an alienation from from inspiring English sources

What she has in common with Hank is an alienation from her finer emotions.

In the U.S. today there is an alienation from the central govt. that is new in our experience.

One thing this very tolerant man decried in the Western drive for facile satisfaction was an alienation from the outdoors.

The New Yorker, July 18, 1970 P. 72 In the U.S. today there is an alienation from the central govt. that is new in our experience.

Girls experiencing FGM in places such as the UK may, like their African counterparts, withdraw from school, especially as they reach puberty, resulting in an alienation from mainstream society.

His plight, after all, is - for people of his age and background - a familiar one: an alienation from his own experience brought about by too much knowledge, too many easy, inconsequential choices, too much self-consciousness.

In "Monster" Charlize Theron, made cosmetically unrecognizable to play the Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos, gazes at the world with dead, resentful eyes that distill an alienation born from a lifetime of rejection and abuse.

The project of science — the aim of knowing and naming the natural world — can, in this way, lead to a strange inversion of intimacy, to an unnatural alienation from ourselves.

The evidence and reports about Mr. Loughner's unusual conduct suggest an increasing alienation from society, confusion, anger as well as foreboding that his life could soon come to an end.

Well-intentioned, anxious to please, full of self-doubt, Gabriel is the archetype of the grown up literary male, whose uneasy self-regard masks an increasing alienation from most of what made him.

The show finds ways of dramatizing every feeling that, in teenagers, threatens to become an explosion: alienation from the grown-up world and from one another, fear of not belonging, distrust of authority, and the panoply of emotions that accompany our first romantic impulses.