Sentence examples for appear alien from inspiring English sources

While Muslims' lives were clearly changed, also changed were the lives of people who had nothing to do with the Islamic world but who might appear alien to untutored American eyes.

He shares with the great stylists – Dickens, Joyce, Nabokov, Bellow – the ability to make the world appear alien while rendering it a more intense version of itself, and the power to recalibrate the reader's own perception of the environment in which they live.

Three town centre skyscrapers on a former car dealership would appear "alien" and "foreboding" to the area, council planning officers have said.

While some of the 2016 campaigns may appear alien, the way they're designed remains marketable.

The vulnerability of children and the device of using anthropomorphized creatures, push at our boundaries of acceptance of things that appear alien.

In their solidified forms, the molds retain a semblance of the human figure yet also appear alien in their ghostly hue and coral-like in their topographies. .

Although this call for the state to step in and do its job appears alien to our current political leaders, it chimes not only with decades of pre-Thatcher economic consensus, but also the expectations of a majority of voters.

The UK should consider allowing internet voting in elections because the current system risks appearing alien and outdated to an increasingly disenfranchised younger generation, the election watchdog has said.

I was alternately flying — that must have been because of the alcohol, at least I was able to take the initiative and talk to everyone with ease in that lofty manner that occasionally but not very often took hold of me — and completely on the fringes, when everyone around the table, even Yngve, appeared alien to me, indeed not only that, but also totally irrelevant.

The delights of Europe appear as alien to them as to Jean-Marie Le Pen.

"The trouble is that those stories appear too alien and asymmetric.