Sentence examples for by estrangement from inspiring English sources

It had been a decision of Khrushchev's Politburo not to publish this novel by a "bourgeois individualist", moreover a Jew, whose work was marked by "estrangement from Soviet life".

Since the hostage crisis, ties between Washington and Tehran have been characterized by estrangement at best and war footing at worst.

She was devastated by Diana's death, a grief compounded by an estrangement caused by a magazine interview she had given, four months earlier, dislosing personal details about her daughter.

Haggis mined the experience for the script of "Million Dollar Baby," in which the lead character, played by Clint Eastwood, is haunted by his estrangement from his daughter.

He is tormented by his estrangement from his adopted daughter, Sunny (an orphan from Korea), and by memories of his wartime service in Burma.

She never settled down happily to life in England, however, and continued to be deeply troubled by her estrangement from her deposed father.

Purified by their estrangement from the white majority, the abolitionists' egalitarianism prompted them to challenge inequities of class and gender as well as race.

Although Doreen is saddened by the estrangement with her family, she knew there would be sacrifices.

Later, Winnie was deeply torn by family discord which mirrored the country's political strife; separation (April 1992) and divorce (March 1996), fuelled by political estrangement.

Swirling around them is a battery of helpmates and hinderers (some returning from Binchy's earlier works) who are variously inspired by Emily's indefatigable can-do spirit or bound by a common estrangement from their own kin.

At times he just deflates, exhausted by his own estrangement.