Sentence examples for comfortable estrangement from inspiring English sources
He is a disillusioned lecturer, out of favour with his college, misanthropic with his students; she is a teacher, still eager to grab life by the throat, wanting more from her future than the acceptance of disappointment or the familiarity of comfortable estrangement.
As they travel alone together for the first time in eight years of childless marriage, their festering estrangement, from each other and from their comfortable way of life, bursts into open conflict.
Add feelings of guilt that they are enjoying a comfortable life in America while their putative brothers and sisters suffer in a distant land and an element of personal estrangement — say, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's statement in an interview long before the attack that after five years in the United States, "I don't have a single American friend" — and it is a combustible mix.
This estrangement could worsen.
It is an unusual estrangement.
But why the estrangement?
Estrangement or engagement?
Now there is estrangement.
each faced his own estrangement.
Is estrangement a conscious theme for you?
