Sentence examples for complete otherness from inspiring English sources

He had a confusing twinned sense of her closeness and complete otherness.

It took Aaronovitch time to realise "the complete otherness" of his shabby Hampstead home.

All the same, his family existed at a right angle – or perhaps I mean a left angle – to the rest of the world; they lived in a state of "complete otherness".

He has never been with a woman, and his skin, oily and blemished, is the visual manifestation of his anxiety — about women, about his own alienation in the face of their complete otherness.

I suppose it's just that complete sense of otherness, isn't it?

In the old city zoos — at the height of what might be called zookeeping's Colonial Era — the very harshness of the animals' anthropocentric framing was a direct reflection both of the depth of our awe over their fearsome otherness and of our complete ignorance of their rightful homes.

In his essay "Farewell to the Monkey House," Charles Siebert writes: In the old city zoos — at the height of what might be called zookeeping's Colonial Era — the very harshness of the animals' anthropocentric framing was a direct reflection both of the depth of our awe over their fearsome otherness and of our complete ignorance of their rightful homes.

Their consideration of others — and otherness — was apparent to me from the beginning.

(c) Arguments also demonstrate respect for the otherness of others.

Two other sources of "otherness" besides bodiliness underlie the limitations on perceptual knowledge.

"We must respect the otherness of the other".