Sentence examples for estrangement that from inspiring English sources

But I'm trying to explain the estrangement that comes over one after some years.

The creators hope it goes at least a small way towards breaking down the walls of estrangement that were built up over decades of strife.

With his strengthened political hand at home, Mr. Khatami should do his part to ease an estrangement that serves neither America's interests nor Iran's.

But the most effective way to reduce the racial estrangement that clearly contributed to the Diallo shooting is to intensify recruiting to further integrate the police force.

Manual labour and screen performance are rendered inhuman, which makes them both frightening and funny, and echoes the formalist principles of estrangement that fed into constructivist architecture.

Even when she found the letters, she said, her adoptive parents did little to help her connect with her birth family, leading to an estrangement that lasted for years.

He grew up seeing his last name on blue coal trucks circling the streets of St . Louis this prepared him for the uncanny experience of "walking down to Eighty-­second Street / To Barnes & Noble to buy my own book" — the self-estrangement that writers feel when their own name is the one on the cover.

The union was so long and contentious — a "fifty-year drama," Heffron says — played out in so many different geographies and social positions, with so many pullings together and estrangements, that any over-all assessment of it has proved difficult.

The union was so long and contentious a "fifty-year drama," Heffron says played out in so many different geographies and social positions, with so many pullings together and estrangements, that any over-all assessment of it has proved difficult.

The latter is a familiar – and sometimes uncanny – space for July: she purchased mirandajuly.com in the late 90s (and festooned it with "artistic scribbles"), launched a wonderful collaborative art project-turned-website, Learning to Love You More, in 2002, and, through her artwork and films, explored the peculiar intimacies and estrangements that come with life online.

By deploying stock English phrases in unfamiliar ways, Achebe expresses his characters' estrangement from that language.