Sentence examples for extremely foreign from inspiring English sources

But however much we love to cite the Greeks as a pristine standard, as models for contemporary culture, we do so at no little risk; we may like to think of ourselves as Greek, but the fact is that much of classical thought and culture is extremely foreign to us.

And they're even more amazed when they see a child with a physical magazine and it's extremely foreign to them.

It's all so inexact and unpredictable that as denizens of a pixel-perfect digital age, most of our readers will find it extremely foreign if they have no experience with older film cameras.

Admittedly, when I first began reading The Course, the language and many of the concepts were extremely foreign to me.

It was extremely foreign to me to buckle down and purchase flat sandals this summer, so to wear actual sneakers is like an epiphany for my feet.

When you've experienced a culture first hand, especially one that feels, smells and sounds extremely foreign to you, something significant happens.

At the same time, the United States continues to run extremely high foreign trade deficits.

But bank credit in emerging Asia (ex-China) is extremely sluggish, foreign bank lending is down sharply, and FDI is falling or slowing in many countries.

She's even got extremely solid foreign policy credentials (as measured by Republican voters).

As we were getting ready to leave the plane, he accosted Eric Nonacs, an intelligent and extremely efficient foreign-policy aide, and asked him for some detailed information on the Millennium Debt Relief Initiative.

Over the next 300 years China would become extremely isolated from foreign merchants; China prohibited foreigners or foreign trade and languages other than Chinese.