Instead of the alienation of immigration, Nora faces estrangement at home: "Nora found herself wondering if there was somewhere she could go, if there was a town, or a part of Dublin with a house like this one … where no one could visit them and they could be alone there, all three of them.
Once, someone was allowed to go home, and was returned by terrified parents, unable to face the estrangement of her simple cooing and rocking in all-day masturbation.
But as a position paper issued under Ms. Ploumen's leadership asserted, governments and politicians had too long failed to accept the feelings of "loss and estrangement" faced by national societies in the face of immigrant communities that disregard or mock their laws and customs.
Professor Stebbins said he became convinced that the greatest threat facing the environment was human estrangement from nature.
Completing the Bascombe trilogy is The Lay of the Land (2006), in which Bascombe, now a suburban real estate agent, faces aging, further marital problems, estrangement from his adult children, and cancer.
Its detainee population faces the grim prospect of permanent estrangement from their families and the only life they know for months, years.
African-Americans faced crushing segregation and near complete estrangement from all the levers of opportunity and advancement necessary for socio-economic assent.
Without any right of appeal, he goes Awol and embarks on a violent journey of self-examination, faced with the prospect of permanent exile, jail, estrangement from family and former comrades unless he decides to give himself up and recant.
They face eviction from their homes, dismissal from their jobs and estrangement from their families".
