Sentence examples for feel alien to from inspiring English sources

The challenge is to get them to spend the money on a bag, a kind of luxury that can still feel alien to them.

The rhetoric will certainly rouse the hundreds of thousands who have flooded into the party, but still it may feel alien to millions.

Without it, though, I'd face a lifetime in a body I loathe, being asked to meet social expectations which feel alien to me, creating mental health problems that would require (state-funded) treatment for years, even decades.

Such 'stripped down' perspectives, devoid of the details most biologists routinely deal with, may feel alien to most experimentalists but they potentially facilitate the detection of large-scale patterns that may otherwise be difficult to discern.

The Peters Delusion Inventory Peters, Josephh, Day, & Garety, 2004) is a 21-item scale designed to measure delusional ideation in the normal population (e.g. "Do your thoughts ever feel alien to you in some way?").

She had no restraints; she felt alien to convention.

Is it any surprise the domestic world feels alien to many men?

A surface that feels alien to today's finely conditioned elite players is likelier to produce upsets.

The writer is taking events that belong to several people, appropriating them for himself, and turning them into something that feels alien to those who have lived them.

He admits that it still feels alien to take so much time off, because he feels as if someone might be getting an edge on him.

Jon Erwin, who co-directed the film with his brother Andrew, told NPR that he was "raised in the South in a Christian home and family," and that the values of many contemporary Hollywood films felt alien to him.