Sentence examples for felt alien to from inspiring English sources

She had no restraints; she felt alien to convention.

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.

His lodging in this upscale beach city also felt alien to him: a four-bedroom trilevel modern California home, with sweeping canyon views that completed a picture his mind's eye never could have conceived.

Using this phenomenon, Akten wanted to create an experience that felt alien to people.

The land of rock and sand felt alien to Bervoets so the artist grasped for a symbol as out of place as he felt in the desert.

It means looking at people who feel alien to you, and understanding how they think.

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.

Stories written in a dense, institutional language that fails to clarify important subjects and feels alien to younger readers.

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.

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