7 For the greater their estrangement from Eumenes and their hostility to him, the more did they court the friendship of Attalus and strengthen his power.
But in any event, whereas heaven is in general thought of as a realm in which people experience the bliss of perfect fellowship and harmony with God and with each other, hell is in general thought of as a realm in which people experience the greatest possible estrangement from God, the greatest possible sense of alienation, and perhaps also an intense hatred of everyone including themselves.
But once it comes time to make a concrete decision and implement it, Russian tax policy, the companies' positions as global price takers, and the greater and longstanding estrangement of the Russian populace from direct oil revenue benefits will render a voluntary cut highly unlikely.
The musicologist Karol Berger has claimed, boldly but plausibly, that Schubert's cycle is "our civilization's greatest poem of existential estrangement and isolation".
One of his great later sadnesses was his estrangement from five children by his first marriage.
So while there is greater dislike for compromise among Republicans, estrangement based on real disagreements about Trump, a candidate from outside the GOP who exhibits undemocratic norms, as well as greater policy differences between candidates, are critical to more Republican than Democratic disunity.
That didn't have to be a bad thing; estrangement and obsession have spawned great songs.
Professor Stebbins said he became convinced that the greatest threat facing the environment was human estrangement from nature.
His great – and modern – subjects are indecision, bewilderment, estrangement, not-knowing, and the "empty space" between people: these are all experiences that cannot be written about conclusively.
In this article, Silcox makes an analogy between great German Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht's estrangement effects and the psychological phenomenon of imaginative resistance.
