I had grown alienated from my studies and had recently ended a relationship that had both consumed and confined me.
What has been less understood is the process by which young people grow alienated with their own country, and seek the validation of their identity in a faraway civil war.
The new bishops, William Murdoch of Massachusetts, at right in photo, and Bill Atwood of Texas, left, will minister to Americans who have grown alienated from the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism, which takes a liberal stance on homosexuality.
At the same time, many, perhaps even most, Twitter users have grown alienated by the disproportionate toxicity that a minority of users can spread, and in particular by the kind of pack harassment that is often directed at "controversial" figures, many of whom are visible minorities or women.
She has grown alienated from the queer culture that's emerged during the pandemic, and her estrangement sometimes expresses itself in an ugly resentment — she refers to ACT/UP, the vital grassroots advocacy group formed in 1987, as ACT/OUT, "Aggrieved Children Throwing One Uncut Tantrum".
Maynard's expressed fear of growing alienated from herself, or the self she knew, as her cancer advanced is worth taking very seriously.
Dislocated workers in Pakistan have grown alienated over the past decade because of the government's failure to literally keep the lights on and businesses running.
The emergence of Calvary Chapel paralleled — and helped to fuel — the so-called "Jesus movement" of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which embraced religious seekers who had grown alienated from the secular counterculture.
