Sentence examples for has estranged us from inspiring English sources

But civilisation has estranged us superficially from Nature, and towns make it possible for a man to live as if a millionaire could really produce all the necessities of life - food, drink, clothes, vehicles etc and then a tombstone".

Although she has an acute sense of historical decay -- of the discontinuities that estranged the Haight-Ashbury generation from their parents' universe, of the focus-group politics that have estranged us from Washington -- her writing encompasses far more than stories of contemporary decline.

The constant turmoil has estranged many former Aristide allies and contributed to a climate of violence.

Her rebellion against her Islamic roots has estranged her somewhat from her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, whom she had always emulated.

Their decision to back the peace process has estranged them from many of their hard-line colleagues.

Don's sister, Denise, has found her own escape, but the pagan spirituality she embraces has estranged her from her brother, who does not speak to her.

Meanwhile, an influx of white men — and modernity — has estranged the natives from the land and the traditions that enabled them to survive there.

Jeremy, a nineteenth-century engineer whose homosexuality has estranged him from his family and friends in Maine, takes a job building a railroad across British East Africa.

He has estranged most of his Arab and African friends, and even the Soviet Union has treated him warily though it provides him weapons.

They write affectionate letters trying to distract him with lively descriptions of David Garrick's latest acting triumphs at Drury Lane, but Sir Charles is tortured by the terrible secret that has estranged him from his wife and threatens his very sanity.

Those numbers underscore just how badly the Republican Party has estranged itself from what one of its natural constituencies.