Sentence examples for historical estrangement from inspiring English sources
Another product of this historical estrangement was the birth, in 2005, of the Parti des Indigènes de la République (the Party of the Indigenous People of the Republic), a groupuscule composed largely of activists of North and West African heritage who flaunt their alienation from French society as a badge of pride.
By the same token, the historical destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem is transformed by myth into a paradigm of the continuing mutual estrangement of God and humans, their exile from one another.
He interprets the unsettling qualities of today's architecture its fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its "seeing walls" replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness.
This estrangement could worsen.
But why the estrangement?
It is an unusual estrangement.
Estrangement or engagement?
Now there is estrangement.
each faced his own estrangement.
This final, climactic estrangement is held in reserve until after the dramatic events that break in on Jenny's uneasy solitude; events narrated with desolate historical sweep and startling particular shrewdness.
