Sentence examples for it seem alien from inspiring English sources

Did it seem alien delving into genetics and plant science?

Its story is sunk in an era just old enough that it seems alien and fascinating -- but what happens when it starts to bleed into the places we already know too well and find less pretty?

It seemed alien and incredible.

"Maybe this was a better way," thinks Evie, early on, "even though it seemed alien.

The problem with such a concept of dressed-up daywear was that it seemed alien until after dark, when a lace blouse teamed with a slim skirt had a sleek chic or a swooshing long dress in blush-pink taffeta had a dash of drama.

We have seen it before but yet it seems alien.

Obama's name and color may make him seem alien to Americans who don't live in a multiracial, multicultural paradise.

Know that you have good reason to fear electricity; it can seem alien and carries immense power to do useful tasks or cause damage and injury.

It may be slightly mercenary on my part, but it doesn't seem alien to friendship to see good in the other and want it for yourself.

Absurd or not, it does indeed seem alien – not least to those born in the 1980s, the generation we shall always call Thatcher's children.

It would hardly seem alien to an aspiring red-carpet queen swinging an outsize Balenciaga tote, or to an ambitious young Manhattan trader girded for battle in a Hugo Boss suit.