Sentence examples for its alienation from inspiring English sources

Advocates of a leaner -- or at least more decentralized -- bureaucracy say that the biggest problem with the central office is its alienation from the communities it serves.

New Labour was regressive and technocratic; in its heart of hearts it dreaded the messiness of democracy; the poor and the put-upon were not to its taste; its alienation from ideology - another word for thinking - left it doomed to be tossed about by the great issues of our time.

There is an exhilaration in its alienation and anger.

It hardly knows itself as a part of society, so deep runs its alienation.

Thoroughly trained in literature and philosophy, Sontag applied the standards of the past — truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality — to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perversity.

"This verdict is certification of the ongoing state tradition of political murders and its alienation of some citizens as the enemy," Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family, told television reporters at the scene.

As to land, even when its use was regarded as rightfully belonging to an individual, its free alienation by sale or gift, and even more so by will, was for long periods hedged in by superior rights of the kinship group, the village, or the feudal lord.

She understood its elaborate alienation and self-pity; she heard, beneath the jaded, post-1960s self-mockery, the hope that nontraditional lifestyle choices were still viable, and the fear that they weren't.

Their fans include a majority of kids who identify with the music and its cocky alienation, and a smattering of preppie types in buttoned-down shirts, out for an evening's slumming.

Export: Opus Jazz," by Jerome Robbins and set to music by Robert Prince, may date to 1958, but its subject, alienation, never really fades, as was made clear in the recent excellent film of the ballet, set in at gritty sites in and around New York.

The racially integrated Pasadena offered a window into the racism Butler would describe in her books, the best of which deal with survival — and how the black female body, despite its relative alienation in American society from slavery on, looks to other bodies of her kind to move forward, move on.