One must be grateful especially to those who, within and without the ranks of the B.M.A., have striven through what seemed at times almost hopeless estrangements to keep alive the spirit of compromise and co-operation.
What Kitamura's narrator doesn't tell the older woman is that she and Christopher have been separated for six months, an estrangement he has made her promise to keep secret for reasons that she — and we — will never know.
A genogram includes symbols to indicate family interactions such as conflict, closeness, estrangement, etc. Emotional relationships have specific symbols that help keep the flow of the genogram clear.
The old king's estrangement from his three daughters from his first marriage (Princesses Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine) spurred Leopold to keep or give as much wealth away as possible in order to disinherit the girls.
No wonder their estrangement turns to anger, especially when those at the top cause even more pain for those below them by, say, blowing up the economy in a financial crisis, or squeezing worker pay, or exploiting tax loopholes in order to keep more of the cash they use to pay their huge salaries.
Yet that sense of estrangement hasn't kept him isolated, as the rosters for the Brooklyn concerts demonstrate.
Mother and son kept in touch but a pattern of estrangement and blame set in.
The symptoms include a woeful lack of familiarity with that elusive culinary commodity known as "real food," or "good food," or "slow food," and total estrangement from Mother Earth--who, by the way, keeps hanging around outside pining for a glimpse of you while you remain indoors, mesmerized by your monitor or TV screen and mindlessly munching on ersatz edibles.
Along with his estrangement from McCartney, Lennon always felt a musical competitiveness with him and kept an ear on his music.
We'd had no definitive reconciliation, but over the months of his illness our long estrangement had begun to dissolve, and, with it, the familiar, inchoate fear that sometimes kept me from touching him.
