Sentence examples for long estrangement from from inspiring English sources

"I became interested in my own happiness," Helen says, by way of explaining her long estrangement from her mother and grandmother.

FOR a party some historians say has been defined by little more than an instinct for winning and holding power, the Conservatives' long estrangement from high office has been traumatic.

To Mandelbaum, the most dangerous place on the planet is the Taiwan Strait, where, he says, the question of Taiwan's long estrangement from mainland China is a tinderbox for war between the United States and China.

Peres also spoke of Snow's long estrangement from his mother, Taya, and his closeness to his grandmother, Christophe, who, it seemed, occasionally bailed him out when the fitful living he earned from his outsider art was not enough to support his wife and young child.

He jokes more broadly in a sonnet of 1647, built around the unpromising name of one of his prose pamphlets, "Tetrachordon": the word means "four-stringed" and the pamphlet used four passages in the Bible to make its argument in favour of divorce, written during his long estrangement from his first wife.

At 21, the remaining sisters each got $250,000 from a trust fund of their childhood earnings, and shortly afterward they took a determined stab at normalcy, moving into an apartment in Montreal and thus beginning a long estrangement from their parents.

The book is littered with incidents involving people who were once close friends of Mr. Geffen's but endured long estrangements from him because of incidents that one side or the other viewed as betrayals.

For now, we sip our sparkling water and ponder perhaps an even more surprising fact than the actor's decades-long estrangement from hangovers.

After a long estrangement, he was welcomed back by the Yankees.

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.

After a long estrangement, Mr. Fowley and Ms. Currie became friends again in 2008.