Sentence examples for meant to estrange from inspiring English sources

His "Pastoral" was meant to estrange us from this classic music, but the result was curiously tentative.

The moral dilemmas that Scalzi is able to generate from this premise are often quite stunning: once again he is concerned with a warrior class that feels increasingly estranged from the citizenship it is meant to protect.

In movies like "Curly Top," "Bright Eyes," "The Little Colonel," and "The Little Princess," Shirley's characters gamely took on the tasks of reconciling long estranged adults, nudging pairs who were meant to fall in love to do so, believing in them when neither they nor their fellow grownups did, and generally cheering them up and on.

Going to a match with your estranged father has something of the effect that taking communion together is meant to have for Christians.

It read, in part: "The consistent use of the term — with the steady drumbeat of what it means — can be an effective constraint on practices that threaten to estrange intercollegiate athletics from higher education".

In winter 57 56 Cicero attempted unsuccessfully to estrange Pompey from Caesar.

The first job of a revival show would be to estrange him.

Her essential argument in Death of a Hermeneutic Phantom is that Modernist architecture, through its unacknowledged idealism, failed to estrange.

Following suit, we seek to estrange and embrace the notion of "Asia" as a call to scholarly action.

The Starbucks campaign promises to estrange some.

I wondered if she meant his estranged wife, Anne Baxter, one of Fox's stars who didn't like Marilyn and wasn't liked by Marilyn since All About Eve.