Sentence examples for profoundly alien from inspiring English sources

Today's politics of goodness, of morality rather than might, are profoundly alien to him.

These reference points are as unsettling as they are reassuring, because they are glimpsed from a vantage point that is newly and profoundly alien.

Saddled with that profoundly alien name, Gogol wanders through his coming-of-age in his adopted homeland, becoming a charmingly spazzy young man and, finally, an oblivious cuckold.

This first novel by Lahiri, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Interpreter of Maladies," is a mild, graceful study in dissonance: its Indian-American hero, Gogol Ganguli, is afflicted with a name that feels profoundly alien and seems committed to wafting haphazardly through life.

We are so accustomed to swimming in the water of a nation-state world that anything else seems profoundly alien.

That is, they are familiar and profoundly alien all at once, to disturbing effect.

Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.

Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir notes that Alien "has a profoundly existentialist undertow that makes it feel like a film noir" and praises it over its "increasingly baroque" sequels as "a film about human loneliness amid the emptiness and amorality of creation.

However, it is this same bundle of characteristics that profoundly complicates the process of negotiating the alien world of a large, English-language dominated, Australian hospital system.

Seen positively, the principle of equal dignity calls for respect for all human beings, even those with whom we most profoundly disagree or whose cultures or lifestyles seem most alien to us.

Stanley G. Weinbaum won immediate and lasting acclaim with his more sophisticated approach in A Martian Odyssey (1934), which presented aliens whose behaviour, though whimsical, harmless, and colourful, was profoundly inexplicable to human mentality.