Sentence examples for seemingly alien from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bell does an admirable job of attempting to engender within his readers the same sort of alienation his couple experiences, removing them from well-known surroundings, taking them to a seemingly alien land.

8 30 P.M. (TV5Monde) LE JOURNAL D'AURÉLIE LAFLAMME (2010) A 14-year-old (Marianne Verville), unsettled since her father's death, chronicles her efforts to find her place in a seemingly alien world that she imagines may literally be her home away from home.

"Connections between what?" Caplan then asks rhetorically, answering, "Between such disparate materials as wood and steel, between such seemingly alien disciplines as physics and painting, between clowns and mathematical concepts, between people — architects and mathematicians and poets and philosophers and corporate executives".

Early in Dinaw Mengestu's new novel, "How to Read the Air," the main character, a troubled young Ethiopian-American named Jonas Woldemariam, goes to a job interview, only to be asked, "Where's that accent of yours from?" by a prospective boss baffled by his seemingly alien provenance.

Millions of Britons long for someone or something to protect them from the seemingly alien forces that threaten to steal their livelihoods.

The Doctor discovers a seemingly alien figure in a window of the painting The Church at Auvers, and decides they must travel back in time to speak to Vincent around when he painted the painting.

There was almost no branch of science that could not be conjoined with something seemingly quite alien: astrobotany was his favorite example of a field of study yet to emerge.

They include "Eastwick," based on the John Updike novel about witches in a New England town; "V," a revival of the 1980s miniseries about the arrival of seemingly peaceful aliens on Earth; and "Flash Forward," in which the world's entire population glimpses its future and grapples with what is coming.

From the threat of nuclear war to increasingly frequent and fierce natural disasters, to the seemingly less likely alien invasion or zombie apocalypse now, more than ever, the current climate of the world (and our two-minutes to midnight Doomsday Clock status) seems to have validated my childhood paranoia.

The discovery of a vast and seemingly uninhabited ship of alien design forces the competing factions to work together.

More than once a whale thrilled onlookers with behavior called spy-hopping, poking an enormous head out of the water, seemingly to examine the alien creatures examining it.