Sentence examples for self-alienation from inspiring English sources
The word 'self-alienation' is correct and usable in written English
It refers to the state of feeling disconnected or separated from one's own self, thoughts, or emotions. Example: The protagonist's constant self-doubt and lack of self-acceptance led to a deep sense of self-alienation, making it difficult for her to form meaningful relationships with others.
His self-alienation had divided him in two.
Meanwhile, most of us are hammering away at a terrible self-alienation, mistreated, lied to and blamed.
And to be in the wrong is even worse – not just a challenge, but a shattering experience of self-alienation.
Ransom's poetry, which one critic has applauded as exhibiting weighty facts "in small or delicate settings," often deals with the subjects of self-alienation and death.
To test that hypothesis, Dr Gino and her colleagues ran the experiment again, this time including a test meant to detect self-alienation.
Yet another form of emotional labor involves toggling between all the different kinds of emotional labor without being fazed by the self-alienation and contradictions involved.
The driver of polarization and source of social poison in these countries has been a mutual and self-supporting alienation.
All too often these days, we're bombarded by stories about the love affairs of gorgeous young people who have nothing to lose but their self-imposed alienation.
You watch James Moore (born Santiago Moore Zamora) wander through his landscape of self-imposed alienation: the leather-bars-cum-dungeons of contemporary gay London.
After a couple of lo-fi efforts about the self-aware alienation of 20-something Angelenos, his nihilist road movie "The Living End" (1992) vaulted him to prominence as part of the out-and-proud New Queer Cinema.
The playwright doesn't mention cockroaches, but he does talk of monsters, and his expansive meditation on the strains of 21st-century city living contains all the self-interest, alienation and distrust you'd need to write the least humane of Sun editorials.
