Sentence examples for somewhat foreign to from inspiring English sources

It is a model that is still somewhat foreign to Microsoft, a company founded nearly four decades ago.

These monosyllables govern one another by means of an order both consolatory and somewhat foreign to modern female experience: eating first, loving last, and praying – an activity unpoliticised by the female psyche and one she might vaguely associate with being cared for, separating the two like a referee a pair of boxers in the ring.

I should rather regard this Rationalistic terminology as somewhat foreign to Hedonism.

But such a detour through psychology, though widely practiced in the eighteenth century, was somewhat foreign to medieval thought (White 1990a).

Stanley Cavell has argued that Thoreau is an embarrassment to "what we have learned to call philosophy," since his work embodies "a mode of conceptual accuracy" that is "based on an idea of rigor" somewhat foreign to the academic establishment (Cavell 1988, 14).

The people who live there out of necessity or love of the place are somewhat foreign to me.

He had time for marketing (historically a 'concept somewhat foreign at the Guardian', according to Geoffrey Taylor) and together with Gibbings made an effort not only to identify and celebrate the Guardian's existing qualities and readers, but also to use these strengths to focus ad sales techniques.

"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say," he writes in "Walden," "as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South.

For the generations in the middle, though, for whom opera may be somewhat foreign or a sign of generational rebellion, self-selected alternatives may be the better option.

As a multiracial and somewhat foreign person I have on occasion found myself on the receiving end of the same kind of unease that many Americans seem to have about Barack Obama's ambiguous identity.

This was somewhat foreign (no pun intended) for me, especially having played in W.P.S. for three years where you knew every player so well and played each team three or four times during the season.