Sentence examples for state of alienation from inspiring English sources

The history of Afrikaans literature is the history of the Afrikaners, an alien people whose literature is a testimony to that state of alienation.

But he sinks deeper and deeper into a state of alienation.

People experiencing depression can reach such a state of alienation that they risk taking their lives - but the vast majority of people with depression would never harm anyone other than themselves.

Suzie Mackenzie, also of The Guardian, has identified a theme of "characters in a state of alienation ... women who have forgotten or lost themselves.

We can't continue to live in such a state of alienation and anger, or allow our children to keep teaching us -- so often, with their lives -- that change is long overdue.

It's an almost classic state of alienation, in which people may be acutely aware of their own increasing difficulties (although sometimes they can be numb to that as well) but experience them in a state of isolation.

But after I was brought to jail I had no other way to express my feelings, as I was then in a state of complete alienation and loneliness.

But then, in this very challenged state of teenage alienation, I was suddenly at home, alone, on Saturday night, and with the perfect storm in film experience, about to break.

By the time I reached it I was starting to fall into such a state of nauseous alienation that I saw Kinski as a symbol of Art, about to be crushed by the lethal glamour of Money and the Market.

Mr. Storr describes Mr. Richter's situation as a state of "fundamental alienation, of which art can be a finely calibrated gauge, and for which it is a consolation but not a remedy".

I cannot speak for others, but what it taught me was the frustration of the potential suicide at the way the rest of the world marches to a different, rational rhythm, and assumes there are cures and answers for a state of raging alienation.