Sentence examples for state of estrangement from inspiring English sources

Haggis's marriage had long been troubled, and he and his wife were entering a final state of estrangement.

The common point in all existentialism, whether it is atheistic or theistic, is that man's existential situation is a state of estrangement from his essential nature.

The relationship between Wayne Rooney and Manchester United, which began with the starry-eyed 18-year-old being granted a personal tour of the Carrington training ground by Sir Alex Ferguson, while a grinning Gary Neville tried to persuade him to buy one of his houses, is drifting into a deep and irretrievable state of estrangement.

Before their tragic separation, Isaac and Farnaz had reached a state of near estrangement: both felt their marriage had made them people they hadn't wanted to be.

Now living with his father in a state of grieving estrangement, Mike often recalls his mother, who flickers like a vital, loving shadow at the novel's periphery.

Eventually whatever stage of estrangement you are in, the situation will become more bearable.

August's parents are living in a state of semi-estrangement.

This state of self-estrangement may take the form of feeling as if one is machinelike, is living in a dream, or is not in control of one's actions.

The French are so busy wallowing in their existential estrangement — a state of mind Camus described as "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" — that they don't even have the energy to be rude.

There followed a long period of estrangement from television.

Those representatives include Secretary of State John Kerry, and a meeting with Mr. Zarif would be one of the highest-level meetings between the United States and Iran in more than three decades of estrangement.