Among the cast is Lloyd Burko, a past-his-prime reporter, married four times, alienated from all his children except one, whom he's about to betray as a source, only to find.... Well, I won't give that away, but it's quite something.
Yet he was at times alienated from Judaism and Jewish life: "What have I in common with Jews?
You want to root for this immigrant artist, whose breathless program biography describes him as "based in the mighty New York"; "On Life," with its buckling, collapsing phrases set to Philip Glass, pushes the dancers to drenched exhaustion in a clear emulation of chaotic, at times alienating, urban life.
For the supreme leader, a weak loyal president might be less threatening than Mr. Ahmadinejad, who over time alienated the ayatollah as he consolidated his own power through the bureaucracy.
The protagonist of Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life (1963, produced by Reisz) is yet another working-class outsider, this time alienated from himself as well as from the world.
But writing all the time alienated me from the crowd slightly, and because of that I did tend to look at the world with a more jaundiced eye.
After Kara meets the Fletcher clan — including the bow-tied, mustachioed Byron (Byrne), looking like an aspirant mixologist — she wastes no time alienating herself.
If galleries and theatres start trying to attract teenagers, they will fail, while at the same time alienating their natural constituencies.
Old wars never die Budding greens Fast foes Keith Colquhoun Splittism on the roof of the world Correction: Tibet ReprintsIts rivals hope it will be a one-hit wonder, and think its business leanings will, in time, alienate the public.
Mr. Bush, however, was never really that serious about the carrots, and he spent so much time alienating America's friends that he was never able to win broad support for the sticks: credible international sanctions.
By failing to lead our nation in a new direction, Mr. Obama has given rise to a tidal wave of reactionary conservatism while at the same time alienating his base of progressive support.
