Sentence examples for yet alien from inspiring English sources
The CD is small and convenient, yet alien... Tells how data on a CD is digitally encoded.
The "voice" of the play was recognisable and yet alien, like a familiar object viewed from an unusual angle.
The CD is small and convenient, yet alien... Tells how data on a CD is digitally encoded..
A pale sun rose over the city as sergeant Scott Carty steered the squad car into Nickerson Gardens, a public housing project in Watts, ready to patrol a familiar yet alien landscape.
With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine and Brenda Neotomie) Prolific Twine creator Porpentine's distinctive word palette often creates vivid yet alien spaces, with imagery alternately vulgar and beautiful in turns, but this particular game asks of the player a particularly-intimate task: to draw symbols on your own skin while playing.
"There are few things more arresting or offputting than to have your gaze met by something 'other' – familiar yet alien," Richards writes of the painter Jenny Saville who describes her own shock, sometimes, at what she's created, and revels in the exuberance of simply building in paint, she calls it, "sort of like plastering", that she achieved with lino tiles pulled up from her studio floor.
Yet aliens are probably already here, in the form of fluffy, submicroscopic bits of dust from out of this world that were captured 10 years ago by NASA's Stardust spacecraft and parachuted to Earth in 2006.
Rather like the equally brilliant foot chase sequence in Point Break, the threading of hunter and hunted through alleyways, gardens and - in 71's case - knocked-through terrace housing to facilitate guerrilla operations, offers a succinct exposition of the familiar-yet-alien urban landscape of riot-torn Belfast.
The Land's End trailer dropped this morning, offering a tranquil glimpse into the familiar-yet-alien "large-scale sculpture". .
The effect is eerily like a hothouse hatchery, with the bulbs suggesting the germinating eggs of yet another alien species.
The stuff of everyday English life, in fact - and yet utterly alien to many of our film-makers.
