alienation
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But what he also wants to confront are the elements of alienation that made the show—about an ex-spy in Kafkaesque confinement—a cult hit and a profile of postwar psychology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The conception of the role, marked by a dim view of stardom’s suffocating alienation, was something Jolie clearly understood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Yet despite its blind spots the book is a step toward an embrace of fathers at a moment when boys and men struggle with hostility and alienation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Written with clear compassion and boasting a robust performance by Lili Taylor, “I Shot Andy Warhol” portrays Solanas as a product of modern alienation.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
It was all part of the Adams pattern, an iconoclastic and contrarian temperament that relished alienation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals, – all, all must be comprised in it; and oblivion of the past – how natural, how certain too!
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021
John David Washington’s performance in BlacKkKlansman is impressive but the film’s quasi-Brechtian alienations and comic cartoonery arguably mean that it is more difficult to engage with his character emotionally.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019
How few have done justice to the sad partings, the mournful alienations that have been caused by circumstances!
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen
Everybody knows that misunderstandings create divisions in families and alienations in friendships—in parties as well as in persons—which timely inquiries would dissipate.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
That all this social ceremony is upon the whole a good thing cannot be doubted, for it prevents many alienations, and heals in their early stages many cases of strained relations.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.
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