alienation
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Now one of their own had become mayor, and some Jewish New Yorkers were experiencing a sense of alienation that she recognized.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Such is his alienation that, when recently asked whether he considered his home to be in the U.S. or the U.K., he replied “neither.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean Studies professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP Guryong "symbolises the alienation of the urban poor from the mainstream of South Korean society".
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Instead of odes to the old cabin home in the mountains or the little church in the wildwood, Busby sang about the loneliness and alienation of life in the nation’s capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling—the reminder of intimacy.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
These miserable habits of tale-bearing and meddling, of backbiting and whispering, are the source of the greater part of the quarrellings, alienations, jealousies, and divisions in families.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
The Formula of Concord was the cause of the most bitter controversies, dissensions, and alienations.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Between father and son, said Mencius, there should be no reproving admonitions to what is good, because these lead to such alienations.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
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