alienation
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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
Susanna ultimately is freed, not because she’s cured of the alienation she has always felt but because of an accepted marriage proposal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
He posits that all the various forms of our modern alienation are connected, drawing throughlines that are both preposterous and incisive as he shows his work.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
“Kafkaesque” suggests that translation is the quintessential medium for a body of work obsessed with alienation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men's House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
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 Smith, Arthur H.
Consequently, when the war was over, they had no alienations to adjust, no broken down walls to rebuild, no breaches to close up.
From Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings by Graham, Robert
This trade held on for many years after the bishops became Protestants; and some of their names are still remembered with infamy, on account of enriching their families by such sacrilegious alienations.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
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