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
Eugène Ionesco’s play, currently running at American Repertory Theater, has the two actors sparring over ideas of alienation and belonging amid the outbreak of a metamorphic disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
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
His alienation from the press caused ongoing problems.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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 Catherine Helen Spence
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
But I shall here relate another case of that wonderful disease, which fell yesterday under my eye, and to which I have seen many analogous alienations of mind, though not exactly similar in all circumstances.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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