alienation

"There is no doubt in my mind," he said, that "alienation... had been creeping up."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

This LAX, unlike the island of civility and good manners Maksik remembers from childhood, fosters alienation and dread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

The production, directed by Diane Paulus, opens with Berenger lying slouched against the door of the town cafe, musing on his youth, which has given way to a sense of alienation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

By now, extensive talks with them and with hundreds of geeks online had given me some insight into the alienation rampant in geek culture.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

Thus far, both as lover and husband, in all their alienations, Hartley had been the first to yield; and it was so now.

From After the Storm by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

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 Jonathan Swift

We might point to the divided households, to the destruction of family peace, to the many sad heart-burnings and alienations that result.

From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes