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

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

With his family, the boy has the intense pleasure of intimacy, the family’s consolation in feeling public alienation.

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

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 Arthur H. Smith

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

Hence in dreams and alienations of the bodily senses divine revelations and foresight of future events are perceived the more clearly.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas