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
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
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
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
All the train of alienations, suspicions, earthly passions, which exist in our minds and are sure to issue in quarrels or bad blood, will be put down if we have 'salt in ourselves.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
What, the alienations and jealousies, the discords and contentions, and the causes of them?
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
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