alienation
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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
But what he also wants to confront are the elements of alienation that made the show—about an ex-spy in Kafkaesque confinement—a cult hit and a profile of postwar psychology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
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
It was 1996 and Brown had been reading Katherine Dunn’s strange, evocative novel Geek Love, talking about it in class, pointing out the enthusiastic alienation of its characters.
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
Not only were all alienations made by heretics set aside and the property wrested from the purchasers, but all debts contracted by them, and all hypothecations and liens given to secure loans, were void.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
An agreement such as is desired by the discontented would only intensify our alienations, embitter the strife, and protract the war upon subordinate and insignificant issues.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell
This is probably an allusion to the frequent alienations of the lands and manors of bishoprics in Elizabeth's time.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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