alienation

Example Sentences

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Dallek notes that “economic and demographic shifts intensified the far right’s sense of alienation and disempowerment,” that “deindustrialization” severed “white working-class voters” from unions and made the American Dream seem “increasingly unattainable.”

From Washington Post

He spoke a language of alienation and pain that only fellow veterans in his Facebook chat group understood.

From New York Times

His atmospheric interpretation aches with the alienation he felt as a child growing up in California.

From BBC

Both Sam and Ruth are embittered by loss and a sense of alienation, thus their shared tendencies toward self-harm — Sam with his suicidal ideations and Ruth with her relentless drinking.

From New York Times

To achieve this end, he elaborated a series of distancing tactics, or alienation effects, that were designed to disrupt the spell of the performance and expose the machinery behind theatrical illusion.

From Los Angeles Times