foreignness

Example Sentences

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In a blistering review, critic Sowmya Rajendran slammed the film as "generic, exhausting and offensive," saying it hides tired cliches behind an "exotic" Kerala setting and a score that overplays the land's "foreignness."

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

Still, indigenous spirits and ancestors were worshipped as well, coexisting alongside the Indian imports whose foreignness faded slowly over the centuries.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In a statement excerpted in the show’s wall text, the Finnish-born Konttinen notes that her foreignness meant “I could be nosy, and be forgiven.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

But amid the foreignness of America, the soldiers were just Afghans like him, lost and frightened.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

I felt Nairobi’s foreignness—or really, my own foreignness in relation to it—immediately, even in the first strains of morning.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama