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

Experience in that kind of remove — comfort and discomfort, familiarity and foreignness — is travel in a nutshell.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

The product took a different path in the U.S. by downplaying foreignness and fashion and by becoming an ordinary American food.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2021

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