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
Susanna ultimately is freed, not because she’s cured of the alienation she has always felt but because of an accepted marriage proposal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Arnold put an ocean between himself and his family, but his alienation from his past has drained all the color from his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
Their illnesses may or may not have been exacerbated by social cruelty and alienation, they may or may not have been affected by access to violent imagery and/or lethal weaponry.
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
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
Hence in dreams and alienations of the bodily senses divine revelations and foresight of future events are perceived the more clearly.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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