alienation

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

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

Written with clear compassion and boasting a robust performance by Lili Taylor, “I Shot Andy Warhol” portrays Solanas as a product of modern alienation.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

The anonymity and alienation of big-city life makes people hard and unfeeling.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

The purchasers under these alienations had occasion for labourers; and these would be free servants in respect of such employers, though in villenage to their original lord.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

An edict of the king's had revoked all the graces and alienations of domains granted by his father.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black