alienation

Another review said Roy explores urban alienation with "remarkable subtlety", praising her deliberately slow, observational style of filming which allows the "emotional terrain" of the characters to emerge with clarity.

A fan of sport, Selina tried a local female team but says she faced racism and alienation.

In 1972, in a famous speech at the University of Glasgow, the trade unionist Jimmy Reid said Britain's "major social problem" could be summed up in one word - alienation.

Having been dragged down by motherhood, a rocky marriage, and grief over the death of her own mother, Sophie enjoys Alex’s increasing dependence on her, a lone rock of support amid an ocean of alienation.

On the other hand, the core of the totalitarian mindset is an alienation from the world, and particularly from one’s own society.