alienation

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The prose Han deploys, at once evocative and elliptical, complements her characters’ inner torment and alienation.

From Washington Post

Hirahara’s cozy-ish mysteries are a Trojan horse from which hidden histories come pouring out — in particular the long story of Japanese assimilation and alienation in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

His message now as then touches chords of grievance, alienation and racism that had begun to emerge during Barack Obama’s presidency but which have burst out more dangerously since.

From Washington Post

Trump’s arraignment “epitomizes social divide, systemic alienation, and political and cultural decay” in the United States, which is turning into a “Divided Nations of America,” wrote a reporter for the state-run Xinhua News Agency.

From Washington Post

Dallek notes that “economic and demographic shifts intensified the far right’s sense of alienation and disempowerment,” that “deindustrialization” severed “white working-class voters” from unions and made the American Dream seem “increasingly unattainable.”

From Washington Post