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

In a statement excerpted in the show’s wall text, the Finnish-born Konttinen notes that her foreignness meant “I could be nosy, and be forgiven.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

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

A terrible feeling of foreignness suddenly rises up in me.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque