Example sentences for: alienation

How can you use “alienation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Figgis shoots all this through windows to make the couple's alienation palpable.

  • I think the Hartford show overemphasizes de Hooch's praise of domesticity--clean tiles and contented mothers--while underplaying his alienation.

  • Late at night, Wade drinks and holds forth on his suspicions in a low rasp over the phone to his younger brother, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), a Boston academic who subtly feeds the flames of Wade's alienation.

  • Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.

  • She's , for instance, that until recently, men who wrote about alienation stood a decent chance of being taken seriously by critics, while a whole genre of social novels written by women got pooh-poohed as earnest and sentimental.


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