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Example sentences for: alienation
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It is a potent image of alienation and disengagement, a stark visual rebuff to Wang's life of chameleonic compromise.
I think the Hartford show overemphasizes de Hooch's praise of domesticity--clean tiles and contented mothers--while underplaying his 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.
A quick glance at my bookshelf tells that story: Alienation and Freedom , Class and Conformity , The Hidden Injuries of Class (brilliant, still), The Organization Man , The Lonely Crowd ...
The Standard advocates the establishment of a conservative arts weekly (suggested title: Alienation ). It won't make a cent, but even "two years of heterodox culture coverage could galvanize the New York (and hence American) culture scene," which is full of dissatisfied souls seeking only "a place to speak and an institution to rally around."