Example Sentences

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The discomforts of inhabiting a body can be as challenging to translate as ancient Greek, but Kang is fluent in the intricacies of self-estrangement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Today, as estranged royals battle over a wounded monarchy and the erstwhile Empire muddles through its self-estrangement from Europe, the question of how Britannia perceives itself feels timely, even urgent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Namely, the notion that treating labor as a commodity to buy and sell alienates workers from the act of production, causing feelings of powerlessness, isolation, and self-estrangement — feelings that ultimately lead to revolution.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2018

Every sort of faith is in itself an evidence of self-effacement, of self-estrangement....

From The Antichrist by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

This process of self-estrangement and its removal belongs to all culture.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)