Sentences with phrase «increasingly alienated»

From the time of separation to the time of judgment, the boy was increasingly alienated from his mother by the words and conduct of his father.

Count me among the increasingly alienated.

Minton took his own life aged just 40, struggling to cope in a society in which his homosexuality was both illegal and stigmatised, and in an art world from which he felt increasingly alienated.

Since stunning the world with the iconic twist ending to The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan has increasingly alienated viewers with big - budget misfires such as The Last Airbender and 2013's pitiful Jaden Smith vehicle After Earth.

«Bottle Rocket» then falls into a version of a familiar movie story, in which essentially innocent characters choose, or are pushed into, a life of crime, and find themselves increasingly alienated from society when all they really want to do is hang out and kill time.

Fassbinder and production designer Kurt Raab create a near future out of modern architecture (some of it still under construction), gangster - movie fashions, futuristic bric - a-brac, and more glass and mirrors than a carnival funhouse, and his camera is constantly reframing, moving around for a better look, or simply tracking through the increasingly alienated world of his reluctant hero.

As she hurries around her kitchen preparing the food for the fateful dinner party, a stubborn fridge door which refuses to close for her becomes an amusing symbol of her frustration at her atrophied and repressed domestic life, as she becomes increasingly alienated from her two sons and her emotionally - distant wet blanket of a husband.

In this Will Smith helmed autobiographical drama, Newton plays Linda, Christopher Garner's (Smith) bitter and increasingly alienated wife who works as a hotel maid.

This is the story of two lost souls searching for the shadow of love in an increasingly alienated modern world.

Louv believes «in the last 30 years, children of the digital age have become increasingly alienated from the natural world, with disastrous implications, not only for their physical fitness, but also for their long - term mental and spiritual heath.»

After rolling through Asia, Trump struck closer to home to comment on another country he's increasingly alienated throughout his campaign and the opening weeks of his presidency — Mexico.

And if that wasn't enough his marriage is on the rocks, he's feeling increasingly alienated from his 8 - year - old son, and after a blowout loss in his home opener, he discovers that the local sports reporter is pursuing a vendetta against him.

After the racial laws of 1938 and especially after the German occupation, the church became increasingly alienated from the regime, and the role of many of the clergy in the resistance was a heroic one.

• that Wissenschaft and education for «professional» ministry tend to be increasingly alienated from each other the more professional ministry is understood in an individualistic and functionalist manner, and that only Wissenschaft is understood to be «theoretical»;

At the same time, they recognize that the working class has felt increasingly alienated from the Democrats as that party has shifted from New Deal to lifestyle liberalism.

But what about my generation, the generation of American liberal Jews who feel increasingly alienated from old - world Orthodoxy and increasingly wooed by Christian denominations that are publishing position papers that redefine Christian attitudes toward Jews and invite us to dialogue?

Their children and grandchildren, however, are increasingly alienated from work and marriage.

Their acclamation fueled his sense of indispensability, and he allowed himself to become more and more identified with their concerns and increasingly alienated from the Weld administration, which resulted in his eventual failure as an appointee.

In these three vignettes of the church confronting the world, we are forced to think anew about what we Christians have to offer and how it can be offered in a pluralistic, increasingly alienated and empty world.

If Starbucks sought to create a new kind of community space in an increasingly alienated world, and Lululemon promoted physical fitness and yogic mindfulness as paths to personal empowerment, Luvo's social mission is even more ambitious.

To see it as Jacob would, a Jewish man seems to be riddled by the weight of generations of survivor guilt: He studies things he isn't interested in but are «good and worthy and remunerative,» he gets married «Jewishly» and has Jewish kids and lives «Jewishly» in «some demented effort to redeem the suffering that made your increasingly alienating life possible.»

Not exact matches

As Twitter's growth has sputtered and stalled in recent months, one question has become increasingly urgent: How can the social media platform become more accessible to new users without alienating hardcore fans?

Of course, this type of marketing will require a good deal of fine tuning — the last thing a retailer can afford to do right now is completely alienate customers with overly invasive promotions in an increasingly privacy - obsessed world.

All such religious claims not only attempt to solidify and freeze the life and movement of the divine process, but they foreclose the possibility of the enlargement and evolution of faith, and ruthlessly set the believer against the presence of Christ in an increasingly profane history, thereby alienating the Christian from the actuality of his own time.

Instead, I find increasingly within the animal rights movement and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated from the rest of nature the human species has become.

The citizen is neglected, and even exploited by a political class having ceded large sectors of sovereignty to an increasingly liberal and alienated market, while the spoilt consumer worries about his own well - being.

As technology makes jobs increasingly specialized, work is becoming meaningless, alienating and dehumanizing.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

On the other hand, should it exclude this growing and increasingly influential segment of China's Christian community, the CPC will only succeed in alienating a significant proportion of those it seeks to unite.

Accountability for the woeful run of form is now increasingly being laid at the door of beleaguered boss Antonio Conte, whose grouchy moods and talk of his team «suffering without the ball» has alienated the vast majority of supporters who cradled the Italian to their bosom last season.

NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik - Khan is under fire and increasingly being alienated by City Hall.

Strike action has been gaining less and less traction with NUT and NASWUT members who are increasingly concerned that unions are losing parents and alienating staff from school leaders.

From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.

Increasingly,» wrote Pulitzer - prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. in the Miami Herald recently, «we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth.»

Joe blames himself for what has happened, and his increasingly unhealthy obsession with the event alienates him from Claire.

Finally, early childhood teachers describe themselves as alienated from and lacking the supports available in K — 12 This is a fragile and vulnerable system that is increasingly being asked to ameliorate social, economic, and educational disparities.

Given that equates to roughly two - hundred - and - ten - million people, that's a huge chunk of the potential gaming market to alienate, especially in a day and age where this genre of entertainment is more popular than ever, and studios are becoming increasingly keen to get as many less hardcore players hooked as possible.

Sega meanwhile, had been confusing and alienating its audience and development community with a string of add - ons for the hugely successful (but increasingly dated) Mega Drive, and a wealth of promises about new hardware platforms that never materialised.

Baker writes: «Drawing a connection between the redrawing of political borders and the subsequent exchange of ideas among previously alienated artists, the exhibition theorizes that the surge of creativity in the 1920s and 30s could have been a direct response to the mingling of Russian Constructivists (who migrated west due to the increasingly conservative Soviet policies against the avant garde) and the radical Dutch conceptualists they encountered.

«Gutai Card Box» was constructed to emphasize the increasingly mechanized and alienated environment of daily life and consumption, including the rise of the soulless vending machine.

Increasingly,» wrote Pulitzer - prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. in the Miami Herald recently, «we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth.»

Otherwise you simply come across as the increasingly bitter and alienated old man that people elsewhere are describing you as.