Sentences with phrase «so alienated»

It's aimed mainly at children who have been so alienated that a judge thinks there should be a change in custody to give the rejected parent time to reconnect.

Children so alienated often suffer effects similar to those studied in the psychology of torture.

Parents so alienated often suffer heartbreaking loss of their children through no fault of their own.

It depresses me to think that many children — and even supervising adults — are so alienated from nature that they consider the outdoors to be an unpleasant or even hostile environment.

Why do some students feel so alienated and so angry?

He says it's time that we face up to some home truths about why Britain's white working class feels so alienated before it's too late.

«The left needs an independent voice, where we act and speak for ourselves,» Hawkins said, «Working people in this country aren't voting because they're so alienated from both parties.

The Police Fed has so alienated Home Secretary after Home Secretary that Theresa May, having faced this for longer than most, is now embarked on a process of threatening their very status and existence.

Concerned that months of tumult may have sapped Arizona of what he calls «want - to,» Stoops made it a point to learn why veteran players had felt so alienated under the previous regime.

Deep ecologists have pressed the question of why civilized human beings, and especially those in the modern West, have become so alienated from nature.

I've never felt so alienated from my own religious community.

Up until the past few week, I felt so alienated.

I felt so alienated from the evangelical culture at that moment, so frustrated by the way the very essence of the gospel was cast aside for the seductive temptation of «ridding the world of evil,» one dead terrorist at a time.

I don't feel so alienated.

I see that power at work in pastoral care for those so alienated from each other in faltering marriages that the one can only recoil from the offered hand of the other.

It can feel so alienating to get divorced.

When you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn - out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.

Some of the boilerplate curricula I was handed and instructed to implement while in the classroom I should have flatly refused to use or I should have at least advocated for its modification; it was so alienating of my students — a true disservice to them (I wish I could go back in time).

There was real fear of criticizing their content and so alienating any of the numerous constituents who had spent their valuable time producing them.

Rather than asking what we are doing (or not doing) in schools that so alienates some students that they eventually leave (or are pushed out), schools are often content with implementing «bullying prevention» programs or «positive discipline» initiatives that treat selected symptoms but never get at the root causes connected to problematic, unequal, unproductive, prejudicial conditions and relationships.

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Novice mobile users will feel alienated by anything too complex so try to emphasize a design that reads easily and functions as clear as day.

However, it could also mean alienating the community that has made Soylent so successful.

So, if you use the correct version you'll sound intelligent to the grammarians of the world but you risk alienating a certain percentage of people who will not understand your meaning.

Germany has sent out mixed messages over its relationship with Russia in recent weeks, showing how carefully the country feels it needs to tread so it doesn't alienate a neighbor and key trading partner.

Doing so means you'll alienate a large percentage of your audience.

According to Galinsky, the fear of alienating your opposite is «typically exaggerated» — that is, so long as the offer is defensible and not outlandish.

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

But if the company is going to start removing accounts belonging to anyone who says anything remotely offensive, it is going to be spending all of its time doing that, and by doing so it is probably going to alienate as many users as to which it appeals.

Because so many don't have a strong education, it's important to deliver the training in a way that won't alienate them.

«Then, when he was asked about me, he'd say, «Kate wasn't so attractive that she would alienate the female audience.»

StreetEasy has so far opted not to take the feed, further alienating residential firms that were already upset by efforts to monetize the site.

So even just as a negotiation tactic, threats on steel imports are risky and quite likely to alienate friends of the US.

The price also falls in the middle range; it is not so high as to alienate many traders, yet is high enough to attract a wide range or speculators, including day traders, hedge funds, mutual funds, swing traders and investors.

But in another sense, Uber keeps raising billions of dollars from investors to pay for its losses as it grows, so it can't easily afford to alienate all the big investors it already has.

Domtar had to be considerate in their choice so as not to alienate existing customers of their paper and pulp business.

With collaborators Danger Mouse, Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips and Tom Waits (among a few) Linkous refreshes his lo - fi sounds with just enough digital magic to keep it dynamic but not so much to alienate long - time fans.

if churches make their # 1 priority demonstrating the unconditional love of Jesus, instead of criticizing and ostracizing people who have a different opinion, they would not be alienating people so much.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

I'd like to also include an exclusivist who believes in predestination, so if I can find a Calvinist who I have not totally alienated and who is willing to participate, I'll introduce him or her in the weeks to come.

There was the Season - Five speech in which he told Peggy, in apparent seriousness, that he had been born on Mars and was a stranger on this earth — probably, Peggy determined, a cryptic reference to his having been orphaned in a Nazi concentration camp, so always tragically alienated.

We can pretend that we are all perfect and holy on the outside and that we never question our faith but I believe that alienates others more than when we are transparent and real... so, yes I think that this website speaks out against leaglism in volumes.

So, isn't it at least conceivable that whichever prayers that are said in these meetings are alienating other Christians as well as non-Christians?

Before we became believers we were Alienated in our minds, so what do I feel Paul is saying, that the Good news of what Jesus accomplished on the Cross on our behalf is the ultimate Salvation for its all.

And do I risk alienating myself from the Thomas Nelson team — which has been great so far — because I refuse to cooperate with Christian retailing, their area of expertise?

This has been so accented in much of Christian history and modern culture that talk of God is often very alienating.

For so long as consciousness remains bound to religion, it must exist in an alienated form, closed to the inner reality of Spirit by its very belief in an alien Other.

pastors don't want to alienate their bread and butter donors so they don't talk about the plutacracy.

They're genetically engineered to be fit for doing the work that must be done, and so nobody feels alienated by being reduced to a cog in a machine or anything like that.

So it makes sense to say that they'll remain alienated or anxious and restless in the midst of prosperity.

No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.