Sentences with phrase «very alienated»

But I felt very much alone and very alienated.

I am feeling very alienated by the travel blogging community, of shallow travelers.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

Being an atheist counselor lets you provide a unique mindset because many clients who are atheist can feel very alienated by a lot of the literature.

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

As good as DiRT Rally was last year, it felt very alienating even to someone such as myself that's played every single DiRT game from the very first Colin McRae Rally.

His images of melancholic architectural spaces and utopian landscapes with traces of human presence are often very alienating and seem to be fictitious spaces.

That means it's easy to mistarget messages, and that can be very alienating, he says.

Not exact matches

That's not just a betrayal of who we are, it would alienate the very communities at home and abroad who are our most important partners in the fight against violent extremism.

«In the short term, they are going to be very careful about not alienating any of their brand - loyal consumer but, in the longer term, will we start to see some more similarities?

If times change, or tables turn, and you are in need of help, you may find that the very people who might have helped you have since become alienated by your past poor behavior.

But he also evinced such open contempt for the news department (which he labeled â $ œFort Newsâ $) and current affairs â $ «the very lifeblood of the CBCâ $ ™ s raison dâ $ ™ etre as a public broadcaster â $ «that he alienated the beleaguered CBC staff.

It's ineffective because, in the process of trying to avoid alienating anyone, you very often end up alienating everyone — and wasting lots of time and money in the process.

We are in critical condition and running the risk of alienating for good the very few that still care about it.

By its very nature, B2B necessitates a style of communication that is more risk - averse, one that has the potential to cater to all types of people and avoid alienating or offending anyone.

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.

Jargon by its very nature alienates people because not everyone can understand it.

The first question has to do with Marxist humanism or with Marxism as a humanism: how, at the very core of an estranged humanity, are we able to rely on the hope calling us to a fully human future, when this project itself is nothing but the visualization of alienated people?

(Mark 11:15 - 19, 27 - 33) The patriotic party He alienated by refusing to deny the emperor's claim to tribute from the conquered (Ma rk 12:13 - 17)-- the very point on which the revolt of Judas the Gaulonite had turned.

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.

What has in fact been is that many have been alienated by a teaching that places believing very doubtful ideas about Jesus over following him in humble service even when that entails sharing in his suffering.

So his Texas baggage alienated him, ironically, from both the moderates and the (very) conservatives.

It has become fixed and immobile in the antithesis, rigidified in a necessary but alienated distance, and captive in its very victory.

The method itself alienates him from his very objective.

Recognizing this, I think the onus is on us as Christians to be counter-cultural by avoiding language that alienates the very people we're trying to introduce to Jesus.

Yet to live from that very different future alienates us from our own place and our present human companionship.

We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

He will revise this, why take a chance of alienating the Hispanic community who are very religious and Catholic during an election year.

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

Metaphors have lots of meanings, and can either speak to us on a very deep level, or alienate us.

Claiming that God is different from man and, accordingly, that man's divinity is something to be achieved, both religion and Hegelian philosophy have alienated man from his very essence.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Directly related to this, she did comment very briefly a couple times on the phenomenon of being «spiritual but not religious,» but seemed to connect it primarily with alienated Christians.

As Woolies learnt last year with its disastrous ANZAC campaign, and as ALDI is discovering now after refusing to heed the call to phase out caged eggs (as Woolworths and Coles are doing), the consequences of alienating consumers are very real — and very public.»

He'll still be a success and he will make a lot of money but he and Jon Jones are in a very exclusive group who have managed to alienate a decent chunk of their audience permanently.

In some extraordinary way, in a short period of 20 years, Bill Snaith has become a very fine amateur skipper without alienating his family or friends or boring casual acquaintances.

It «s very likely to alienate the parents from whoever is the messenger, or even from the entire team.

My enslavement to the pump — the belief that not only was breast best, but that mothers fell into two camps, those who could breastfeed (the good) and those who could not (the evil)-- was alienating me from the very creature I'd set out to nourish.

It may make you feel better, but alienating the very people you are trying to reach by telling them how horrible they are is a wildly inappropriate and counterproductive to getting women to choose safe birthing situations.

Liz adds: (The fact that she led the change against US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network particularly worries some GOP chairs who don't want to alienate Hispanic voters — a very important voting bloc, particularly as the Senate majority hangs in the balance).

I mean, I could automatically be alienating half of my fanbase right at this very moment.

Commisso's focus on his credentials as a lifelong Albanian may appeal to long - time residents and old Albany but it could very well be alienating to those like Sheehan who discovered the area thanks to the city's many educational institutions, or because of growing opportunities in tech.

«The surveillance program of the past failed because it alienated our police from the very people we needed information from, and it violated people's rights,» de Blasio responded.

Her personal performance is very poor, with a robotic, staccato delivery alienating her audience before the actual content of her message is delivered.

Very rarely will you find a movie which sets out to alienate its audience from the lead character and you won't see it here either.

Muslim leaders say it's this very nervousness in the government at explicitly criticising Israel that will one day bite us in the face with a terrorist strike by alienated and angry Muslims.

One wonders what he is trying to achieve with these asides, except to alienate the very people who will be delivering his message to the public.

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.

But the 53 - year - old attorney's combative and uncompromising style has alienated some of the very people he needs to make the vision a reality — even as it has earned him praise from Kingstonians fed up with business as usual.