Academics call it estrangement, but it comes down to the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: What Was the Last SF/F Book That Surprised You?] Reference
There is some risk of the de-coupling of Turkey, Turkey's estrangement from the West, said Ian Lesser. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Study Shows Turkey Turning Away from West] Reference
This estrangement is on all sides a calamity and a suffering; for it casts shadows where friendship ought to shine. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
In the protest marches on the Pentagon and the Capitol, students felt either scorn for or estrangement from the young soldiers who stood guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Draft] Reference
In other words, doesn't his estrangement from the English mainstream have more to do with his provincial, working-class origins than his Catholicism?. From Wordnik.com. [It's up to your knees out there] Reference
"Your estrangement was a great grief to my dear aunt," replied Victorine. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lord and Other Tales to which is added Victorine Durocher] Reference
Leicester; what subsequently aggravated the estrangement was his friendship with Essex. From Wordnik.com. [A Biography of Edmund Spenser] Reference
But if it’s not that, then it seems an accusation of general estrangement from the US as a whole, which is an even broader charge. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan, the Harvard Ban on Military Recruiters, and Anti-Military Bias] Reference
Nevertheless, friends said that the estrangement was the biggest regret of his life and he would often become emotional when talking about his family. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference
All imply estrangement from the Bridegroom. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
'Well, a kind of estrangement we had, about a certain matter.'. From Wordnik.com. [A London Life and Other Tales] Reference
Gerry Adams obviously had a very odd understanding of the word 'estrangement'. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
They are so many expressions of that estrangement which is at the root of all sectional conflicts. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference
A sign of reunion after absence or estrangement. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
That he, too, was capable of making a movie about estrangement and alienation?. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Ford’s Mr. Lincoln] Reference
The estrangement runs deep, is mutual -- and has in recent weeks come to a head. From Wordnik.com. [EUROPE: RUSSIAN RUMBLINGS] Reference
A face-to-face meeting often means the difference between understanding and estrangement. From Wordnik.com. [The Face in The Crowd] Reference
For now, however, the mutual estrangement -- and test of wills -- between Brussels and Moscow continues. From Wordnik.com. [EUROPE: RUSSIAN RUMBLINGS] Reference
The West Germans insist that their relationship with Moscow has not led to any estrangement from Washington. From Wordnik.com. [A New Germany] Reference
The Windsors appeared immobilized by royal precedent and their estrangement from Diana since her separation from Charles. From Wordnik.com. [The Day England Cried] Reference
This estrangement between the friends alarmed her, and she very quickly determined to put her husband on his guard against. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Hospital confession: Disconnection is the theme, and the estrangement of men and women, who rarely move on the same wavelength. From Wordnik.com. [A Diorama Of Dysfunction] Reference
And then would she always be there to compensate by her devoted affection the bitterly regretted estrangement from the husband?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To the married a bad omen of estrangement, possibly divorce; to others it denotes treachery or episodes of a painful nature. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
The estrangement between presidents and the press is particularly painful because the relationship often begins as a love affair. From Wordnik.com. [A Perennial Press Opera] Reference
The brouhaha marked what may be a new level of estrangement between the United Nations and its once proud parent, the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Strains Are Finally Showing] Reference
Sadly, "Naomification" is not confined to dressing rooms with managers and directors far from immune to estrangement from normality. From Wordnik.com. [What our footballers can learn from Naomi Campbell's tribulations] Reference
She has cultivated a fiercely loyal circle of friends who understand that any breach of confidence would mean automatic estrangement. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Child Of Camelot] Reference
And in this legend, Emily Dickinson retires into seclusion because of an estrangement between her and her, quote, "cruel sister-in-law.". From Wordnik.com. [Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy] Reference
We use it to talk about families who, after estrangement and even hatred, work for and experience the freedom that comes when they are reconciled. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road To Reconciliation] Reference
Tyson's life is a devastating mix of seething anger, loneliness and estrangement from his close business associates and his entourage of hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Will He Get Up?] Reference
One of my Sicilian cousins made a fan page to promote a rockabilly CD - songs about extended family sadness, estrangement, and household cat dangers. From Wordnik.com. [Feeeeeeeeuck!] Reference
But it would help end the poisonous estrangement, with all its larger political consequences, between America's military and our intellectual elites. From Wordnik.com. [Why the GOP Should Repeal DADT] Reference
America's artists and intellectuals, like those of the '20s, felt mostly a satiric estrangement from a government that extolled business and mediocrity. From Wordnik.com. [The '50S] Reference
But the party will sit in judgment on him first, and his estrangement from the old liberal-labor-minority coalition forged by F.D.R. could haunt him then. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
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