Yet the merit of this formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness is entirely Shamsie's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burnt Shadows: Summary and book reviews of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.] Reference

But he writes and speaks perfect English so the foreignness is a bit of a mystery.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

For all the accusations of his "foreignness," it was he who understood where and how the electorate had felt shortchanged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home and the World] Reference

Thubron is best of the three at representing the sheer feel of foreignness which is at the heart of the enterprise of travel writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Light] Reference

Mr. Obama will have to acknowledge the "foreignness" of foreign lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News Alert from Israel - COP/JCPA] Reference

Yet, for Western audiences, the film has "foreignness" associated with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [LittleIndia.com Largest Circulated Indian Magazine In USA] Reference

"foreignness" does not actually occur in any compelling way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"true" Latin American identity, one in which any traces of ''foreignness'' must be purged.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

His foreignness had a peculiar and indelible stamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy Foster] Reference

I think that Tami was intrigued by the foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

| Reply | Permalink there are two "n" s in foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: The Economic Despair Many Are Suffering Is "Un-American"] Reference

Characters occasionally thrive despite their foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cartoon Characters] Reference

I can never lose my foreignness (and don't really care to).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marital Strain] Reference

Coping with the foreignness of Russia and the vastness of Siberia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calling A Dead Man]

Soras, like Betner, doesn't use his foreignness as a selling point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translating jokes into English leads comics to new punch lines] Reference

"Sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignness of your own body.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Novelist Needs Room to Grow-Out of Her Reliance on Gimmicks] Reference

This same foreignness, revealed in other ways, sometimes made him hate her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trespasser] Reference

The biologist they called Peter trailed along, impassive in ens foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

He’d felt at home in both places, where all foreignness was kept behind glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: House of the Deaf by Lamar Herrin] Reference

Indeed, she would have been a liability, her extreme foreignness drawing stares.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Time]

I attributed it to the power of his personality and the foreignness of the setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gangaji: Where Is Sacred Space?] Reference

Obama's foreignness has always been an issue of contention with the mainstream press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Laermer: Barack: The Non-White Candidate] Reference

And so they -- they did this as a way to irritate Napoleon, emphasize his foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It] Reference

She stood before me, looking down as I sat on the bed, patiently accepting my foreignness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

She responds with appropriate deference, noting his favor and her foreignness (2: 8 – 9).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth: Bible.] Reference

The taint of foreignness and terrorism continues to brushstroke American Muslim as "the other.".    From Wordnik.com.  [John L. Esposito: GOP Candidates' Viral Fear Mongering] Reference

Thus, as a child, she was exposed to considerable foreignness, until they returned to Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

Slowly, her lips relaxed, dreamlike as a strange calmness stole over her, a foreignness that provoked her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angels and Outlaws]

Yet every time we cross the Channel we are reminded in some fresh way of the foreignness of foreign countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

You can't politely turn your back on Bruno and you can't write his actions off to eccentricity or "foreignness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Bruno] Reference

How do you balance your attempts to be local with the fact that you're selling a product whose premium is its foreignness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [ on company's drinks to his taste] Reference

Not all the modernity of clothes, of manners, of language, affected what Arlee felt intensely as the strange, vivid foreignness of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

Boston Harbor before, and so we all plunged without fear or apology into the delicious sense of foreignness; we moved as those in dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference