What is "alienation"

Usage examples of "alienation".

Separatists from the Church of England who, in the violence of their alienation and the bitterness of their sufferings, did not refrain from sour and acrid censoriousness toward the men who were nearest them in religious conviction and pursuing like ends by another course.

His lordship objected to the principle of the bill as favouring the alienation of the crown lands, and he asserted that it was essential to the safety of the constitution that his majesty should have his interests blended with those of the landed property in the country.

The mass institution of modern industrially based medicine, with its vast array of expensive machinery and industrially produced drugs seems to produce results consonant with the quality of civilization itself- mechanicalness, unfeelingness and human alienation.

Yet somehow, despite their busyness, Claudia was filled with a sense of alienation and deep foreboding.

Melancholia is a recursive, self-replicating structure: it continually generates the very alienation of which it then complains.

Whenever the sinner repents, reforms, puts himself in a right attitude, God is waiting to pardon and bless him, the sun shines and the happy heart is glad as at first, the cloudy screen of sin and fear and retributive alienation being removed.

And with so many familiar, comforting concepts already lost, Alice naturally begins to sense her frightening isolation, her alienation from the self-defining constructs of above-ground culture.

The fact that we cannot manage to achieve more than an unstable grasp of reality doubtless gives the measure of our present alienation: we constantly drift between the object and its demystification, powerless to render its wholeness.

His aim throughout this book is to show that when we establish conscious contact with our inner resources of creativity by understanding and listening to our dreams, fear and alienation give place to growth and compassion.

Soviet Union is a perfect society run according to the principles of Marxist Leninism with the workers owning the means of production, there can be no alienation and therefore no mental problems in the Soviet Union.

The alienation between man and man results in the loss of those general and social bonds which characterize medieval as well as most other precapitalist societies.

For myself, this only I see, that there is indefinitely more in the Fathers against our own state of alienation from Christendom than against the Tridentine Decrees.

Teds stories, John Clute wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, constituted a set of codes or maps capable of leading maimed adolescents out of alienation and into the light.

For example, many theorists, looking with justifiable alarm at the repressions and alienations that often accompanied the Machine Age, maintain that we should never have gone past farming, and there then follows a lovely and wonderful eulogizing of the glories of the "non-mechanized" and "nondehumanizing" agrarian societies, where few humans were alienated from the products of their own labor and the "Great Mother" ruled in peaceful and holistic happiness.

Men and women, caught in the subject/object duality, are thus alienated from Source and Summitand thus alienated from the Alland it is only in overcoming duality and existential alienation that men and women can find genuine happiness.