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Estrangement in sentence

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Everything in "Dekalog 5" conveys a dreadful sense of estrangement and isolation: descriptions of a waste undergrowth of violence and folly, scenes of precarious conditions of work, sinister appearances of buildings immersed in an anonymous aura of desolation, aimless wanderings through disenchanting environments.
Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and her best friend Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) meet in New York after a long estrangement and catch up on each other's lives.
In the unmistakable style of Ingmar Berman, Allen gives us a dark, angular, muted, insight in to the lives of a family wrought by the psychological damage caused by divorce, estrangement, career, love, non-love, halitosis, whatever.
The film depicts a family drama of estrangement between a mother and her daughter, and the story of German women who staged a protest on Rosenstrasse to free their Jewish husbands from certain extermination.
Despite the high stakes, hopes for an agreement are low, especially given Iran’s increasing estrangement from Turkey.
In that doubled estrangement, reading and writing proved to be, again and again, a saving disease.
Of course, Europe has also moved away from France through successive enlargements, but the main roots of the estrangement lie in France itself.
President Clinton said that America “regretted estrangement” between the two peoples and said that “real differences” were no longer “insurmountable.”
While today’s quarrel is about who should pay for restructuring Greece, the real issue is the latent distrust between the two partners, which carries the danger of a permanent estrangement.
But the alternative is not just the hardening of divisions and estrangement of communities; it is widespread dehumanization, a tendency that current technologies seem to encourage.
But Europe is not alone in its estrangement from the United States under President George W. Bush's leadership.
Complete estrangement from the US in Latin America will not only harm hemispheric relations, but may discredit broader ideas that are closely associated with the US.
Others view the estrangement more contingently.
In Russia and the Western Far Right, the Ukrainian academic Anton Shekhovstov offers a different, but equally contingent, explanation for Russia’s estrangement from the West.
Wide scale disengagement from politics, however, is symptomatic of a deeper social estrangement.
This is not estrangement from ourselves or the world.
This conservative trend did not follow-up on the reformists' engagement with the modern ideas of the European Enlightenment, arguing instead that these represented a further estrangement from authentic Islamic values.
American leaders will welcome her election as proof that the estrangement in bilateral relations is over.
And there is the experience of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” in 2004, which failed a few years later due to the estrangement, incompetence, and corruption of its leaders.
Whether motivated by tribal animosities, an ideological rejection of the peace process, or cultural estrangement from Israel’s liberal elites, anyone who feels alienated – ethnically, culturally, or socially – joined Netanyahu to defeat those on the left who had usurped Jewish history and betrayed Eretz Israel.
As Henry Kissinger has often argued, the US and Iran have strategic interests that are fundamentally in harmony; what is abnormal is the post-1979 estrangement.
Moreover, America’s tactics, Krepon argues, heighten “its estrangement with Pakistan.
Nor is there any military estrangement between the two countries.
While he did not claim to have changed China’s internal system, he had in fact spearheaded a fundamental reordering of the superpower balance of the time, and consolidated the estrangement between the Soviet Union and China that had been underway for several years.
Because political intentions, not technical capabilities matter, NMD creates problems now: it pushes Russia into confrontation, heightens Chinese nervousness, and underpins a European sense of estrangement from the US.
In the decades since, both the Soviet government and the Russian government of President Boris Yeltsin periodically engaged in diplomatic efforts to end their country’s estrangement from Japan.
But membership in the EU does not mean estrangement from Russia.
The deeper cause of recent estrangement and national rivalry has been German reunification, which disturbed the bilateral balance.
But the current estrangement from Europe – the cradle of Russian civilization and modernization – threatens Russia’s identity and will increase its geostrategic risks in the future.
Europe does not benefit from this estrangement either.