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estrangement
1. Whatever the exact nature of their estrangement was, it seemed Hollowcrest’s promise of forgiveness had not alleviated it
2. Their attachment to Hitler had put the final touch to an estrangement that had begun before the Count’s death, and she had resigned herself to the prospect that she was destined to be the last of the Von Brechstlers
3. And for several years there was something of an estrangement between Jesus and his uncle
4. She really thought, after so long an apparent estrangement, in view of the fact that she and his brothers had shown the grace actually to come to him, that Jesus would cease speaking and come to them the moment he received word they were waiting
5. And this estrangement with Jerusalem explains why nothing is heard of Abner and his work in the Gospel records of the New Testament
6. This alienation or estrangement from our human essence is what creates the antagonism of the worker to capitalism, ‘be his payment high or low
7. What is often lost amongst the negotiations and saber-rattling of foreign relations is the reality that the underlying problems of global relations are less about real conflict than they are about fear, greed and estrangement
8. Added to the numerous pastoral concerns he had for his flock were issues associated with estrangement from family members who were still living in China, the financial stress of having made the journey here, their struggles to pay back transportation loans, difficulty getting jobs—especially jobs paying a just wage, language problems, and on and on
9. They give Aaron second-class status because of this estrangement and his failure to relate to them
10. On the contrary, when the bonds of love between wife and husband are weakened, and discontent and estrangement replace the former loving ties, and loyalty is replaced with a breach of trust, the ensuing negative emotions will then affect the children, and which will eventually filter through to the rest of society
11. It will be strong just as God wants it to be, and the worldly life between husband and wife will take its course without any altercation, disturbance or estrangement at all
12. Sometimes there is a deep estrangement between them, caused by the hybris of the I and its theomania
13. For a moment, after this, there was estrangement, expressed by silence, between the cousins
14. The estrangement between him and Margaret Ashton outweighed success in this case and even in the election
15. Peter was the brother he never had, which is why his estrangement from Peter was particularly painful
16. Few of us realize that in the moments of deep estrangement frustration and alienation is also an unparalleled opportunity to be bonded with divinity seamlessly
17. A few years later, after Angela"s affair with Helmi, my depression and our almost total estrangement, Helmi decided to open a branch office in Greece
18. age, and this also helps to overcome the estrangement from the fruits
19. Good Miss Pross! As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers
20. seeking the cause of your estrangement, may guess the real one?"
21. Her years in England greatly changed her, and the estrangement from her family further shaped her decision to buy a small home in Smith Square in London and to build a life there
22. Gibson, who later erroneously claimed that Rosemary was never mentally disabled but merely dyslexic, witnessed the estrangement between Rose and Rosemary
23. In the relations of the husband and wife the same estrangement still remained, but there was no talk now of separation, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the possibility of explanation and reconciliation
24. I am fully persuaded that you have repented and do repent of what has called forth the present letter, and that you will cooperate with me in eradicating the cause of our estrangement, and forgetting the past
25. For too long the fact of their estrangement had been public property
26. It was the third day of the estrangement
27. In the tacit agreement of husband and wife to keep their estrangement a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary
28. The same delicacy, pride, false shame, whatever it may be called, on Clare's account, which had led her to hide from her own parents the prolongation of the estrangement, hindered her owning to
29. His illconsidered marriage seems to have completed that estrangement from me which was begun by his extraordinary opinions
30. It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are
31. How does such transformation occur? Is it ever possible to pinpoint a moment, a clear before and a contrasting after? Or can the process of estrangement only be taken as an indivisible whole?
32. The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in regular order
33. She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand
34. Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary’s pregnancies, and this was such a time
35. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement
36. It was forcing estrangement into reconciliation
37. The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained
38. I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement
39. Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived
40. But Evgenie Pavlovitch was not afraid to compromise himself by paying the prince a visit, and did so, in spite of the fact that he had recommenced to visit at the Epanchins’, where he was received with redoubled hospitality and kindness after the temporary estrangement
41. The prince hardly knew anything, for this was the first informant from the household whom he had met since the estrangement
42. But besides the estrangement of men from the truth, there is another cause which hinders them from seeing the duty of doing the most simple and natural physical work; that is the complication and intermingling of the conditions in which a rich man lives
43. In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive
44. The girls did not share this faculty of apprehension, and herein lay the chief cause of our moral estrangement, and of the contempt which we felt for them
45. But what, above all other things, caused estrangement between us was that lack of understanding which expressed itself chiefly in the peculiar air of indulgent attention with which she would listen when any one was speaking to her concerning matters of which she had no knowledge