estranging

IPA: ɛstrˈeɪndʒɪŋ

adjective

That estranges; alienating, disorienting.

Examples of "estranging" in Sentences

But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.
My son adores his wife and to keep the peace and avoid estranging him, I don't say anything to either of them.
But this joke has a germ of truth with regards to the underlying fantastical and estranging nature of the Biblical text.
While watching it is estranging for anyone from a western communicative context, the force of the event and the focus cannot be ignored.
My 'good-natured friends' now carefully informed me of the multitude of secret enemies who were ever employed in estranging the Prince's mind from me.
In the course of attaining an education and exploring the world more broadly, I was in some ways estranging myself from the people I'd loved and known best in my life.
Yet naming the power is rather beside the point, for what seems to mark the Romantic encounter with it differently is this power's psychologically estranging and gothic effects.
Where the privileged white cube of the gallery is estranging and alienating to most of us, providing only pseudo-access into the art world, museums are recasting themselves as machines of democracy, in an uncanny but decidedly more benign parallel to the spread of world-wide democracy that Western globalization claims to bring with it.
She is excited too, though, of course, by the sudden flash of orange on the corner of a painting made in Brittany that prefigures his gorgeous, haunted Tahitian palette, or by the insistent presence, on a table, of Gauguin's own beer mug, a sturdy Scandinavian vessel that looks like it holds three pints, and which features in a curious and estranging portrait of his sleeping daughter.

estranging

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