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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.

Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

But this joke has a germ of truth with regards to the underlying fantastical and estranging nature of the Biblical text.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

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.

Gauguin at Tate Modern: the making of a blockbuster show Tim Adams 2010

But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.

Kings Hal Duncan 2009

But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.

Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

While watching it is estranging for anyone from a western communicative context, the force of the event and the focus cannot be ignored.

L is for Lockstep « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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.

A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed 2010

My son adores his wife and to keep the peace and avoid estranging him, I don't say anything to either of them.

Ask Amy 2010

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.

Monica Westin: Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show Monica Westin 2010

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.

Introduction 2008