Estrangements

The crucial issue for generic discrimination is not any epistemological judgment external to the text itself or the rationality or irrationality of the latter’s imaginings, but rather … the attitude of the text itself to the kind of estrangements being performed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite their struggles and estrangements in the past, Bo and Nora have an enviable relationship, and that's what people want to watch. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ptolemy lives alone at the end of a long life that took him from a volatile childhood in the deep south, up to urban Los Angeles, through two fraught marriages, deaths and estrangements, family ties forged and broken. ❋ Ilaina Edison (2011)

It is not giving too much away, I hope, to note that Suzanne Berne never unearths the Rosetta Stone that will provide the key to why, after Lucile's death, the Kroger family seemed to disintegrate into alcoholism, adultery, lawsuits, squabbles over money and lifelong estrangements. ❋ Stephen Birmingham (2010)

Cancer, job loss, divorce, estrangements between parents and children and brothers and sisters, financial ruin, fatigue, stress, loneliness, and not one but two tornados. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Through artful estrangements, the actual weirdness of life is recovered. ❋ Nick Laird (2010)

But these familiar sweeteners won't be nearly enough to reverse one of the most significant estrangements of the first two years of the Obama administration -- the rift between the White House and business. ❋ Chrystia Freeland (2010)

Throughout, we're treated to a few non-linear visits to the group's past, plus the main event that regroups the Watchemen -- Blake's assassination -- that triggers relationship estrangements and realignments, and a new call-to-arms for certain members of the old team. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Founders of the conference felt they saw the logical conclusion of such estrangements in European fascism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is an interesting family drama that looks at four generations of women with each having issues leaving estrangements between them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ali also remembered what Sister Anselm had said about the estrangements in families that made showing up in a hospital injured and alone somehow more likely. ❋ J.A. JANCE (2009)

The resolution of the problem and the fusion, the coalescence, the collapse, of these ... estrangements into the singular idea of "chips in the head which allow us to rip a person's meme-patterns and install it elsewhere" are inseperable. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

Over supper, he briefed me on deaths, births and family estrangements. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His ungenerous behaviour to his wife, for what she cannot help, and for what is as much her misfortune as his, has occasioned such estrangements between them (she being a woman of spirit) as, were the law-suits determined, even more favourably than probably they will be, must make him unhappy to the end of his life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in smiles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His recent behavior has left many speculating whether or not he has begun his push to garner the Republican nomination…something not long ago viewed as a long shot given his past estrangements with the Republican establishment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dick's style does more than move his plot along and insinuate the general cognitive estrangements that generically define science fiction. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[Pamela Anderson's] estranged husband is such a [looser] for letting that hottie [get away]. ❋ Luisjedi (2006)

Jessica thought her [half brother] was hot, but she was afraid to act on the [impulse]. Just so it wasn't weird, he suggested that she give him the [estranger]. ❋ Seagull Hater (2009)

[Mira] papi [this boy's] [wenis] is estrange. ❋ MaD (2003)

You still in [the friend zone] with that chick? Nah, even worse. I'm in the estranged zone. She only calls [me when] she's arguing with her boyfriend. Other than that, she avoids me like [the plague]. ❋ Doublestuff (2008)

To [stay safe] in the pandemic, never forget "Soap and Estrange!" Stop all your insane [antisocial nearing] and rely on Soap and Estrange. In 2008 the US [voted] for Hope and Change-- In 2020 we have to vote for Soap and Estrange. ❋ NeologianPJG (2020)

"I visited my [estranged uncle] of eight years- the lion taming [pentecostal] evangelist- yesterday." or On TV I saw my estranged jazz percussionist uncle asking a [Bachelorette] to marry him with the promise of years of flowers and tamborine solos. She said maybe. ❋ Someguyfromabbotsford (2009)

can i join [tec]? ooh can i can i? please please pleas? no, [feck] off [tbh] ❋ Angelfire (2005)

Him: I was doing a code [review] for a [co-worker] today and realized that he was working on the same code I wrote several months ago. I didn't really remember [the code], but I felt something very familiar about it. Me: It's a little estranged code baby! ❋ Zhunt11 (2017)

[omg] [zahra] you Perpendicular Estranged Retard ❋ Sajkmt (2022)