Word: alienating
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...movement, if it really remain Socialism, it cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic Church, even after it has yielded to truth and justice in the points we have mentioned; the reason being that it conceives human society in a way utterly alien to Christian truth...
...Schwimmer, it was argued before the Supreme Court that the circumstances were different in the application of Dr. Macintosh. But all was to no avail, and the majority of the judges laid down what must now be held to be the law--that naturalization cannot be granted to an alien who professes the slightest scruple about ever doing military duty. This is the law, but whether under Chief Justice White's famous "rule of reason" it ought to be applied to a man like Professor MacIntosh is still open to doubt. New York Times...
Educated in England (Eton & Woolwich), preferring U. S. advisers, the King of Siam nevertheless transacts the business of his realm at Bangkok in an Italian setting. Like Dictator Benito Mussolini, this mighty little monarch has as his workroom a vast white marble hall, pure Renaissance in style, alien to Siam as an iceberg, but dramatic, breathtaking...
...acclaimed by the late Arnold Bennett as one of the most important American novels of the year. In "Wide Open Town", Mr. Brinig returns to the same setting: a copper mining camp, sprawled over a hill in western Montana, with a population of fifty thousand people, most of them alien...
...gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication." And it has its undesirable features as well as its advantages...