The two begin what seems a happy relationship, but within thirty pages or so it is all over, and Jed returns to his customary alienation.

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He wrote few of the group's numbers, but his compositions often set the tone of alienation and frustration for which X Japan was revered.

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Britten's personal sense of alienation was a natural outcome of his life as a homosexual in a society that criminalized this, but it also arose from his views of a world in which all sorts of injustice reigned.

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There is no more powerful alienation than that of the displaced from his erstwhile peers.

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Moore's war drawings, which used pastels in contrasting hues to highlight the psychological effects of alienation and devastation, are almost as famous as his monumental sculpture.

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Neil has spent much of his life waiting for more of the same, meaning poverty, alienation and homelessness.

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If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young and enormously promising career, it's the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty.

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Basically his concern is that abuses of the parsonage allowance by religious racketeers will cause public alienation for a relatively modest benefit that can be critical to the viability of small churches.

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More commonly, it is read as a story of man's alienation from the socially adhesive forces of family and legal authority (and subsequently from his own motivation and desire), or as a seminal existentialist treatise (to Camus's exasperation).

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