Unquestionably, discussion was urgently needed, and Mr. Dillon was fully justified in emphasizing the mischief done in Ireland by alienating men's minds.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
But there is something profoundly alienating in his unsympathetic tone, his "preciousness" and superciliousness.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Yuen Yan is painstaking, and has perhaps done as well as could be expected of one of his shallow intellect, but the absence of suave and high-minded conversation cannot fail to be alienating the custom of the more polished.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc