Word: alienable
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...most reclusive countries in the world, North Korea has long been closed to even the faintest whisper of an alien idea. Yet when a British passport holder recently went to the North Korean embassy in Beijing and expressed a desire to visit the Hermit Kingdom, he was warmly received. London does not have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, he was reminded, but he was more than welcome to come in. Not only would the authorities take care of his visa; they would also confirm plane tickets, provide him with a hotel and meals, set him up with a guide. And since...
...fail to understand is the nature of a non-democratic institution such as the Church. Change is much slower in such a body; it simply cannot react to social change as fast as a democratic legislature can, so Americans often find its apparent resistance to reform to be completely alien. However, the institution does evolve to meet the demands of its people and is constantly in a process of gradual reform...
...organization engaged in morally questionable work in order to get closer to nature -- his own and Mother's. Once settled in the wilderness, he proves to be a sensitive and caring ecologist, tenderly nursing the land and its creatures. When, eventually, he encounters members of a culture that is alien to him, he is open to their ways, making no effort to impose his on them. Quite the opposite; he becomes an earnest convert to their life-style. When he finds a wife, he is exemplary in his gentle attentiveness and supportiveness as she struggles to find and assert...
Political succession by pedigree, however, by no means precludes women from brilliantly exercising power. For most of history, it was the only path by which women could come to rule. The pattern is not alien to the West, where potentates of genius included daughters of kings, such as Elizabeth I of England; their widows, such as Catherine the Great of Russia; and their mothers, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine...
...fully integrated into mainstream American life. They can be found in locales ranging from Chicago and San Francisco to the rural enclaves of Northampton, Mass., and Brattleboro, Vt. In Finding the Lesbians, author Janelle Lavelle claims she and her friends have "managed to find other dykes in such alien places as: a Liberty Bible College rally (the campus Jerry Falwell calls home); a Jesse Helms-owned radio station; a Garden Club meeting . . . and working in the ladies' wear section of a K-mart store...