Word: alienable
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...What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote, "one sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny men and cramped conventions of earth. She was typecast as the siren who lures men to hell, only to get there first; but her pained dignity gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch...
...Hatamiya, a Japanese-American attorney, has lived in the agricultural region around Sacramento for more than 80 years. But when Hatamiya decided to run in next June's primary for a seat in California's 120-member state legislature, most voters seemed to regard him as an alien. "They look at us as if we're recent immigrants," he says. No one seemed to notice that the local roots of his white opponent do not go back as far as those of the Hatamiya clan...
...history of Asian-Americans, Strangers from a Different Shore, Ronald Takaki describes the view that people of the majority culture often take of immigrants. He writes, "What is stressed in the host society is not the individuality of the newcomers but their alien origin, the qualities they share with one another as strangers...
...Institute for International Relations, finds that anti-German attitudes have become "rather fashionable among the French elite." The "climate of opinion," he says, is "moving in the wrong direction. We are beginning to see Germany presented as the new Japan within Europe. Japan is a code word for something alien, something non- European." He believes, on the contrary, that Germany is a "truly European power" and its unification will be a "positive thing...
...relaxed approach to an otherwise hectic life and consideration and sensitivity to others. I regret that the flag stirs in others emotions and feelings totally opposite of what I had intended and what the South is about today. Many people saw in the flag racism and insensitivity, emotions completely alien to those it stirs in me. Try as I may, I could not get many to even consider looking at the flag in another light, from my perspective...