How To Use Foreignness In A Sentence
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Why ener this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult?
"There Are No Cats In America."
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This study introduces the notion of alliance portfolio internationalization (API), which refers to the degree of foreignness of partners in a firm's collection of immediate alliance relationships.
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John McCain has not commented on Rep. King's remarks, but I will say that this has been an issue that both - that both Sen. Obama and his wife have addressed on the campaign trail before, Michelle Obama most emphatically, saying that his name, the name Hussein, has been invoked to stir fear and anxiety about "foreignness," "otherness," and it's something that the Democratic party should not tolerate in this election season.
CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008
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Alfredson is Swedish, which may account for his detachment in viewing the film's setting as another country with three layers of 'foreignness' - the recent past, Britain, and the machinations within the Circus.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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On the one hand, the orthographical apparatus supports the supposed inferiority of black dialect as ‘broken’ English; on the other hand, italicizing Yiddish words underlines their unassimilated foreignness.
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The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people.
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You can be born in Swindon and still have that sense of slight foreignness, alienation and critical detachment from the society in which you live; a sense that is essential to being an intellectual.
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The fact of Madame Olenska's "foreignness" could hardly have been more adroitly emphasised than by this farewell tribute; and Mrs. van der Luyden accepted her displacement with an affability which left no doubt as to her approval.
The Age of Innocence
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In other words, is there something about the foreignness of China, the fact that it's a different -- you know, it looks different culturally, civilizationally -- that makes people more suspicious?
CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2008
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Mr. Obama will have to acknowledge the "foreignness" of foreign lands.
Obama's Persian Tutorial
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For all the accusations of his "foreignness," it was he who understood where and how the electorate had felt shortchanged.
The Home and the World
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Yet the merit of this formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness is entirely Shamsie's.
Burnt Shadows: Summary and book reviews of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
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This gambit, a signature feature of the show, can force the audience to viscerally experience the foreignness of the past, and when so used it can be a brilliant dramatic ploy — but only if the action portrayed is as de rigueur as the show suggests.
Mad About Mad Men
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But the fact that they were able to make their displeasure felt in a way that deterred further crackdowns is a testament not to their foreignness but to their newfound political clout.
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Describing Miss Banner's misfortune, Miss Moo says that ‘she grew many kinds of sadness in her heart’, an unidiomatic and somewhat poetic expression that suggests at once foreignness and aestheticism.
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What makes this phenomenon disturbing rather than merely curious is the negativity traditionally associated with foreignness in the Chinese mind.
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I just typed: "Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
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Through this absolutely staggering performance, Rule finds a way to show knowing and naïveté, familiarity and foreignness in almost every move.
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Next, throwing a few German words into the pot – Zukunftmusik and Uberwachung are two favourites – to dramatise its foreignness along with an obligatory reference to the Holy Roman Empire or the 1,000-year Reich, the EU is written off as corrupt, reckless and rigid.
Europe takes an inspiring leap but Britain has a lesson to learn | Will hutton
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Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings.
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The final damning evidence of my foreignness was my grandmother herself, when she appeared in school on those days set aside for parents to visit classes.
Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
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Old-fashioned antiblack bigotry still exists, but today, far more than 20 years ago, white Americans are likely to associate dark skin with foreignness.
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Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
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Crashaw's Catholicism additionally associates him with both foreignness and popery.
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Stemming from the Spanish word caballero, it was meant to connote Catholicism, foreignness, and immorality.
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The extent to which feeling overwhelmed by brownness and foreignness frightens the few remaining freckled and tuna-fish-laden Caucasian children in the city away from the public schools is not acknowledged and certainly not discussed.
Tales Out of School
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Is it his foreignness that disqualifies him?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's difficult when trying not to make assumptions about the flavour of the language - Could the 'foreignness' which writers like Bede perceived in the Pictish attitude towards women be reflected in their language?
Pictish female names
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Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
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However, having struggled with the nuances of the American language, I have found it more beneficial to adapt to my alien environment rather than advertise my foreignness with a pint of beer and a fresh rendition of ‘Rule Britannia’.
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Now, although Mr. and Mr. Bjornstam are hard-working and prosperous, they are still shunned, partly because of their foreignness and low class but mostly because the agnostic Miles has been "lippy" about the greatest nation in the country and the most perfect of its Main Streets.
The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
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Thubron is best of the three at representing the sheer feel of foreignness which is at the heart of the enterprise of travel writing.
Traveling Light
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There was this very basic familiarity - and then utter foreignness.
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The foreignness sharpened his wonderful gift for description, the intensely alive portrayal of character, what he called ‘the experience of the encounter’.
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Because even in Egypt I have never belonged, but suddenly it hit me when we arrived in Greece that my foreignness gave me freedom.
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But he writes and speaks perfect English so the foreignness is a bit of a mystery.
Undefined
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This sentence is an extremely problematic microaggression enforcing the perpetual foreignness of Asian and Latino Americans; that we do not "appear American."
