alienating

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• It’s characteristic of this intelligent but alienating text, which works better as literary criticism than biography, that Bradford feels no need to display any compassion for such a sad, lonely end.

• Many social media companies have been hesitant to come out and say some sources are less trustworthy than others for fear of alienating part of their audience.

• Goldwater wanted to distance himself from the conspiracy theories, but he feared alienating his base.

• He seems to have done much more to alienate the other side, with 54 percent of Democrats having a “very unfavorable” opinion of him.

• Telling a new mother that she is hurting her child will further alienate you from her.

• Do the Republicans want to alienate important constituencies they will need in 2016?

• The President did not want to alienate Southern legislators whose votes he needed on his New Deal legislation.

• Further violence and escalation of the events into a civil war would only alienate him from the bulk of the Ukrainian people.

• Positioning yourself against President Obama is a good way to alienate the most important constituency in the Democratic Party.

• That may work spectacularly well, or it may alienate some users.

• A Christian who would attain perfection, ought to drive away from his mind all that can alienate him from heaven—his true country.

• In 1790 Pitt was opposing his wishes elsewhere; he was unwilling to alienate him altogether, and agreed to put pressure on Russia.

• Such cruel insinuations can never alienate from you the friends who love you.