Ira's inability to see the other people in his life in larger terms, or indeed as separate from himself, is a sin Roth acknowledges, but it also has an alienating effect.

Newman considered himself a Marxist, a philosophy which he incorporated into his therapeutic approach in an attempt to address the alienating effects of societal institutions on human development.

In spite of the eccentric formal charms of these performances, they nonetheless have an alienating effect.

Through the protagonist, Ellison explores the contrasts between the Northern and Southern varieties of racism and their alienating effect.

His work often dealt in darkly comic fashion with the alienating effects of American mass culture and the mysterious power of cliche.

Actors, directors, and playwrights may draw on alienating effects in creating a production.

This was held up in contrast to what was perceived to be the alienating effects of industrial labor.

Following Weber, Habermas sees specialisation as the key historical development, which leads to the alienating effects of modernity, which 'permeate and fragment everyday consciousness'.

Activists believed that suburbanization, the rise of multinational corporations, economic dislocation and the alienating effects of modern life had eroded communal norms against corporate greed and misbehavior.

The picture's mordant, almost ghoulish tone suggests Odin watching the failures of modern society - and its alienating effects on the human race - through a snow globe.