separateness

• “There's a feeling of separateness from the rest of the country.”

  Amy Greene talks about her first novel, Bloodroot, which brings her native Appalachia—and the faith and fury of its people—to rich and vivid life.

• “Her experience in the hospitality trade may have made her less fastidious about the company she kept, but her sardonic comments about her Irish "friends" revealed that a sense of separateness from the plebeian community already existed — a distance that was even more pronounced within the next generation of middle-class women in the area.”

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• “Our separateness is one of our basic themes in poetry.”

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• “I know this is dangerous territory for a straight ally to walk down, but I just feel that we are perpetuating the idea of separateness by announcing that one needs to declare what their sexuality is.”

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• “But we know from science now, if not from our own faith and spiritual awareness, that the notion of separateness is fundamentally wrong.”

  Jan Phillips: Toward a Cosmic Karmic Correction

• “I'd like to move past the notion of separateness and divisiveness," he continues.”

  Auburn McCanta: Arizona Officer Supports Obama for the cause of Law and Order

• “The effect was only one way in which Heritage reinforced the idea of separateness from the corrupt world.”

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• “The way Fin and the other misfits he meets form a bond is despite their separateness is the quiet beauty of the film.”

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• “The monism which it preaches, setting aside the idea of separateness between God and the world, also removes entirely the distinction between the natural order and the supernatural.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “And that was critical to me, because the opposite belief seemed to increase fear, anger, and a sense of "separateness" from others.”

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