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Britney uses Auto-Tune the way Bob Dylan used his harmonica — for punctuation, for atmosphere, for an alienatingly weird sound effect.
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Unfortunately, consumers are showing little response to the tired, old marketing strategies on which the industry has relied for the past decades, and elite brands are in danger of coming across to consumers as alienatingly out of touch.
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These lectures drag despite their thematic relevance; they feel artificially planted and, at times, alienatingly technical, as in this exchange between Serge and an engineer charged with filming the sounds of battlefield explosives:
NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER EGAN 2010
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It is precisely because she hasn't conducted herself like an alienatingly controlled, self-censoring typical star that she has attracted so much animosity - so you can see why she is tempted to stop being herself.
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