Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the
foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.
Moreover, he had a swarthy
foreignness of complexion which boded little honesty.
Rather were her words touched by a
foreignness so elusive that Saxon could not analyze nor place it.
Nioche, timorously, and with a double
foreignness of accent.
His
foreignness had a peculiar and indelible stamp.
The story of his conquest of Sindh as the origins of Islam in the sub-continent reifies the idea of Muslim
foreignness to the land, cultures, religions, histories of the sub-continent.
So long, farewell, goodbye, Theresa May-In the language of the European Union, whose pesky
foreignness brought about your demise - auf wiedersehen and adieu.
The mosque for him stands for various kinds of otherness; extremism,
foreignness, supremacy (through acquiring property).
Much of the alarm hovering at the borders, the gates, is stoked, it seems to me, by (1) both the threat and the promise of globalism and (2) an uneasy relationship with our own
foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging.
It is predicated on the notion of the performativity of translation, the Benjaminian
foreignness of languages which is untranslatable and irresolvable, catalyzes the birthing of newness, the concept of culture-specific universality, and the ethical moment of being for and respecting the Other.