Whatever it was that powered this machine, it was something profoundly alien to everything she had ever learned.

Hitler's pathetic, cynical maxim, "the German soldier stands or dies," is, to the Italian, profoundly alien.

THE touch of Galahad's mind was like standing on the edge of Niagara Falls-a great, pounding mental presence, ancient and profoundly alien.

Today's politics of goodness, of morality rather than might, are profoundly alien to him.

Racism is profoundly alien to both the high-literate and popular traditions of Italian civilization.

Instead, his effort has been to reanimate, from the inside, what must be for most of us the profoundly alien world view of the 16th-century European alchemists.

He was looking at something profoundly alien.

And all this expressed itself in a torrent of words, superfluous, utterly false, murky, profoundly alien to life itself.

Just so profoundly alien that they couldn't help but treat human language itself as a form of combat.

Saddled with that profoundly alien name, Gogol wanders through his coming-of-age in his adopted homeland, becoming a charmingly spazzy young man and, finally, an oblivious cuckold.