foreignness

How To Use foreignness In A Sentence

• Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
• The final damning evidence of my foreignness was my grandmother herself, when she appeared in school on those days set aside for parents to visit classes. Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
• Old-fashioned antiblack bigotry still exists, but today, far more than 20 years ago, white Americans are likely to associate dark skin with foreignness.
• Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
• Crashaw's Catholicism additionally associates him with both foreignness and popery.
• Stemming from the Spanish word caballero, it was meant to connote Catholicism, foreignness, and immorality.
• The extent to which feeling overwhelmed by brownness and foreignness frightens the few remaining freckled and tuna-fish-laden Caucasian children in the city away from the public schools is not acknowledged and certainly not discussed. Tales Out of School
• Is it his foreignness that disqualifies him? Times, Sunday Times
• It's difficult when trying not to make assumptions about the flavour of the language - Could the 'foreignness' which writers like Bede perceived in the Pictish attitude towards women be reflected in their language? Pictish female names
• Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings.