essentially alien

Examples (10)

• What is it like to live in an essentially alien culture?
• The concept of a nine-to-five job was essentially alien to the nomadic tribe.
• After his long illness, the bustling world outside felt essentially alien to him.
• To someone from the 19th century, modern quantum physics would seem essentially alien.
• The legal framework of the foreign country was essentially alien to our own.
• The deep-sea ecosystem, with its bizarre creatures, is an essentially alien world on our own planet.
• He found their social customs essentially alien, despite having lived there for years.
• Her artistic style, though celebrated now, was considered essentially alien by the critics of her time.
• The notion of sacrificing personal freedom for security is essentially alien to their core values.
• Their way of thinking is essentially alien to ours, which causes many misunderstandings.