Service was an alien concept to its brute mind; violence made more sense.

Until 1995, the wild card was an alien concept to baseball.

Their facial reaction alone told me that this was something of an alien concept to them.

Hitting, in fact, has been an alien concept to them.

So it's an alien concept to view what you're sitting or lying on as an investment.

Time and life itself are almost alien concepts to 13-year-olds who can't think past the weekend.

At the time this was an alien political concept in Ireland.

That was an alien concept to him, not to feel hungry.

That may be an alien concept to you, but to me it is everything.

But more recently, running had become an alien concept.