It takes talent to produce grotesque characters who are entirely hideous and, at the same time, sufficiently engaging not to alienate an audience.

The coalition says that such laws would alienate their audience.

Just as a footballer can alienate your audience, so politicians split opinion.

Yet television networks quickly real-ised they could not afford to alienate an audience of millions of mostly young people who are increasingly abandoning television for the internet.

A fourth theory was that the finale had the potential to alienate the audience.

His performance recently has been a master class in how to alienate people.

Will he alienate people that he considers to be friends, as well as his flock?

Actively curtailing any topic of conversation at work only serves to alienate people, including those who actually want to communicate with each other.

The stunt may only help further alienate people.

We don't need to dilute our message, but we do need to consider if our approach will just alienate people.

He will have to stabilise a bank that has not only alienated the public but also its shareholders — or at least some of them.

They doubt it would ever happen in this country, anyway, for fear of alienating the public.

She has lived life on her terms without alienating the public.

Some presidential supporters have expressed fears that they risk alienating the public with potentially unpopular reforms ahead of municipal elections next spring.

While joy-riding kept the public air-minded it risked alienating the public because fares were very high even for short flights.

It's a safe seat, but his spin doctors worry that the knighthood may alienate voters.

A return to the tactics of the 1980s would alienate voters and 'add to the book of historic union failures'.

Now, however, there has been a sharp return to negative messages that some pollsters believe only alienate voters further.

It was a dignified farewell, in stark contrast to his two and a half years in office, during which he often managed to alienate voters with his smugness.

It's a safe seat, but his spin doctors worry that the knighthood may alienate voters.

She argued that an 'austerity year' would not only risk alienating audiences but would be a temporary fix to a permanently reduced budget.

Why, they reason, would they want to risk alienating customers by expressing a strident view?

We risk alienating a significant proportion of the workforce if we don't redress the balance a little.

Critics have said that the orders risk alienating the communities upon which officers depend for intelligence.

With the government committing to at least a million new homes this parliament, it would take a brave prime minister to risk alienating private developers.