For the people of Hong Kong, both languages are equally alien, the speech of their rulers.

The package of body and mind that came before is a stranger to you now, and the one that might arise after your death is equally alien.

They were equally different, equally alien.

Alien runes worked into equally alien metal took life in the light and writhed, though it was only an illusion... or so I've always maintained.

His friend's voice tugged him back to the equally alien world of his virtual house.

And up into a landscape, a desert in which grew many strange plants, while overhead could be seen a land of snow and mountains, equally alien.

A formal garden surrounded it, whose paths and topiaries were of equally alien outline; fountains sprang in intricate patterns.

After a moment it ceased, then spoke anew in an equally alien tongue.

For one thing, it's not as if British audiences turn their noses up at hip-hop, which you could argue stems from a culture equally alien.

A golden finger ring was equally alien in its workmanship, a snake that bit its tail.