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Sentence Examples This fine ballad on the solitude of a star who moves from town to town was made for a singer whose vulnerability was again, unfeigned. On many moonless nights, they have enjoyed a warm soak, watching thousands of stars, in complete solitude. Now she lives alone in an apartment with her four cats, a solitude that has led her to consider moving to a monastery. The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges. Bowing to criticism from various sections and ending her solitude, the zoo authorities have brought a companion for her. But when faced with gigs, the novelty of solitude wore off and the solo version of the album became his calling card for potential players. The group makes psychedelic music born of cabin fever rather than hallucinogenics, and in their solitude. They bring life to themes of solitude and enclosure with humour as clowns, acrobats, jugglers, dancers and off-kilter trampolinists. The holiday I'm about to describe should be taken annually, off-season, with large doses of sloth and solitude. In between, we get three deskbound duologues in which people jockey for status while revealing their essential solitude. Edward enjoyed the solitude so much that he and Marie began opening up their land to other artists. He would not hear of my attending the funeral, or going for a day or two, to cheer poor Frederick's solitude. With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives. The antidote to noise pollution comes with fallowness, allowing time for solitude and prayer. Copying the works of others protects the solitude of the monastic cell from more intrusive forms of ministry. Secular idleness would have little meaning in solitude, and the religious contemplation of the hermit or monk is not in question here. He died alone in the solitude of the Sahara Desert in his hermitage, as a quiet witness to Christ. Very young children often have secret hideaways where they go to seek solitude. Unless some other canoe is in sight, one paddles along with a sense of solitude amid the mountains and the woods. Show More Sentences It's time for him to have a chance in solitude and privacy to reconnect with his family. Just as the sun was about to go down, a slight tug on the painter ended my solitude. Upon receiving this recognition, he left the East Mountain community and withdrew into solitude. He urges us to identify with them and share their inmost hopes and fears, their solitude. For all their cheerful harmony, his pictures were painted in solitude, with perplexity and misgiving until he saw them in their completed form. His preoccupation with solitude also explains why Tsai's films are often very nearly free of dialogue. This delicious, melancholic vision both romanticises the subject and bathes the object in writerly, almost heroic solitude. It attains its desired measure of solitude and, regrettably, much, much worse. Among the dividends provided by the Public Choice Center, solitude to plow one's own furrow was distinctly absent. She prefers the silence and solitude of the field to the distracting quick pace of urban living. When I am alone, in the evenings of my solitude, the presence of this other shadow makes me feel secure. There is convincing evidence in sociological literature that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Deprived of others, free solitude, like the astronauts' weightless state, dilapidates muscles, bones, and blood. He also notices that the townspeople all respect Ethan's reserve and solitude. His wrinkles and laugh lines accented a face of solitude and sadness, and his old uniform was becoming tattered, its former blue colour fading. Since the Romantics, the life of the mind has been associated with solitude, anguish and inner division. Somehow, they have feelings of solitude and loss after leaving the working environment they were closely associated with for so long. She came to feel trapped in solitude, surrounded by uncaring multitudes who wrapped themselves inviolably in their own misery. I'm gregarious up to a point and then I have to have total solitude for at least two days. Australia's top fashion designer has left the material world for a simple life of solitude and meditation. Show More Sentences It's the usual grab bag of danger that one accepts in exchange for high-alpine solitude, and maybe even satori. By contrast, Thoreau's solitude gave him an observant intimacy with nature that enriched his relation to others. The feeling of solitude in the mountains was incredible as we settled down to dinner, wine and yet more schnapps. She thought, perhaps by slowing the process down she could delay the moment when her solitude set in. The way she mauls the sympathetic doctor suggests she is a victim of the solitude that afflicts all these characters. For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness. He would stay until he started to tire of the solitude, however long that might be. He was tormentingly tense and uneasy, and at the same time felt an extraordinary need for solitude. With a few drinks under his belt he decides to remedy his silent solitude by going to sit at the bar. He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study. Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw. Over clear pools, that solitude must bide, await your sowing like a holy bride, to cast off widowhood when you draw near. Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana. A week in the high desert country of the Wind River Range, with time for silence and solitude, sounded just about right. Here was a place where she could dream to her heart's content in peaceful solitude and study her scores without interruption. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude. Discover a private place of solitude and get in touch with your inner emotions and thoughts through body awareness. Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable. It couldn't survive the unforgiving light of the eighties, and sloped off to die in embarrassed solitude. As we pass Glenhead, we can think of writers such as McCormick and Cockett and savour the solitude offered by this deciduously wooded glade. Show More Sentences With the extent and inhospitableness of its spaces, it was a night of eerie solitude. The solitude was broken, bizarrely, by bumping into Michael Palin and his film crew working on their next project in the Hoggar Mountains. It had been the perfect place to work on his greatest inventions in complete peace and solitude. For a few hours, my kid was next door at the Nappers and I had peace and solitude. We have just the right amount of time to bond, tempered by long stretches that allow solitude and privacy should we desire them. It had taken only a few minutes' exposure to the pre-Christmas rush for me to once again yearn for peace and solitude. Known as Sufi, they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts. The warmth of the welcome is overwhelming given the previous hours of solitude. The lifestyle accustomed Johnson to the solitude that now forms his six hour a day, six days a week training regimen. At long last peace and solitude, she thought, tossing her purse onto the nearby table. This trance is achieved in complete solitude and yogis can enter into it or get out of it at will. All the attacks were on couples enjoying some late-night solitude in cars at isolated car parks. As someone whose self reposes on a great slab of solitude, such a situation would drive me nuts. A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers. In this case also, we are not really in a place of solitude or quietude, except in a superficial sense. Maybe you like the peace and solitude of the early hours of the morning so that you can get on with various important tasks uninterrupted. It tells us that God is, in a sense, a community of persons, not a solitary living in solitude, alone and distant. It is a creature of solitude, travelling alone, and a splendour in the bush. The rugged landscape and mountains provide a wealth of opportunities for peace and solitude and the water is clear and inviting. I could just drop out of society forever, never speak to the rest of them again, and live out my days in total solitude. Show More Sentences Even the sound of a cough might be enough to rid himself of the feeling of solitude. No doubt Einstein himself is in some measure responsible for this image, since, in later life, he reflected nostalgically on solitude, isolation, and creativity. It is, but why let that drive you to drink, solitude or round the bend? Perhaps some of that solitude and bitterness found its way into Alec Leamas. Potokar's poetry seems rather abstract, at times cryptic, but at the same time palpable and relentless in its attempt to fight despair and solitude. If we think about it, Mrs Woodcourt must be wretched as she remains, in solitude, at the southern Bleak House, thinking about the jollifications in Yorkshire. And sometimes when he sat alone in his dark house, listening to the wind shaking the windowpanes, he longed to be rid of the intense solitude that engulfed him. If you thought qualifications for being a hermit were a tendency toward solitude and dislike of civilization, think again. Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude. Here we see Heidegger critically pointing the finger at Nietzsche for his radical individualism, which equated freedom with a solitude that denied our worldly contextuality. The Dude is at his happiest when he has a few minutes of solitude and rest to get high and listen to whale sounds. But from the quiet solitude of small-town New England, Dr. Anderson would offer a soothing late-night phone call or Skype session. The boy seeks out the spirit and asks it how he can become a real bear, to which the spirit replies that he must pass three tests of great strength, endurance and solitude. Lord Paulyn insisted upon playing bezique in a remote corner with Elizabeth, leaving Diana and Hilda to languish in solitude on one of the Grecian couches. His up-tempo songs had undercurrents of solitude, and the ballads that became his specialty were suffused with stoic desolation. This time, after all the chat about non-events, undramatic behaviour and what seems like 100 years of solitude, the thud causes both of us to jump. It's a question of how you use periods of unplanned solitude. Within two or three hours' sail of Glasgow one could find an almost pristine solitude of purple heather and solemn crags all unprofaned by watering-place gaiety or luxury. Happiness is solitude, thinks the hermit who lives alone on his island. Yet we have a better chance of solitude here than on most islands. Show More Sentences Bachelorhood has long taught me that solitude is not loneliness. However people should know that loneliness and solitude are not synonyms. During her remarkable, epic voyage, Richards, who started sailing as as child in Helensburgh, had to overcome hurricanes, icebergs and soul-destroying solitude. For him, the broadways could be lit up like a sparkling diamond brooch but there is only darkness within and there is a certain solitude even in the most hectic urban bustle. After a stretch of dusty track, I climbed a slope onto a wooded headland, turned a corner and was immediately engulfed by the overwhelming solitude that is Lake Titicaca. What might happen if he allowed himself to leave the safety of haughty solitude and moral superiority, to love other human beings who are beyond his control? Today, though he loves solitude, he also enjoys interacting daily with the many saints, sages, swamis, scholars and writers who visit the monastery. Reading, which not only requires but creates solitude, takes us to the edge of inarticulate solitary experience in the company of other writers and other readers. It is comforting to think that his was a death with dignity and solitude. In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude. They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with. They were to become isolated to the point that they forged a new selfhood born of solitude, inspired by the type of atavistic visual symbolism that Purist painting provided. Look at eminences in the past, and what stands out in their childhoods is an animus toward school, a tolerance for solitude and families with lots of books. If it's solitude you're seeking, Rannoch Moor is the largest uninhabited area in Britain. Passion Flower features characters who, despite their varying personal demons and state of derangement, are all stuck in solitude. One report describes a Frenchman who went mad after two years of solitude on Mauritius. The infection does not spread from one to another among the troops, and barcoo rot affects men living in solitude. Night comes at last, and some hours of restlessness and confusion bring me again to a day of solitude. He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed. His photographs evoke the isolation and solitude of the desert. Show More Sentences Sennegon, Corot learned to appreciate the solitude and poeticism of nature. Director of photography Bernhard Jasper shoots in a cinemascope to capture the expanse of shimmering blue and solitude. Yet the gregariousness of the web only intensifies his solitude. Long divorced, he doted on his grown children and guarded his solitude. The flat was his domain until ten a.m., he informed her brusquely. He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude. She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star. His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wreaked havoc in the quiet surroundings. The tourist route up Skiddaw will generally be busy, but solitude can easily be found on the northern fells. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades. Another castaway, the Spaniard Pedro Serrano, was rescued after seven and a half years of solitude. But if you enjoy solitude, silence, and a healthy dose of skiing and snowshoeing in a stunning landscape, it's hard to do much better than this part of Wyoming. In her solitude, she is tempted by Satan to sin against God. Camping with his family, Jeff has caught a killer cold with accompanying grumpiness and is left in solitude for recovery while his wife and sons explore elsewhere for the day. He will reveal the eight pieces of music he would like to combat solitude but, more intriguingly, what will the popular author pick to be his desert island book? However, the actual processes of grief take place atomistically, individually, alone, in solitude, in the tiny rooms of consciousness of each of the characters. It is a stillness or solitude that is wordlessness before God. His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature, the psychology of solitude, as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. Examples from Classical Literature Its very name, too, seemed a mockery, dwelling as it did in that vast solitude. She did not wish to be unkind, but her one absorbing idea at this moment was of solitude. Cowley retreated into solitude, where he found none of the agrestic charms of the landscapes of his muse. In his solitude, anxieties about his patrimonial property added to the sorrows of the exile. I crave for the balm of Nature, the anodyne of solitude, the breath of Mother Earth. He wanted solitude, and he begged the islands of aran from the King of Munster. On an eminence, 'bosomed high in tufted trees', is a temple dedicated to solitude. The canoeist of to-day, therefore, will find solitude and shallows enough on either river. Onteora was situated high up in the Catskill Mountains, in the centre of a far-reaching solitude. This is simply the result of solitude, and has no connection whatever with criminal psychology. She leaned a bit heavily on the arm she took as they left the cuttlefish to his ill-conditioned solitude. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. Illness and solitude had done much to exalt and spiritualize Angus Hamleigh's mind. Captain Whalley was not dwarfed by the solitude of the grandly planned street. In this vast solitude there was something weird and eerie that shook her courage. Man is made for society and not for solitude, and solitude can only engender despair. What a contrast between the turmoil and devilry of it and the serene calmness of the all but solitude the ghaut now presents! We left in darkness and solitude, and if we were seen, it was chalked off as a guided missile. And would not every one be able to assign the reason why Clarissa Harlowe chose solitude, and to sequester herself from the world? His work, his days spent with crowds of homunculi had given him a taste for solitude and the habit of it. Show More Sentences Hence, multitudes fled from the immedicable evils of society to the solitude of the desert or the mountain. Then, to think of the solitude, of his nakedness, and of the inclemency of the weather. Every thing had the face of uncultivated luxuriance, and impenetrable solitude. He walked rapidly, but undeviatingly on to escape observation and secure some solitude for his returning thoughts. I have broken in upon your solitude, perhaps too unseasonably, said Theodore. His solitude terrified him, and he urgently entreated his sister to come to him. Through solitude this passion may be exalted into a frenzy like a nympholepsy. And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was! Grief and persecution had in a former instance inspired her with the love of solitude. Then he wondered if he had not grown spiritless and pigeon-livered in his solitude and loneliness. One must have passed two years in solitude to be able to comprehend these puerilities. Not that you can replace Hilary, but you need solitude to quell your pride. Of solitude, certainly, he was apt to get his fill at the Inn at the red oak. In the solitude of his cell, the angel of patience had been with him. When you reach the capital, first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do not resume your former way of life. The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre. The King hears the reverend man, with a companion of his solitude, telling his beads within, and meekly requests of him quarters for the night. Even with that, his solitude was glacial, and reacted on his character. But she was not a girl to run away from an intimidating impression of solitude and mystery. They whiled away their solitude by gossipy chattings over the wire. Show More Sentences It had forgotten that humans were harbouring in its solitude. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. Had their unkindness then really driven her to seek for peace in solitude? Steenie's unselfish solitude of soul made him every day dearer to her. But the solitude of the one is as cheerful and fascinating as the solitude of the other is dismal and repellant. These three statues form a most awe-inspiring trinity, as they sit there in their solitude, and gaze out across the plain for ever. The only reminder of mortality was a doctor's brougham arrested in august solitude close to the curbstone. The two priests went back to the garden, and phut was in solitude. When Noah John Rondeau retreated to Cold River City to spend 1946 in solitude, he wrote his journal for the year entirely in code. Hepzibah wished that he would pass yet more slowly, and befriend her shivering solitude a little longer. There was one consolation for Grace and eeny in their solitude. They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. The solitude of the Palais Royal has become a mockery and a solecism. In the desert, pure air and solitude compensate for want of moisture and fertility. The great centennial oaks of the forest which encircled the dwelling made the place an absolute solitude. Between Rede and Tyne is a pathless solitude of moor and fell. After the whirl of noise and riot in which the last two days had been passed, the pleasures of solitude and peace were enhanced a thousandfold. The place, moreover, in the strangest way in the world, had, on the instant, and by the very fact of its appearance, become a solitude. A solitude could not have been stiller than that group of straining men. Show More Sentences I laid it, all lonely and forlorn, in the center of the vast solitude of his palm. Up the bay and into the River Tamar we motored through a solitude as unbroken as that which rested upon the waters of the Channel. He, and the failing light and dying fire, the time-worn room, the solitude, the wasted life, and gloom, were all in fellowship. Wasn't there light in the fact which, as we shared our solitude, broke out with a specious glitter it had never yet quite worn? The Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude, and but seldom receives a visitor. His Memoirs close with a sigh for stern and inviolable solitude. Ivar found contentment in the solitude he had sought out for himself. Don't you think there's something rather tricky about this solitude, Flambeau? Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Now solitude and silence are worse for me than poppy and mandragora. The Wildcat boosted Lily back into the solitude of the linen closet. She knew something of the fatigues, as well as the pleasures, of solitude. It begets a solitude in a vast thronged assemblage for you and for me. The natural man revels in solitude, and wants no wittier company than birds and flowers. Now in your last one, on solitude, you haven't said anything very interesting, and you've made it too common and every-day to sound well. Hepzibah gazed forth from her habitual sluggishness, the necessary result of long solitude, as from another sphere. No remedy against it but in that torturing effort, and no quenching the after-agony but by solitude and prayer. When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my path. Marion had no confidants, except solitude, which tells no tales. Yet solitude and the picturesque cannot hold him for long, nor even the ardours of the chase. Show More Sentences The solitude I had found, the forgetfulness, of course, I had not. A sullen and periodic clamour of waves rolling over reefs followed her far inland between the high hedges sheltering the gloomy solitude of the fields. The stranger thus presenting himself was probably a person who, like Franz, preferred the enjoyment of solitude and his own thoughts to the frivolous gabble of the guides. The first use she made of her solitude was to take up the volume which had been left on the table, and begin to acquaint herself with the play of which she had heard so much. In the solitude of her own room she recovered her composure, and set herself for the first time to review the conclusions which she had gathered from the events of the day. They could suffer solitude, inactivity, and the horrors of a silence that no sound ever disturbed, but they could not bear the thought of being utterly forgotten by the world. Athanase was fond of this solitude, enlivened by the sparkling water, where the fields were the first to green under the earliest smiling of the springtide sun. He was turning from the empty house, whose reproachful solitude frightened him, when he was confronted on the threshold by the figure of Fairfax Munroe. Hawkeye, believing he had prevailed, soon fell asleep, and a silence as deep as the solitude in which they had found it, pervaded the retired spot. Next to this was a large apartment or hall, the doors of which he habitually kept locked, his object being to pursue his studies uninterruptedly in perfect solitude. At one of the central tables a very stumpy little priest sat in complete solitude, and applied himself to a pile of whitebait with the gravest sort of enjoyment. After this Zarathustra returned again into the mountains to the solitude of his cave, and withdrew himself from men, waiting like a sower who hath scattered his seed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of solitude? Words that rhyme with solitude What is the plural of solitude? What is the adverb for solitude? What is the adjective for solitude? What is the noun for solitude? Translations for solitude Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words solitons soliton solitary solitariness solitarily solitaries solitudes solitudinarian solivagant Soller solly solmisation 8-letter Words Starting With s so sol soli solit solitu solitud