Besides performing various so-called magical tricks, Houdini was adept in releasing himself from almost any kind of confinement that could be devised.
The people out there who have been misidentified as being "vegetative" suffer a kind of solitary confinement unknown to prisoners of war.
The discordant monologues of the novels allow individuals to tell their stories, though in doing so they erode the bonds of family and community and end in a kind of solitary confinement.
Ziskind points out that the technology could eventually lead to a kind of solitary confinement.... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Ceridwen Dovey By David Remnick By Malcolm Gladwell By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Ceridwen Dovey By David Remnick.
Ms. Alvin grew up in a commune (which, on second thought, may have been a cult), partied with the Grateful Dead when she was 5, spent the better part of a school year in her bedroom under a kind of "solitary confinement" and eloped at 18 and raised three children in a cabin with no running water.
It seems to be a kind of silo confinement for each institution.
He also pointed out the different ways that Mr. Waite's and Mr. Newman's characters reacted to being locked in the camp's punishment box, a kind of solitary-confinement outhouse.
Of course, few writers seriously dream of a stay in a latter-day Bastille, though until recently it still seemed relatively easy to recreate a kind of makeshift solitary confinement.
A sexual freedom that organizes humans into porn search terms seems to trade one kind of confinement for another.
"Marriages are their own kind of confinement," she said.
