Sentence examples for adrift alone from inspiring English sources

I was also adrift, alone in the enigma of space.

He dreamed that he was adrift, alone in his spacesuit, and that she was calling to him.

The kind of reformation Mr. Kristof is pushing was fairly successful in many countries in early modern Europe, but successive generations began to see its modest claims as merely banal, leaving its children adrift -- alone with their insignificant selves, a fence of rights and an empty sky.

Aloft and adrift and alone.

He wrote the most adorable poem, copied below: Everything is pointless, I am adrift and alone.

And, then, like his storybook counterpart — like everyone else — he sails into the world, adrift and alone.

(One of the paradoxes of Stone is that he often writes of people adrift and alone, yet the dynamics of long-term marriage are also among his persistent themes).

The mournful corollary Mr. Friel's play gently illuminates: People are far more mortal than the words they use, and a changing civilization may leave them adrift and alone.

The occasion of their paths crossing was a new production of a musical that calls on the talents of man and marionette: "Carnival," the 1961 show about a puppeteer on the midway who falls in love with a young woman adrift and alone.

Already neglected and abused by their parents, many of them felt adrift and alone in the foster system.

Our insomniac narrator is the living embodiment of the modern world's anomie, adrift and alone in a sea of Starbucks and prefab furniture.