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At school, she eats her lunch alone and, watching a fellow student, remarks on the variable condition of solitude: "He was in the lunch line, also alone , but somehow his aloneness was different than mine because he didn't look invisible, he just looked like he couldn't care less".
They were "alone together" in Gorky then, and deeply happy in their aloneness , though "people" still moved their glasses and toothbrushes round in the flat, and slashed the tyres on their ancient car.Andrei once persuaded her to ask the authorities for pardon.
When Gilbert howls to the universe about her solitude, for instance — "I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone" — it's a paradox: she's self-consciously performing that aloneness for hundreds of thousands of readers.
Not brilliantly, it emerges, as the two trade notes: Vanya has had a stroke; Masha, the liveliest if most tenaciously smitten of Andrey's sisters, shot herself aged 30 (shades there of the suicidal Ivanov); and Sonya has herself succumbed to what she calls that "endless tundra of aloneness".
In the first part, Chiquinho's home world is romanticized, which is a dynamic contrast with the second part of the story: São Vicente and the experience of aloneness and sadness.
Yet a stylistic aloneness doesn't mean loneliness, and we're very conscious of being one of the nearly three thousand-strong capacity crowd here with her, watching and listening intently.
But it can equally signify that the intimacy has simply faded somewhere along the line, leaving a sense of loss and aloneness.
Whether by accident or design, there's a sense of great aloneness about the Laura Marling live experience.
There is no sublimity here, no natural or man-made heroism of any kind, no demonstrativeness, no cranking up of the painterly atmosphere, no soaring hills or plunging chasms, no rushing streams, no man to contemplate the depths of his aloneness from some terrible peak.
While Joan is working at the bookstore, you see a shot of Kevin sitting at home alone in his wheelchair, eating a sandwich and watching football, and it's moving — the juxtaposition captures that peculiar combination of aloneness and togetherness that characterizes family life.
And, rather than consigning individuals to suffer in their solitude, aloneness may come at a cost to the community.
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The noun "aloneness" functions as a subject or object in a sentence, describing the state of being alone. It can also function as a complement , elaborating on a subject's condition. Ludwig AI confirms its validity as a word in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
