Sentence examples for common loneliness from inspiring English sources

Denis Conway brings dignity to Blanche's usually pathetic would-be beau, Mitch; his moments with her reveal the one thing these two have in common: loneliness.

But Pell's screenplay shows that despite being so different and having actually defined themselves in opposition to each other since their teenage years, these characters have an awful lot in common: loneliness and incipient melancholy.

The boys are close until Clive mentions to Matt that he will be back in Africa by the time Matt can get the prints developed, whereupon both boys realize that their friendship is not one of common interests or background but rather one brought on by a common location and a common loneliness.

In his 200 interviews, Belk found that the most obsessive collectors had one overwhelming trait in common: loneliness.

A better understanding of a common loneliness.

What they had in common was loneliness, a tendency to depression (melancholia, they called it) and a tortured, guilt-ridden history with a stubborn, overbearing father.

They're present, too, in Penny Dreadful – a drama about a group of wounded individuals who have a number of things in common – aching loneliness, a cognisance of their own sin, and knowledge of a supernatural world unseen by those they pass on the pavement.

We had begun the journey that day, through the street-melting, shimmering green Maryland summer morning, as a pair of lonely boys with nothing in common but that loneliness, which we shared with Superman and Batman, who shared it with each other — a fundamental loneliness and a wild aptitude for transformation.

When I was young, most of them had adopted a common strategy against loneliness: a fleeting intimacy with their passengers.

But once inside, she learned a very different, and all too common, story — of loneliness, longing and adjusting to a new home.

Gail Cunningham, 64, vice president of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, also notes that spending out of loneliness is common in this age group and that the need for a connection can lead to "that feeling of generosity — to a fault".