Spark craved isolation, silence, self-loss.
His snub in refusing to meet Hollande recently in London was arrogant folly, but it satisfies his party's craving for ever deeper isolation.
The heroine of "Family History" isn't quite as freaked out as Shapiro once was, but she has some of the same tendencies toward depression and isolation, and she craves the soothing amber of the Scotch bottle.
This valley outside the town of Rebkong, known in Chinese as Tongren, offers the kind of isolation that artists often crave.
To accept it would mean living in the isolation that he claims to crave but resists with his continual preening, his restlessness and insecurity.
MOST artists crave the limelight, but Charles Ives often worked in isolation, his day job in insurance providing the financial means to indulge his passion.
America has for some months pledged that releases of political prisoners will be rewarded by carefully calibrated measures to end Myanmar's isolation, something the government appears to crave.
I admire the obvious external talents of actors and singers and basketball players more than the writer's drudging isolation and, karaoke daydreams aside, I don't crave the immediacy of reaction that performers chase.
"I think people crave interactive presence in a world of digital remoteness or isolation, but I also think using the internet as a facilitator of intercontinental and interdisciplinary approaches makes sense".
Sometimes the isolation gets too strong though, and I start craving human contact.
