Sentence examples for great lonely from inspiring English sources

Then indeed we could penetrate the secrets of this great lonely continent".

Or just a mild distraction from a life of confinement; the equivalent of a child at the zoo, come to visit the great, lonely lion?

But Graham, it seems, won't leave him alone, and in this piece he explores a more fragile side of that great, lonely artist and her studied mask of genius.

The worst for me happened last November, when I ended a relationship with my partner of three years and left our dream home and a comfortable life in the Bay Area for the great, lonely unknown.  .

Here is that human snarl, Ty Cobb, so knotted with rage that he alienated opponents and teammates both; he may be the greatest, loneliest player of all time.

Which brings us back to that other, younger, bearded American with a baseball cap, channelling this greater, lonelier director via his "Stanley Kubrick" movie.

"These brave soldiers are of incalculable use to a great many lonely bachelors in London".

Had the skirt-chasing Roger therefore been one of the Guards who Ackerley said were of "incalculable use to a great many lonely bachelors"?

Had he been court-side, he could have serenaded her through her lachrymose celebrations with one of his great hits, Lonely Teardrops.

Like his contemporaries Mahler and Strauss, Busoni took an interest in Nietzsche, and the "Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music" includes an extended passage from "Beyond Good and Evil" — one imagining a "more evil and mysterious music," which "knows how to roam among great, beautiful, lonely beasts of prey".

I discover the next morning that it was worse, a controlled burn over the acres where dozens of the homeless had been living in a tent city, and I walk down to look, but it's all great oaks, lonely and blackened from the waist down in a plain of steaming charcoal.