The material effect of being so isolated is that information is reordered around the reality they can't escape: everybody has to care what the Hamas military guy says; his speech is analysed late into the night by groups huddled over cigarettes.
Instead they huddled in the tunnel, whispering conspiratorially.
On one patch of ground in Kathmandu, three children huddled under a blanket.
Last month, amidst a severe lightning storm during the Honda Classic golf tournament in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a dozen caddies huddled at the back of an exposed, three-sided metal tent, trying not to get wet and hoping they hadn't just made the stupidest decision of their lives.
With all but one of those suspended during the trials still waiting to hear whether they will ever get their jobs back, Rupert Murdoch, his News Corp boss Robert Thomson and Rebekah Brooks have been huddled in meetings at the group's mini-Shard offices.
There was much talk of the 15 Wainwrights of that week; only 199 to go before I'm 70! Stephen Bibby What could compensate for being lashed by incessant Scottish precipitation for an entire day, huddled in the cockpit of a sailboat dressed like an Atlantic trawlerman on an almost windless day?
They aren't hard to spot: hanging around in the Sicilian countryside, huddled at the railway stations of middle Europe, mustering in the cafes of Athens or in the ghettoes of Amsterdam or Stockholm.
I'm watching the band play on a monitor from the room next door, huddled with other technicians out of shot.
My friends and I would sit huddled in the skate park by the new Starbucks, trying to pretend that we liked smoking, lattes, and skating.
As news of his death filtered out of the maximum security prison, his family was still huddled in an area of the prison grounds, surrounded by well-wishers.
Three days later their bodies were found huddled together, having frozen to death.
