It wasn't just the scars and the baldness and the imposed isolation.
In a report last week, Amnesty International said Turkey imposed isolation regimes in the new small-cell prisons, with inmates often going days with no human contact except with guards.
"Having a child who goes to prison frequently imposes isolation," Solomon observes, in his study both of parents of criminals and of the familial lure of gang life.
In spending her twilight years in imposed isolation, and with little prospect of returning to her hometown, Kanno, 78, is far from alone among the estimated 120,000 people from the Fukushima area who continue to live in nuclear limbo.
In her grim years of imposed isolation, under house arrest in Rangoon, Aung San Suu Kyi may not have fully understood the extent to which she had become a global democratic symbol, long before the word viral took on its modern, digital meaning.
Isn't an all-African show yet another example of how the global — that is, Western — market espouses diversity but insists on separation, imposes isolation in the form of acceptance?
As an exile who was afforded the highest "protection," he was allowed to work in the local theatre and radio station, but the imposed isolation from his milieu was increasingly difficult to bear.
In the title essay, Franzen goes off to an island in the South Pacific Ocean to bird-watch, to recoup his sense of identity after a grueling, boring book tour — and to allow himself to feel, by imposed isolation, the fullness of grief that he had been keeping at bay.
To prevent a self imposed isolation from their friends, we need automatic method for detecting spoilers from TV program tweets.
