He was meant to be, simply, the man who was able to live without religious solace, supported by faith in himself alone.
At a time when it matters, more than ever, that he explains his core beliefs, we see that his core belief is in himself, alone.
At a time when Bachardy was intermittently deserting him, this was Isherwood's experiment in imagining himself alone and self-sufficient, which for the novel's hero proves to be intolerable.
But in 1982, when the boys decided to attend high school in his district in Northern California, he found himself alone in the two-bedroom house.
He also portrays himself under the mask of a harpy's face; in 1895, he draws himself with a skeleton arm, months after the first X-rays were produced (could he have known?); in 1925, he depicts himself alone in a restaurant, his face grown gaunt, with an empty bottle of wine.
And that's not to mention Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who eventually threw his weight behind the ban, despite having steered nearly $1 billion in pork by himself alone.
Anju has since died in a drowning accident, and Eiji feels himself alone in the world.
One night in July , 1964 the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents' New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled.
A few days later, Abu Ali found himself alone in a house in the town of Manbij, not far from the front.
The story carries him through Halloween and the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, when the trains shut down; in the film's eeriest moments, he find himself alone in an empty station.
In one delightful scene, the roundly reviled Malvolio, thinking himself alone in the garden, dreams of someday becoming Count Malvolio, husband of Olivia.
