So we were relieved to find out that the bête noire in question was actually a genetically-modified beast doomed to conduct his humanitarian research in secret from an isolated, abandoned apartment, much like Daniel Craig.
"Mice usually are not isolated in one apartment.
While she knows some of her neighbors, many of whom also moved over from the East Village, she still feels isolated in her apartment.
Mr. Vazquez said he tried to buy a $63 monthly MetroCard at the beginning of every month, fearful that otherwise he would run out of money and be isolated in his apartment.
But in this case, Sergeant McInnis said, it was not clear to the officers that Mr. Zelencic was emotionally disturbed or that he was isolated within the apartment until they actually entered to investigate.
Brie Larson plumbed her dark side portraying a traumatized young mother in the film "Room," spending weeks isolated in her apartment, immersed in accounts of rape and child sex abuse.
But the jobs are precarious and often don't last long; the women work on their own, isolated in private apartments, and their illegal status makes them vulnerable to unreasonable demands.
The truism that one is often alone in the city is borne out by scenes of subway riders and apartment dwellers isolated in the midst of urban bustle.
But discrimination has flourished behind the oft-stated ideals, leaving immigrants and their French-born offspring increasingly isolated in government-subsidized apartment blocks to face high unemployment and dwindling hope for the future.
It's the story of an ageing woman isolated in a Beirut apartment who translates great books into Arabic but doesn't publish them – another meditation on change and decay.
