Sentence examples for isolated self from inspiring English sources

In adversity, one needs something stronger, deeper, longer-lasting than the isolated self that has detached itself from its background in order to be free.

The stories set in this territory, about hunting and fishing, childhood play and damp weather, display a kind of sobriety and straightness that the San Francisco tales often don't; the narrator is an isolated self, on a bridge, up a river, hitchhiking home in a soaked coat.

The Mozart of this last technique is Public Enemy's shadow-MC Flavor Flav, who holds his head cocked like Stevie Wonder and wears an alarm clock the size of a dinner plate around his neck.... Bangs, you can see, is in his writing, too, but as a call to joy, a spur to escape the isolated self.

She observes that gender is not merely an aesthetic style or expression of an isolated self.

I would like to replace this recurrently hamstrung, self-defeating and mostly isolated self with the more promising image: the person in communion with other persons.

Personally, my creative process shifts constantly between social problem solving and visual problem solving — a consistent back and forth between enabling others and isolated self reflection.

"We're creating a new feudal system in Silicon Valley, where the 1% is isolated, self-isolated".

The only child, Murray experienced alternate periods of intense parental attention and isolated self-reliance.

Older women are often "isolated, self-neglectful and depressed as hell with no stimulus".

It prevents the theater from becoming isolated, self-referential and out of touch with the culture at large.

After seven years at Cambridge, Milton retreated to his father's house in the countryside for five more years of isolated, self-directed study.