As Baudelaire put it, "wine makes men happy and sociable; hashish isolates them.
It did little else to loosen the "closure" that isolates each Palestinian village from its neighbour, leaves one out of two Palestinians without a job, and nearly two out of three in poverty.Nor did Israel freeze settlement construction, as called for in the road map.
Yet it is not as if this approach isolates China.
That was Washington this week, believing that the apparently impossible would prove possible somehow; and savouring in anticipation or dismay the thought of an escapist's artistry.A bad performer, like Richard Nixon, retreats into his cave when things get rough; he broods, isolates himself, and by giving the appearance of defeat makes defeat more likely.
Television, helped by those serpentine Formula One tracks, slows a car down and (unlike IndyCar racing where there are usually several cars in the picture) isolates it.
He sees light as a nourishing force which we need in both physical and spiritual ways.Each of the Valencia installations isolates a different type of light.
In 1983 my group obtained many independent isolates of a new retrovirus from AIDS patients.
The shift of responsibility isolates Mrs Arroyo from any political fallout if a deal is struck.Marcos's widow, Imelda she of the many shoes—has long insisted that her husband had made his fortune legally by trading in gold.
Besides, Switzerland allows the democratic election of any registered political party into government; the EU isolates and punishes member countries which democratically elect governments unacceptable to the Brussels elite.Switzerland ranks consistently among the top countries worldwide in open, responsive, democratic government; the corrupt EuropeanCommission was forced to resign in disgrace.
"Cosmopolis", released in 2012, also features a cocky young man deeply involved with his car; but it is a near stationary limousine that constrains and isolates him far more than it enhances his possibilities.
Sometimes this isolates Germany among its allies, as in 2011 when it abstained from voting in the United Nations Security Council on the subject of an intervention in Libya.
