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It is true that urban living can be isolating in any big city.
Although Fishers Island bustles with 2,500 people during the summer, it is isolating in the cold months, when the population shrinks to just 250.
It was terribly isolating in many ways – I was unable to work or go out – but I wasn't comfortable with company.
Instead, Bishop was parcelled between aunts, an anxious child who, as a student at the liberal women-only Smith College, in Massachusetts, gratefully discovered the use of alcohol as a social lubricant, not realising until too late that it was also a potent source of shame, isolating in its own right.
By the same token, the social pressures visited on Anshel, Avigdor and Hadass (Vera Felice), the woman whom they both love (and finally both marry) are exquisitely keen and isolating in the short story; on the stage, they are illustrated with the kind of petty, gossipy behavior of townspeople that is easy stage code.
The marathon is so isolating in its training, so impossibly fast at the elite level, so restricting to two performances a year for most top runners, that many athletes seek a purpose larger than themselves, something to believe in more than the numbing miles of roadwork.
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The place is isolated in the extreme.
Everybody was isolated in their closeup.
HIV was first isolated in 1983.
It was first isolated in 1934.
Nor is Frassoni isolated in her interest.
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