"He was a little wistful when I was with him about his new public life, his presidential life, and its cost in terms of isolation from ordinary life experiences," said Senator Richard J. Durbin, his former Illinois colleague.
She would be very glad to receive letters from her scientific friends during her isolation from scientific life.
After all, the condition of the novelist is in certain ways uncomfortably close to the schizophrenic - the voices in the head, the isolation from social life, and perhaps even the idea of divine inspiration.
Its utopian purity, and its isolation from the life of the real city next door, are grounded in the belief — accepted by most people today, it seems — that the only way to create a truly harmonious community, green or otherwise, is to cut it off from the world at large.
The Amish still speak German only because they live in isolation from modern life.
The vastness and isolation from city life is something you would only think you can read about in adventure novels.
Until going into hiding early last week, the bearded, long-haired guru was master of a closed society of Aum followers in the rural village of Kamikuishiki--a Kamikuishiki--a Kamikuishiki--aof believers trainingits extreme isolation from normal life ecenterthe narrow confores of thundredsl fof the believersathatded as a chind.
There are some commonly held beliefs that aging is associated with increased dependency, loss of self-control, incapacity, ailment, social isolation, and disengagement from life. 1 Misconceptions about older people and aging are called "ageism", "gerontophobia", or "the elderly mystique".
Populations of microbes in the oldest sediments are estimated to have been trapped for as long as 11 million years, living in complete isolation from sun-powered life.
Isolation from their old life and lack of integration with moderate believers can only make that risk worse.
