Sentence examples for lonely study from inspiring English sources

Mr. Furlanetto brought aching expressivity and stentorian sound to the scene in which Philip, in his lonely study at night, is overcome with anguish as he confronts the reality of his life: a young wife who has never loved him; a rebellious, contemptuous son; subjects who fear him.

Now she was homesick, lonely, studying crazy long hours just to keep pace with the most driven teenagers in Southeast Asia.

He was lonely, studying law, and came across the Vegetarian Society run by a man called Henry Salt, who proselytized against killing of animals, vivisection in medical research, promoted vegetarianism.

For others, it might come from lonely hours studying film.

Julie (Dominique Labourier), a lonely librarian studying magic, meets Céline (Juliet Berto), an actual cabaret magician and something of a mythomaniac.

"I have got to show these people that I can beat them at their own language," a young Naipaul wrote home to his family in Trinidad during his lonely years studying at Oxford.

The novel begins in a basement cafe one afternoon when the narrator — unnamed but very Aciman-like in his résumé: an Egyptian Jew and Harvard graduate student spending a lonely summer studying for his comprehensive exams, which he has already flunked once — overhears a bearded, brown-skinned man fulminating in French against America and Americans.

At the tables are gangs of students in groups of two or five or eight, or sad, lonely diners studying and eating by themselves.

This he codified in The Lonely Voice, a study of the form that has since become a textbook in American writing schools.

"I'm lonely too and studying and cursing the day I thought: full time work - part time learning - sure I can do that!" weeps Kara Gone.

Back at boarding school I passed the lonely weekdays by studying a picture book of birds that I got one year for Christmas.