With the horrors of Grenfell Tower still fresh in the minds of so many Londoners, and the horrors of a Christmas spent alone or isolated a looming reality for over 350,000 of us, it seemed an apposite time to visit Sky City: to walk the corridors, meet the women living alone, speak to the residents about bins, bodies and demolition.
The looming legal threats are not isolated to the bank's mortgage business.
An exemplary model of neoclassical architecture, King used The Stanley's isolated position, large, looming hallways and grand period features as fodder for his fictional Overlook Hotel (the Kubrick film adaptation plays on continual loop in all guest rooms).
The Getty was in turmoil, and no one seemed to want to deal with True's looming trial; she found herself increasingly isolated from the museum administration.
It is still hard to know how to deal with a single event that looms so large and yet was so isolated.
For many years, Newport was a series of isolated residential and commercial towers looming over a lot of vacant land.
Every half mile or so, isolated forts straight from old foreign legion movies loomed out of the desert, fluttering YPG flags or banners emblazoned with the portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader still imprisoned in Turkey on terrorism charges.
In Fear follows a young couple (Englert and Iain De Caestecker) who, driving to an isolated country hotel, find themselves lost in a labyrinth of narrow roads and looming trees.
I felt so deliciously isolated then, away from everything, and the higher the plane climbs and the nearer the clutter of Bristol's streets looms, the more I long to go back.
