Sentence examples for needs for solitude from inspiring English sources

DeWitt's story is also a finely considered essay about our needs for solitude and companionship and the point at which those needs become pathological.

A lot longer than expected!" Fancher's yearning for intimacy proved to be outweighed by his need for solitude.

Despite her clarity and lack of reticence on such matters, Price's need for solitude radiates through any encounter.

The strength of this layout is that it allows Mr. Holl to balance the reader's need for solitude with a strong sense of community.

Instead, with disarming sincerity, it emphasizes his capacity for love, the gift for fellowship that, somewhat paradoxically, accompanied his fierce need for solitude.

She has left her family for a 2 month vacation, as she does every year, because of her "growing need for solitude".

On a visit to an Anglican convent she meets a nun whose need for solitude had taken her to an abandoned cabin on a cliff.

It was also a period of intense personal anxiety as Kafka struggled to reconcile his writerly need for solitude with his family's expectation that he should marry.

However, he was also a man with a need for solitude, and for many years he spent weeks at a time living like a hermit in a cave on Mt. Hira.

They are pillars of sensitivity and understanding in a crisis, whether respecting the pig farmer's need for solitude (Amy: "What's wrong with you?") or tactfully addressing his drink problem (Lisa: "ARE YOU MAD?").

Sarah Jane Checkland's detailed depiction of a creative lifestyle which paradoxically combined a frequent need for solitude with the emotional support of a wife and family is a monument to painstaking research.