Sentence examples for on a solitude from inspiring English sources

When police encroached on a solitude riven by despair and lost hope, he jumped into the Hudson River below, and was killed.

In the atelier, there was a solitude bordering on sombreness.

Prospective PhD students need to be aware of what they are getting into, and of the practical steps they might take on an individual level to prevent solitude from slipping into isolation.

At literary festivals, writers carry on about the solitude of it, but really it is a ridiculous enterprise.

Containing limited dialogue, much of this neo-noir starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn stunt driver moonlighting as a getaway driver is a meditation on solitude.

It is a film less about discovery than contemplation; a meditation not on loneliness but on solitude.

A meditation on solitude is turned into an advertisement for co-dependence: Friday (Tongayi Chirisa), the kindly savage, is served up as Crusoe's sidekick.

Her encounters with doctors have particular ferocity: "I am nothing to you but a risk you chanced and lost – a broken little girl who exists on a diet of solitude and nihilism,/ whose therapists all gave up after five sessions of/my deflection of the pointlessness of their/neuro-scientific cognitive-behavioural training.

Grabbing at trees as they went, they eventually settled in small caves and crevices and embarked on a life of solitude, meeting occasionally to worship and pray.

Solitude seems to be essential for creativity: but paired programmers have no on-the-job solitude, ever.

García Márquez called this novel a "poem on the solitude of power" -- the saga of a nameless dictator inspired by Franco and Juan Peron, who sells the very ocean to pay off his country's debt.