Sentence examples for retreat itself from inspiring English sources

The retreat itself is not always quiet either.

(Only Vuillard, in his small, obsessive depictions of the home he shared with his mother, took retreat itself in a radical direction).

But the retreat itself felt a little like a cross between an Alpine and an Asian spa, with a dash of Middle Earth: a hobbity hole leads to the sauna; a slightly precarious path winds down to the edge of a waterfall.

Perhaps the Forum admires the emirate's efficient government because its deliberations bring to mind the clubby atmosphere of the Davos retreat itself.

Murad began to retire from Albania out of fear of losing even more men from the Albanian winter, however the retreat itself caused the loss of thousands of Ottoman troops due to attacks from local Albanian militias.

What doesn't appear on the website is the price – £2,500 for the retreat itself, plus £63 a night for your room, a figure that I'd imagine seems less galling after the Husseys have poked around in the embers of your romantic dreams.

And he adds that the reason the European crisis is so agonising for Germany is that the country has been able to retreat from itself by hurling itself into the European project.

The music didn't retreat into itself; it was exciting.

At the national team level, repeated failure reinforces a negative tendency for south-east Asia to retreat into itself.

We're seeing America's retreat into itself, with no more boots on the ground, but a reliance on military technology like drones".

When Mr Gul went off on a peace-broking trip to Israel and Palestine at the beginning of this year, Mr Erdogan said that Turkey was now ready to fill a gap in the region left by its retreat into itself years ago.In his government, Mr Erdogan wants idealists who always see the glass as half full, not half empty.