A ruminative, possibly depressive man, he lived for many years in self-elected banishment from centers of power.
The only alternative being self-imposed digital banishment.
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Defying her order of banishment, she was again banished, this time upon pain of death.
In it he spoke of "tragic homelessness, connected to the ancient sentence of banishment", and of more commonplace, self-chosen exile: "secular homelessness".
Shame leads the accused to diminished self-esteem, separation from his clan, family and peer group — banishment.
And best of all, so many of the women saved their damn selves: Danaerys in the temple of the Khals, Cersei from all her local enemies, Arya in her defeat of The Waif, Melisandre in her banishment is forced on an unexpected path of self-reconciliation, and the women of Dorne overthrow the rule of men and eventually team up with a revenge-hungry Lady Olenna.
A crown prince, Vessantara was famous for his vast generosity, and, to the despair of his more practical-minded father, he accepted banishment to the forest, where he attained the ultimate self-abnegation by giving away his children and his wife and in some accounts even his own eyes.
Compare exile and banishment.
But a year-long banishment?
