"Openness brings progress, while self-seclusion leaves one behind.
This self-seclusion was not unique in the region -- Japan and China also adopted isolationist policies during this period -- but Korea held out longer.
Self-righteous seclusion extended to the highest ranks.
For those whose lives have been turned upside down by criminals, psychological care can make the difference between self-imposed seclusion and guarded freedom.
Mrs. Gandhi has gradually come out of her self-imposed seclusion and is conducting herself as though the Emergency never happened.
Dogtooth, his Greek-language film about a family living in self-imposed seclusion, was nominated for best foreign film Bifa in 2010.
Now, after 15 years of self-imposed seclusion, she has returned as a ferocious critic of the Islamist wave sweeping the Middle East, and her courage has drawn the admiration of a younger and more constrained generation of actors and filmmakers.
Their cause: the liberation of the Tamils in Sri Lanka from oppression by the country's Sinhalese majority.On April 10th Mr Prabhakaran emerged from self-protective seclusion to face the press for the first time in a decade.
The article is also part psychological profile, looking at Ms. Profet's reclusiveness, which led to a gradual and apparently self-imposed seclusion – first from the academic world, and then from her friends and family.
Within the same decade, his wife's favourite artist, the notoriously irreverent painter-sculptor Bahman Mohasses, traded Tehran for Rome, where he lived in self-imposed seclusion for the next 50 years.
In an essay in The New York Review of Books shortly after J. D. Salinger's death, Michael Greenberg described Salinger's characters as being what Tolstoy called "aristocrats of the spirit" whose "quest is for an almost impossible purity that drives them away from the workaday world, toward a dangerous, self-burying seclusion".
