Sentence examples for setting up a commune from inspiring English sources

In Dunthorne's Wild Abandon, idealist Don (family in tow) goes about setting up a commune on a quiet secluded farmstead in the Welsh hills, a haven from the doomed world.

Maria Eichhorn's projects include setting up a commune-style bank account in Japan and exploring the finances of the Kunsthalle Bern.

By 1973, Al had moved to Leeds (where houses were cheaper) to set up a commune with five adults (two men, three women: "loosely couples") and two children.

Set in the late 19th century, the tale begins with three men and a female mentor who set up a commune on Nantucket.

She has lured them to Nantucket with a siren song of "I know an island," and the four have set up a commune devoted to the transcendental life.

Cult Customer The island was almost sold in 1985 to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the Indian "sex guru" with 93 Rolls-Royce limousines who set up a commune in Oregon.

Buoyed by the Women's Liberation Movement, they had become so enraged by the idea of men's work and women's work that, in a spirit of correction, they set up a commune.

However, it's the road beyond St Ives that will have you in paroxysms of delight as you slip into Zennor (where DH Lawrence tried to set up a commune) and down a coastline with a distinctly primeval air.

First, in 1992 Volcano Lover, the fictionalised account of the triangular relationship between Lord Hamilton, his wife Emma and her lover, Horatio Nelson, and then, in 2000, In America, the tale of a Polish actress who gives up her career and resettles in California hoping to set up a commune, for which Sontag won a National Book Award.

He surprised a group that had set up a commune outside Nashville by not filing a story that described them as a bunch of kooks but engaging them in colloquy and saying to one of them, "I assume you people are trying to discover the pure state".

A group of feminists in Washington DC set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.