Kaspar has proved extremely popular with children with autism, even among those who have a tendency to shun human interaction almost entirely.
Basically, if you spend all day in an office in Swindon, it's perfectly natural to get a bit of an entertainment boner over weathered, horizontally mobile types shunning human interaction and, like Richey, spending up to six months at a time in the woods.
It took me a while to survey some black inmates, as both camps generally shunned any substantive interaction across racial lines.
He sought realism in acting, shunned self-conscious interaction with the audience, and insisted on a standard of characterisation where the characters were never aware of their own absurdity.
He sought realism in acting, settings, costumes and movement, if not in content of his plays (although he did write a romantic comedy in the "naturalist" style, as a tribute to Robertson, Sweethearts), shunned self-conscious interaction with the audience, and insisted on a style of portrayal in which the characters were never aware of their own absurdity, but were coherent internal wholes.
Those who shun the unemployed seem to view such interaction as an act of charity.
In social groups where a person's social identity and well-being are closely tied to regular interaction with other group members, shunning can be a very emotionally painful and effective punishment for those who violate group rules.
Nats often shun education and conventional employment, as well as interaction outside of their community.
His highly-tuned empathic abilities, vital for his detective work, have rendered him unfit for social interaction: he's all twitches, and shuns eye contact.
People in our culture tend to shun death and try to have brief, once-and-for-all interactions with the dead.
Continually talking to someone who does not welcome the interaction is harassment, even if you believe that their shunning is unjustified.
