Sentence examples for the lonely exception from inspiring English sources

With the lonely exception of the Baltic states (particularly Estonia), democratic development came slowly and fitfully to the former republics, when it came at all.

The lonely exception to the silver screen's general embargo on images of Long Island was that sequence in "North by Northwest" in which the urbane Cary Grant was kidnapped outside the Plaza Hotel and taken to a mansion on the North Shore, where he would barely survive an attempt on his life.

Nowhere among the assembled nations (with the lonely exceptions of Bolivia and Ecuador) has there been national emphasis on "conservation" – that is, advocating less production and less consumption of energy and materials, less global export shipping, "powering down".

This trial, moreover, is a lonely exception.

Jaipur has reduced its stray population, but it is a lonely exception that overcame not only enormous logistical and financial challenges but cultural ones as well.

With one exception — "None but the Lonely Heart" — Cary Grant appeared to be content throughout his career to bring savoir-faire to pratfalls, romantic misunderstandings, and narrow escapes.

Twenty-three years later, the lonely figure of Jane Tennison has been joined by a thickening crowd of other women; an exception has become a trend.

The lonely deaths.

All the lonely people.

The lonely drinker looked blank.

The lost, the lonely.