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to reclusive

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Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.

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TOKYO — International television crews were invited to reclusive North Korea on Friday to witness the destruction of the cooling tower at the country's main nuclear weapons plant.

Opening in 1941 at an engagement party at the Bouvier's mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical Grey Gardens tracks the progression of the lives of Edith and Edie Bouvier as they move from being American aristocrats to reclusive social outcasts, living in such squalid conditions in a home so overrun by cats that the Health Department deemed the mansion 'unfit for human habitation'.

Over the years, say friends and family, Joe Nahmad changed, from outgoing and extravagant to reclusive.

The gruesome details would captivate people all over the world, and aggressive requests for interviews would drive my friends and I to reclusive tendencies beyond the immense grief we were already dealing with.

One such is 23 Beulah Grove, where everybody – from Collette with her holdall full of someone else's cash, to reclusive classical music lover Gerard – has something to hide, and where something is very wrong with the drains.

There's no question that Levental's debut is out of the ordinary: a postmodern bildungsroman that charts Masha's transformation from awkward provincial girl to reclusive international arthouse film-maker, all the while tallying up the emotional cost exacted from her along the way.

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The terse statement also attempted to interpret how Russia, which along with China is a vital trading partner to the reclusive country, might respond to the missile launch.

The gray fox, native to America, reclusive and skittish, refused to play along.

On Tuesday, when the BBC confirmed plans to sell Lonely Planet to a reclusive American billionaire, it drew internal scrutiny — this time for losing money on the sale.

This fear caused her to become reclusive and keep everything to herself.

Decommissioned years later, they now serve as shelters to the reclusive and gathering places to the adventurous.

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