How To Use Recluse In A Sentence

  • How does this twitchy recluse become the regal princess in Act III? Times, Sunday Times
  • The refusal of judges to give any interviews, under cover of antiquated ‘rules’ which a long forgotten lord chancellor had invented, compounded the sense that they were all, or almost all, malevolent recluses.
  • In his last call he said he wanted to become a recluse because people liked him only because of his money. Times, Sunday Times
  • Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse.
  • Parents, psychologists and politicians are still struggling to find ways to coax these recluses - who are predominantly male - out of their self-imposed exiles.
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  • But, given these similarities, it's at least possible that he might have followed Axl Rose's lead, turning into a loopy, mansion-bound recluse, tinkering with unfinished projects, piling on the suet and emerging sporadically to sue his ex-bandmates and have a punch-up with Tommy Hilfiger. Never mind Nevermind, 1991 was all about Guns N' Roses
  • He quickly dismisses any notion that he's turned into a work-shy recluse.
  • The model was once so badly bullied over her condition that she became a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog. Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best
  • Socially inept recluses isolated in dimly lit rooms devoid of furniture and warmth, lacking friends and family, hating their jobs and life in general are the usual way in which single people are portrayed.
  • Until a few years ago, I thought the growing popularity of chatrooms would put a stop to social interaction, that computers would turn members of our society into a bunch of recluses.
  • Without adequate storage to keep all the mass emails they get, these poor recluses will be forced to delete their email regularly, and as a result, be restricted from going out in the world and meeting real people!
  • That's because you're a doddering old recluse who doesn't get out of the house nearly half as much as is good for you.
  • Instead, he became a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • Along with Nico's story, we also dive into the lives of Faye (an estranged friend for Nico's) and her own strange investigation into the revivor incidents, Zoe (a drunk recluse with a unique ability) and her reluctant recruitment by Nico, and Cal (a Tier 3 pitfighter) with her dangerous association with a rich stranger on the run. Rabid Reads: "State of Decay" by James Knapp
  • He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse.
  • She was known as a hoarder and recluse in south St. Louis - people called her a bag lady. Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores.
  • The fabled Collyer brothers were recluses whose bodies were found in 1947 amid the tons of debris in their Manhattan brownstone.
  • A source said: 'He is a bit of a recluse who lives on a houseboat and wants no fuss. The Sun
  • Now 56, she is said to live as a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • I hope they won't be recluses and that they'll enjoy rural life and all that goes on in the community.
  • There would be at least five hours of silent, seated meditation a day, but there was also a lot of interaction with the other recluses and with the group of meditators who would come for weekly lectures.
  • Most insects and poisonous spiders: mygale spider, brown recluse. Astrology for Enlightenment
  • All Encratites lived as groups of celibate male and female Christians, not as individual recluses, and they survived and grew by attracting converts.
  • Of this plan he completed two detached parts, namely the fragmentary 'Recluse' and 'The A History of English Literature
  • Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water. Finnegans Wake
  • Hence, some scholars would rather abandon political official career and content being a recluse.
  • He became a recluse, and his rare film appearances were overshadowed by tales of his eccentric behaviour on set.
  • Though not hermits or recluses, they do enjoy their own space to ruminate about what makes the world go round not to mention what makes people tick.
  • He lives as a virtual recluse on a rural estate near Andover, Hampshire, but owns shooting estates in Rosedale, North Yorkshire and other parts of Northern England.
  • In reaction to other philosophies of life the Taoists retreated and lived as recluses outside the milieu of society.
  • The rectory of St. Julian was impropriated to Carrow, and the anchorage was inhabited by recluses after Juliana's time.
  • In common with many other recluses, he doesn't appear to have been shy or uncomfortable in company.
  • One of the things about it, it's called a recluse spider because it typically comes out in the dark or at night. CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008
  • Down in the street he knew the burgh men were speeding the long winter nights with song and mild carousal; the lodges and houses up the way, each with its spirit keg and licence, gave noisiness to the home-returning of tenants for Lochow from the town, and as they went by Ladyfield in the dark they would halloo loudly to the recluse lad within who curled, nor shot, nor shintied, nor drank, nor did any of the things it was youth's manifest duty to do. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • The only recluse for them is to light bonfires to fend off the bite of cold and urban people are preferring to stay indoors.
  • Shunned by her former society friends, she became a recluse and rarely ever ventured outside.
  • How does this twitchy recluse become the regal princess in Act III? Times, Sunday Times
  • Woodrow Wilson, college professor, man of mystery, political recluse, the nominee of the most standpat Democratic convention of many years, had been chosen the leader of the people of the state by the unprecedented majority of 39,000, and was wearing the laurels of victory. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
  • He is now a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • Other recluses of his day wrote in heightened language about the grand mountain settings of their retreats; their lives appear exotic and glamorous.
  • Since then, Spector has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness.
  • Instead she became a virtual recluse and, consequently, a depressive who turned to food for comfort. The Sun
  • No need to be "disturbed", not sure why I used the word recluse, but you're right it was the wrong term to use. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen. Bombshells and Boxers
  • People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores.
  • In other respects, he is famously reticent, averse to showmanship and actually something of a camera-shy recluse.
  • Who is this modern hermit, this recluse of the St. Leger-week, this inscrutably ungregarious being, who lives apart from the amusements and activities of his fellow-creatures? The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
  • At home in her garret, she leads a solitary life reading, dreaming, watching television and spying on a neighboring recluse who endlessly repaints Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party.
  • Later Mrs Marsh ran a bed and breakfast business but that ended years ago and they were described by residents as virtual recluses.
  • It seemed to be more suited to those the world prefers to ignore: recluses, solitudinarians withdrawn from worldliness and public notice, supernatural beings and the mad.
  • She is clearly unhappy in a social order where money matters, where middle-aged men become recluses and run away from their families when they lose their salaries.
  • It was not until after our arrival at Tampico that I had the mortification to discover that the interesting creature, the charming recluse, is seventy-eight, and has just buried her seventh husband! Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
  • Across the Channel in England, at roughly the same time, Aelred, the Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx, composed a Rule for recluses intended for his sister and the small group of companions who had joined her in the anchoritic life. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged.
  • Olivia, and she preserved it as a sacred relique of her favourite recluse. The Italian
  • Yet, although he may seem a bit reticent, he certainly is not a recluse.
  • Try to be open and honest with the people you are closest to - don't shy away or become a recluse. The Sun
  • She too had now become a recluse, unwilling to connect with anyone who was going to obstruct us in what we were up to. Times, Sunday Times
  • The composition of hymns of the Rig-Veda was done by Hindu recluses, ascetics, Rishis and Sages rooted in the realities of life inside the society.
  • In He Who Fears the Wolf (Harcourt), the latest installment of this Norwegian series to be published in America, a young schizophrenic escapes from a mental institution and heads for the forest, where an old recluse is later found murdered. Touch of Evil
  • A sidekick, the antagonist, whatever - if they’re not the central focus of the story, they must still play an important role (the reporter later discovers the enigmatic recluse is really a costumed vigilante, and now must decide what to do with that knowledge). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » “How far in the book should I introduce my main character?”
  • Schopenhauer was a deeply conservative social recluse, whose life was dominated by compulsive behaviour: he followed an unvarying daily routine for nearly 30 years.
  • The majority had to severely restrict their lives by changing or abandoning work, curtailing all social activities, and becoming virtual recluses.
  • His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
  • His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.
  • The young lady who had so high a spirit as to have at times awakened somewhat of terror in those who were her adversaries; the young lady who had made such a fine show in male attire, and of whom it had been said that she could outleap, outfence, and outswear any man her size, had made a fine match indeed, marrying an elderly nobleman and widower, who for years had lived the life of a recluse, at last becoming hopelessly enamoured of one who might well be his youngest child. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
  • By day four, I had melted into a slothful recluse: soul and body atrophying, hair matted, bed unmade, depressed and petulant - a real joy.
  • He approached him as if to speak; but the recluse anticipated his purpose, murmuring in stifled tones, from beneath the fold in which his head was muffled, and which sounded like a voice proceeding from the cerements of a corpse, — “Abide, abide — happy thou that mayest — the vision is not yet ended.” The Talisman
  • I once knew a company president who had become a social recluse. Christianity Today
  • It cannot be warrantably inferred from anything that has now been said, that we could mean to represent the believer as a miserable recluse or a moping solitaire - as uncompanionable.
  • Without a woman, man's life was pitiful — the life of the recluse was a proof of that. NOVELS-NOVELS
  • A social recluse who ran an internet piracy racket from his bedroom has been jailed for two years. Times, Sunday Times
  • By degrees, then, Aram relaxed from his insociability; he seemed to surrender himself to a kindness, the sincerity of which he was compelled to acknowledge; if he for a long time refused to accept the hospitality of his neighbour, he did not reject his society when they met, and this intercourse by little and little progressed, until ultimately the recluse yielded to solicitation, and became the guest as well as companion. Eugene Aram — Volume 01
  • Joon-ho Bong's story of a recluse is the best of the three by some lengths. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • Moreover, he was a billionaire, he dated numerous Hollywood beauties; married three of them and remained a recluse most of his life.
  • In his time, ascetics and recluses again made an attempt to enter the Guru's flock.
  • This turn of events, this sad return after so many vain boasts, would have made a shamed recluse out of a normal human being.
  • She turned her back on acting in 1973 to devote her life to animals, becoming a recluse.
  • The father became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from all his friends.
  • The Duchess of Kent has withdrawn from public life to such an extent that she is often described as a recluse, but her son Lord Nicholas Windsor is determined to speak out over causes that he believes in. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Dickinson has been portrayed as a recluse, closeted from the real world and its tribulations. Emily Dickinson, War Poet (Quote of the Day / From Drew Gilpin Faust’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist, ‘This Republic of Suffering’) « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
  • In an interview with a newspaper, he recounted the terrible state of those aged persons - between 85 and 95 years old - many of them living as recluses, rejecting contact with family and friends.
  • But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse.
  • So I knew his name there and I knew him as a recluse, something to do with Vegas and ultimately an eccentric of some sort with strange stories coming out of many different places.
  • But his answer has been to up his training regime and become a virtual recluse with little else on his mind other than football. The Sun
  • Not for him the tongue-tied introversion of the self-conscious artist or the mute autism of the affected recluse.
  • Since his recovery from the first shock and agitation of his suspension he had moved about the roads and tracks of Torre Amiata with the 'recollected' dignity of the pale and meditative recluse. Eleanor
  • In other respects, he is famously reticent, adverse to showmanship and actually something of a camera-shy recluse.
  • That had been over a year ago, before Tess and I became total recluses and outcasted ourselves until this night.
  • The shaven-headed recluse was painfully shy but the opposite online. The Sun
  • In the meanwhile, Catherine continued to place upon the table the slender preparations for the meal of a recluse, which consisted almost entirely of colewort, boiled and served up in a wooden platter, having no better seasoning than a little salt, and no better accompaniment than some coarse barley-bread, in very moderate quantity. The Abbot
  • The isolation restricts your mind and you're likely to become a very angry, bitter recluse full of hate for others as well as yourself.
  • Away from work, he's a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • And he was a hermit, a recluse or what have you, or something like it.
  • The accidia had turned him into a recluse, accessible only to his intimate friends. V. S. Naipaul – Excerpt from The Enigma of Arrival
  • No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there. The Italian
  • The series also looks at recent developments in the worlds of animation and British comedy, and tells the strange tale of how convicts, scholars and recluses brought the Oxford English Dictionary into being.
  • They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse.
  • She doesn't work and is a virtual recluse. The Sun
  • But whether they choose to brazen it out or humbly confess, sue for libel or live like a recluse, there is little the disgraced can do to stop the frisson of pleasure we feel at their discomfort.
  • People left their hearths and home to live the life of a recluse and a hermit in deserts and mountains.
  • Though not hermits or recluses, they do enjoy their own space to ruminate about what makes the world go round not to mention what makes people tick.
  • There are other figures whose lives, the details of which are hidden or only partially known, captivate us: eccentrics, artists, the recluses.
  • Since then, he has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness.
  • The fiftysomething multimillionaire, who lives in Newport Beach, California, is something of a recluse.
  • Anti Vampire Club membership ranges from pirates to hermitic recluses to your common garden-variety psychopath.
  • The third part analyzes the interrelationship between Yimin painter and the recluse culture.
  • The brown thrush is instinctively and irreclaimably a recluse.
  • An emotionally confused daughter, a computer-recluse son and a cantankerously flatulent grandfather raise family bickering to an art.
  • The only way to counter this is for us to become a nation of paranoid recluses.

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