solitude

Fukada's quiet portrait of solitude and thwarted love in rural Japan with his "Nagi Notes" is one of three Japanese movies in the 22-strong main competition in Cannes, the world's biggest film festival.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

When does a sad person want comfort…or solitude?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

“The Heart of the Andes,” a huge piece shown in stately solitude, had been widely advertised by a publicity agent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Mary’s presence is a malignancy, a blight on the name that Sam has worked so hard to build, an identity that’s separate from Mary’s and secure in its solitude.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Although Sefia never left Oxscini, she spent the next year roaming the Forest Kingdom, searching in vain for signs of Nin or her kidnappers, growing tough and strong in her solitude.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Are the vast mountain solitudes of British Columbia, of which but very few have been so far explored, populated by a hairy race of giants—men—not ape-like men?

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved,” he wrote.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

But the platform is more effective in collecting solitudes than in bringing strangers on a large scale meaningfully together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

Who better to offer up an olive branch that can ease the hitherto irreconcilable tensions between Canada’s two solitudes?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2020

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton