solitariness

Example Sentences

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In 2020, Eliza Hittman's critically-acclaimed Never Rarely Sometimes Always explored the solitariness and vulnerability of a teenage girl heading to New York City in the 1970s trying to get an abortion.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2022

But be careful not to confuse the contented solitariness of a preteen bookworm with unhappiness.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2021

There was something of St. Joan about it, and his solitariness appealed to the French collective myth of the single defiant individual.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

"But even when I was doing all the wild stuff, there was always a certain solitariness there, so maybe it came out of that."

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela