solitude
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Oeldorf-Hirsch believes the appeal of solitude content is filling a social need for the creators and their audience, providing some "balance" against the dominance of hyper-glamourised influencer culture.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
It’s no wonder, then, that someone like Parsons can so deftly perceive and capture this dire reality, where we’ve been dropped into digital solitude after hundreds of years being physical creatures.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
At nearly 650,000 acres, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is known for its sprawling solitude: miles of lunar rock faces and sandy washes frame spindly Ocotillo stands, wildflower superblooms and designated dark skies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
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
Only a minute after she’d arrived in search of solitude, PTA mothers poured in after some meeting.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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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
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