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He was a true isolato — to use his word for people who are islands unto themselves.
Our Best Writer, Revived Again��� Melville Made Whole at Last 2005
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He was a true isolato — to use his word for people who are islands unto themselves.
Our Best Writer, Revived Again- Melville Made Whole at Last 2005
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The early work, "Chemin de Fer," offers a dream-like epilogue to "The Thorn," a reflection on the consequences of sympathies that remain unexpressed, in which the retired, telescope-toting sea-captain of Wordsworth's poem has evolved from loquacious specular alienate to raving isolato.
Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision 1999
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Schopenhauer's lines (and The Grand Eccentrics itself) hint that it is the unconnect'd isolato, he "not acknowledging the common continent of men" (Melville) who attains the previously unreveal'd.
Isola di Rifiuti John Latta 2010
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There's a bosky isolato about the line as if amidst the thrill of a broken heart one could be wildly alone simply by choice.
Planet of the Blind 2009
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Personally, however, Ryan is an isolato who embraces the nomadic lifestyle that comes with his profession.
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L'aneurisma e il diverticolo isolato del ventricolo destro sono rare anomalie congenite il cui riscontro prenatale e 'eccezionalmente insolito.
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idea che un vivente non èµn sistema isolato, e così°uò¤©sobbedire al pricipio dell?
Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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It's never easy to find someone who will speak out against family or community ” the network, as it were, of human relationships ” but the loner (or isolato, or solitary ” all the terms have a faintly pejorative air) is generally presumed guilty until proven otherwise.
I Vant to Be Alone Iyer, Pico 2002
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Palmerston was _isolato_), not because he would be wanting in the will.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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