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Examples
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But he spent his last years in arrears, reclusivity, court cases, and tabloid headlines.
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It wasn't a Garbo-esque tease of reclusivity -- which itself is a cry for attention -- but a legitimate demand for proportion.
Adam Hanft: Paul Newman and the Vanished Modesty of Celebrity 2008
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I feel the tiniest bit relieved that I didn't live / the show didn't live to see Kyle all alone and forced to lead a life of reclusivity and loneliness just to save the world.
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A couple of the responses to my Greg Egan post theorized, to my surprise, that Egan’s relative lack of commercial success is due largely to his reclusivity—“no book tours, no signings, even his website has no blog or reader feedback area, nor any email address.”
Don Westlake-John D. MacDonald; Signings; Blockbusters Ed Gorman 2009
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PUSILLANIMOUS.] 2. do not backslide into that hobbit-way of life again. reclusivity does not work for anyone until AFTER they are famous and therefore hounded by the media and shiny teenage girls with homemade glitter-fonts on neon posterboards.
pojken Diary Entry pojken 2008
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