Night loneliness was always bad when the younger children had gone to bed, or when the father was not in the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we could banish our loneliness, yours and mine! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now the cabin was even quieter than it had been before loneliness put its stamp on everything. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt they sensed each other’s frayed loneliness as past champions, a nostalgia to which few could relate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She called the village of Las Pastures beautiful; she had gotten used to the loneliness, but she had never accepted its people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since leaving Frankie’s crew, I had tried to escape my homesickness and loneliness by becoming a part of Maxwell Street’s community. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told her how he would get up at midnight to weep in loneliness and rage over the underwear that she had left to dry in the bathroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And that that terror led to the hunger, the loneliness, the violence, the helplessness, the hopelessness, the apathy and the suffering with which I was surrounded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She could probably use the company,” Colin said, trying to use his familiarity with loneliness for the powers of good. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if she were dueling against her own fury and disappointment and frustration and loneliness. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The loneliness that was always in the cabin, except when his mother was singing or telling a story about the Lord, was heavier than ever now. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who is he and what is he that, out of loneliness, he comes into the alien camp and assumes the voice and face of memory and stands among us, accepted and happy at last? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huddling close to Chou, I cry silent tears for my family, my loneliness, and my constant hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never taken a hot bath, and my childhood memories were of cold, of loneliness, and of a perpetually empty stomach. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many eyes there was a look of somber loneliness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Poems and short stories I wrote, expressing sorrow and loneliness, were awarded high grades. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The terrible isolation and loneliness that had plagued me receded. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We have both known fear, and loneliness, and very great distress. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Make me know a loneliness I never could imagine in a forest empty of people for fifteen miles, or on a riverbank with nothing but live bait for company. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie’s granddaddy was not sitting on the doorstep smoking his pipe, and Turner felt the loneliness of the place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe part of it was the loneliness of the craters, but I was feeling like it was maybe time to hook up with someone again, because it had been a couple months. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, with nothing left to count, Turner climbed back up the ledges, with a pile of loneliness on his back as heavy as nightfall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not the loneliness of previous years, of a reluctant life by the sea, but a loneliness borne of the inability to share her joy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known a writer’s loneliness before, working on my dissertation in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his houseplant, hopeful green leaves rising from three bamboo stems, and when she took it, a sudden crushing loneliness lanced through her and stayed with her for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in my loneliness. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment a strange loneliness took hold. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d always thought of loneliness as a slow, ocean-wide thing, but it came over me like a sharp and sudden blow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are the kinds of questions I use to drive myself to distraction, when the boys are out and I’m crazed with loneliness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the loneliness in those two rooms had not gone away. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It seems to have spread as a kind of infectious disease exacerbated by the strains of ambition, affluence, family disintegration, and loneliness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Despite the sweetness of the news, loneliness, bottomless and black, rushes in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the slow heat of summer, long before dawn, Volkheimer paces in the harsh dazzle of the billboard lights and feels his loneliness on him like a disease. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a face before me, a lean and shriveled face like an apple too long in the barrel, a lonely face and sick with loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s based on the concepts of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” and it’s about how The Taker cured his loneliness at his old school through nonconformity and inconsistency. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He sighed now—in his sudden loneliness rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand—and picked up his camera, for he could hear his family coming. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them like I’d seen mothers do at playgrounds, with the same mixture of pride and loneliness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They stuck up at intervals in every direction, strangely sharpening the loneliness and desolation, sometimes the only sign of human presence in an acre or two of sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and die solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Shepherd was on the air, Bobby would darken his room and have a one-way conversation that eased his loneliness. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We also talked about doing things your own way, the diary, loneliness, the difference between everyone’s inner and outer selves, my mask, etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I realize that I have given voice to the essence of my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a moment’s awkward silence, during which Ranofer struggled without much success against the familiar frightened loneliness that had swept in again as through an opened door. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, I feel sorry for Bep and can understand her loneliness. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was a loner, like they were, but I had never before felt loneliness quite like this. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The only difference is that one can offer you only suffering now, while the other offers you a way to belong—a way to relieve the loneliness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I breathed softly in and out on the bed and felt the loneliness of everything. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found my thoughts going back to the time I had gone home without Kevin—the loneliness, the fear, sometimes the hopelessness I had felt then. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But with everyone gone, I’m not looking forward to the loneliness. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Their relationships with others were of a shallow, cold nature, lending a quality of loneliness and isolation to these men. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between these two low points of his birth and his success lay thirty-one dismal years of loneliness and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The most difficult part of being in the forest was the loneliness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Despite how beautiful everything was—the curving wheat that was more yellow than the week before, the sky that was cloudless today—she felt a stab of loneliness. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” said Tessie, relieved that my loneliness in the neighborhood was now over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But for a moment the intense loneliness and beauty of the open alpine setting held him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vacancy was there, a hole in the air, a special kind of loneliness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Questing kept me busy and served as a welcome distraction from the growing loneliness and isolation I felt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lefty comforted her and apologized, but as he turned over to go to sleep he felt himself being enclosed in the loneliness of fatherhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A desolate loneliness settled on me—almost a frightening loneliness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of azaleas and the creeping loneliness that climbed over me as I poked around Suffolk had begun to suffocate me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eejits felt neither cold nor heat nor thirst nor loneliness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She squeezed her grandmother’s shoulders gently, and as she stood up a wave of terrible loneliness swept over her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had been alone before, but the knowledge that my father would return from his meetings and spend a few minutes with me had made the loneliness endurable. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to go,” she implored with a touch of loneliness in her voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In one, his big, good-natured face buckled in grief as Arabella sank in loneliness and despair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Despite the boredom and the loneliness, I kept on working hard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of being alone on the island while so many suns rose from the sea and went slowly back into the sea filled my heart with loneliness. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look at the faces of these other riders, I see tiredness, loneliness, sadness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

To console myself for the loneliness I’d feel when I read, I tried reading in a very soft voice. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the loneliness I entered the party with came rushing back. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After the night of desolate loneliness I felt very good to be surrounded by warm and friendly but cautious people. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were speaking about a young man who had lived in the Middle Kingdom, not a man who had endured the hardships and loneliness of living in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A terrible sense of loneliness came over me; they seemed to enact a mysterious pantomime. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if there was no need for fear or loneliness when there was such softness in the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Worse than the feeling of danger was the sheer loneliness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Calliope on our bow, I feel a profound loneliness that nothing can penetrate. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she says, “but it was a different kind of loneliness. A sort of loneliness I hope you never have to understand. I didn’t leave you and your father,” she tells me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At five years old, I am beginning to know what loneliness feels like, silent and alone and suspecting that everyone wants to hurt me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually someone very ugly or very unhappy would spot a new kid walking around and in tentative, irresolute gestures would offer friendship to you with no ulterior motives except to end their own intolerable loneliness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twisting on the ground, he relived the pain, the cold, and the loneliness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A brick of loneliness is reaching terminal velocity inside me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If anything, the cell phone made me more aware of my loneliness. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She let me weep out all the misery and loneliness of recent years and helped me out of the tub with a mother’s care. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know that they can feel sadness, fear, despair, loneliness, boredom. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a spate of loneliness, I felt about inside Bear’s sack, found his recorder, and played a melody. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother never complained about the hard work or the loneliness. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

One evening he felt a crippling loneliness for the close men in barracks and tent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Few now remember them,’ Tom murmured, ‘yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had gotten him through the poverty and loneliness of a nomadic life in Montana, the pain of adolescence, the rejection and anger of high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would tell me of the horrors of the deadness, of the loneliness of silent roads and fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The impossible hungry mouth of her loneliness wanted to swallow her in a single piece. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At last loneliness and creeping guilt drove him inside the walls of his home. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both volumes became a quiet comfort to her Sunday loneliness, because as she read them she could hear Ezekial’s rich, warm voice filling the darkness of the cabin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looks so lonely—a loneliness of years, of a whole life. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She would have to continue living by herself and she wondered whether she would be able to bear such loneliness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It filled me with hatred, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, anxiety, loneliness, selfishness and a cynical attitude toward people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was prone to loneliness and now also felt fierce about sticking up for the girls’ needs, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I smiled back and forgot about my loneliness for the time being. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But when news of your father’s death reached me ... for the first time, I felt a terrible loneliness in that house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Day and night, the wind whistling through the rigging and the mournful cries of gulls gave voice to my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She felt a sudden, odd stab of loneliness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, hut only rarely now did doubts return. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the loneliness of being the odd man out in these conversations got to me but most of the time I just ignored it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know for the first time that I’ve truly pierced her loneliness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

These moments of night when the swamp and darkness surrounded them evoked an immense loneliness, a dread, a sense of exile from the rest of humanity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And the loneliness—the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn’t anybody at all in the world and he was left. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game not only engaged Bobby’s mind, it tempered his loneliness, and while playing, he felt more alive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The possibilities of chess somehow made his essential loneliness and insecurity less painful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fear, loneliness, desperation, sadness, even the slightest hint of joy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Earlier research had already demonstrated that women tended to respond better to withstanding pain, loneliness, and extreme temperatures. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bleak isolation awaiting her, the murderous loneliness, it didn’t have to be. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The loneliness I have felt many mornings, however, has not made me forget that I am engaged in a highly public activity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that loneliness stayed with me through the rest of the night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It felt like my loneliness, new and painfully fresh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

These voices, these quiet words, these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which I had been almost destroyed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Japanese loneliness, something she’d learned about from studying poems in school—just a sense that everything at that exact moment was kind of perfect, and yet also really sad. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t face another night of dense cold in my bones, of dark loneliness in my heart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made her happy, but for some reason that feeling of loneliness engulfed her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I kept none in my own house either, because I’ve always held that loneliness and boredom can lead a man to drink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while surging from my gut: fire sourness weight anger loneliness confusion embarrassment shame. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was not illness but loneliness gnawing at my bones. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like it when she goes away,” I cried into Abuela’s shoulder, the only place where I could express my loneliness, my fears. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ben knew that the exile was almost over, that his term of loneliness would be shortened the first time he touched the ball in practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t loneliness I felt, or isolation; they were still within reach. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, I liked the loneliness of it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As the adrenaline left my body, it left an unexpected feeling behind: loneliness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The message this time is to soothe this old lady’s loneliness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, even when nothing bad had happened, he looked like he wanted to cry from something—maybe loneliness? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If you choose to drown in loneliness, go ahead, but don’t claim she wasn’t our sister. We’re not just friends, we’re family.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He carried so much sadness and loneliness, so much heartache. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at the fire, trying not to think about where she’d been only weeks before—and what that kind of loneliness might have felt like. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Was there a way for the bubbly and optimistic to overcome the terror and loneliness? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Without a common language to communicate with anyone, his loneliness on the cattle ranch became greater than it had been in the labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even the loneliness I felt sometimes was okay. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the feeling of sitting in utter loneliness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Some nights he cried himself to sleep from loneliness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They have lived apart most of their lives, but he is the only one who understands her loneliness. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At times the pain and loneliness overwhelmed him and he broke down and cried. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know whether he could endure the awful loneliness any more. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was no sound in the cabin except the crackling of the fire, and there was no feeling inside him except a great loneliness. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang and thought, What did little Michael Jackson know about love and loneliness? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Its penetrating warmth made me forget my hunger and loneliness. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep loneliness and sense of loss was on them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to count the days since she was first arrested, but her loneliness, the darkness, and her fear distorted her sense of time and space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Doc had a girl in there, but Mack used to get a dreadful feeling of loneliness out of it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, their sounds added to my loneliness. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, as the world outside his home began to forget, it brought a new sense of loneliness. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And this thought makes my heart ache with loneliness. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A penetrating loneliness covered me, lay on me so heavily I had to sit down and cover my face. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I long to share my stories with her, but discretion holds my tongue and silence feeds my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The false black mustache was a flamboyant organ grinder’s, and he wore them both to the basketball game one day when he felt he could endure his loneliness no longer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My loneliness will sooner kill me than the ocean will. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to respond, but assorted emotions—anger, loneliness, jealousy, heartache—kept changing what I wanted to say. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All the crying, fear, and loneliness had wrapped a big, heavy blanket around him and told him to rest, so he had. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I guess I was starting to grow up, because for the first time I understood at least a little about the loneliness and frustration that often seemed to fill our house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the pain of my own mother’s death—grief, loneliness, uncertainty in my aunt and uncle’s house... Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adam walked through the dark town, increasing his speed as though his loneliness sniffed along behind him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wept for a long time, unburdening herself of many past sorrows and her loneliness, still holding on to Clara’s hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From now on Resa would be telling Silvertongue all the wonderful stories that drove away loneliness and homesickness and fear again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She saw his loneliness, his poverty, his fear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was full up with loneliness for her a few weeks ago. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes glowed with a dark, quiet look of loneliness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scram-bled swirling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a most strange feeling, to be alive yet dead to everyone who has known me—save you, Horatio,” I said, feeling loneliness well up in me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I could break the loneliness, the feeling of not belonging to the life that teemed around me, by going to the basketball courts. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely had gone out of him, and his person was clean and sweet, and he knew it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Imagining my home makes me ache with loneliness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or was it just my own pathetic loneliness that made me grab the scissors? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I finished the bed, thinking it looked surprisingly comfortable, a terrible black feeling came over me and I shuddered, aching at the sudden loneliness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had been alone before Rachel came, but she had not known what loneliness was—this sharp pain in her breastbone dragging down into a dull, persistent heaviness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to cure loneliness like family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After a while he too came to speak of isolation, of loneliness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"What are you-?" He could not bring himself to be specific at first; but then fear and loneliness goaded him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was the loneliness of his death that upset Malcolm most. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yet the spring air held a sadness too, sharper than all the loneliness of winter. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As he become marginally self-aware, he discovered loneliness, regret, and longing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I felt the beginning loneliness, the terrible dread of what I had decided to do. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, loneliness makes us do terrible things,” said Dr. Meescham. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

In her loneliness, she turned to her husband for reassurance, entertainment, for things to fill the vacant places. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The truth is, loneliness and hormones and parents who keep you like a fish in a bowl can do weird things to a person. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like all the pain in the world, all the sadness and loneliness and heartbreak, is funneled through my mom’s lungs. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His intensity and loneliness are, and so are the gun magazines that she sometimes sees him thumbing through during boring lectures, and the way he doesn’t even seem to feel guilty for what he did. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After a time, in the dreadful silence and loneliness of the tiny cell, he began suddenly to wish Eilonwy would come back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when the light starts to fade, I get a terrible feeling of loneliness, like maybe I am the only person in the world. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When they left, the little girl waved good-by to Eleanor, and Eleanor waved back, sitting in joyful loneliness to finish her coffee while the gay stream tumbled along below her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the gas mantle high, lit the kerosene lamp, and lighted two burners of my stove to drive the loneliness away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the room seemed to ache with loneliness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Just a silence in reply, that echoed of dust and loneliness. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I heard her sigh, and she must have shuddered too when she thought of Ultima living alone in the loneliness of the wide llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an air of utter loneliness upon her, that would have moved me to pity though she had wilfully done me a deeper injury than I could charge her with. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every day that she waited for him to become who he had been, he bore the burden of her loneliness in addition to his own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I last as long as I can, I do, I just can't shake the loneliness. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s not their fault that the world is full of hard choices and hunger and loneliness,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Only occasionally, on cold nights when there was nothing but the flames to stave off his loneliness, did he think he heard them calling to him, but they whispered words he didn’t understand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had read so much about the loneliness of the farmer, the trapper, the woodsman during the bleakness of winter that I had come to believe it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the loneliness that sent him to The Mecca, and how The Mecca, how we, could not save him, how we ultimately cannot save ourselves. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The visit blunted the feeling of loneliness in him so that when he said good-bye he was at peace with himself once more. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There was a certain loneliness about him hunched above the board,” said Khariton. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now no one spoke to him, and I can see now in my mind his tubby loneliness and his face full of hurt pride. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get lonely sometimes up at our house, but today I want to be with that loneliness. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From deep inside my heart an ache started, a hurt for Susie and for her loneliness. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the only thing keeping her total and desperate loneliness at bay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth, in turn, went for eight weeks without hearing from him, she felt “infinite pain and loneliness.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I know only that it had a strange effect on me: it no longer filled me with doubt and distress, loneliness, shame. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same innocence, trust, and restlessness, the wonder, fear, and loneliness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was calling us back from our loneliness with three blunt words, as only our mom could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Rishi breathed deeply, the loneliness and the doubt and the brilliant pain of the last month finally dissipating. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told myself I wouldn’t leave till Georgie came home, I wouldn’t meet Lissa, but in the end I couldn’t stand the loneliness any longer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How about we make some tea, huh? You can make the fire. Doing physical things takes away the loneliness and longing.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His loneliness had dropped down somewhere around his ankles. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy could draw it, the loneliness, a wispy cloud the color of a clear sky just after sunset, all deep blues and purples. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She imagined her loneliness, her abandonment, her orphanhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this feeling of loneliness that made him decide to take a shortcut back to Not Doctor Street, even though to do so would lead him past his sister’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unwilling to face the loneliness of the airfield’s spartan accommodation, or a dour granite-faced Aberdeen landlady who wouldn’t accept her ration coupons for an unarranged evening meal, Maddie opted for the train. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Indeed, tears had welled up in his eyes, and the sincerity in his expression made Reynie—who was used to ignoring his loneliness—grow almost heartsick. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In his half-dreams he saw his friend very vividly, and when he awakened a great aching loneliness would be in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This time he didn’t feel the desperate loneliness and fear of four days earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I succumbed utterly to my desolation, made two peanut-butter sandwiches, and went to bed and wrote letters home, passing my loneliness around. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

An almost intolerable loneliness wrapped Kit away from the joyous crowd. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Night loneliness is part fearing,” the boy’s mother had once said to him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the spotlight the Littleton, Colorado, killings has put on the fact that for so many individualistic, intelligent, and vulnerable kids, high school is a Hellmouth of exclusion, cruelty, loneliness, inverted values, and rage. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free of school and grown-ups, free of goodness and badness and ugliness and loneliness. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t see her loneliness or fear or courage, let alone her humanity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted to keep on learning and to escape the loneliness I felt for my family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I felt a pang of loneliness as I scanned a row of books, searching for an exciting adventure story to take me away. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gabriel floated and spun within the veer, being part of evil, feeling the anguish and loneliness of it, of having been cast out again and again throughout history. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he is used to living alone so nobody listens to him,” she said, sensing his loneliness. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the twins were two years old their father’s drinking, aggravated by the loneliness of tea estate life, had driven him into an alcoholic stupor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing filled his ears; it was complete, self- contained, and it mocked his fear and loneliness, his deep yearning for a sense of wholeness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We found a few others who were like us, different in language and custom, and a part of our loneliness was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt, like a broken little bone inside, the loneliness of her best friend. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I felt sorry for the old, broken-down woman whose loneliness had turned her into a bruja—a fate worse than death, a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone, least of all Mamá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His brilliant blue eyes were as dark as the sea, and carried its same loneliness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had come to depend on the intellectual companionship of students—bright students—to relieve the scholar’s loneliness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that time was over and the good-bys said, I had to go through the same lost loneliness all over again, and it was no less painful than at first. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her tears, straightened her head, and didn’t weep again until the day her mother died, seven years later, although it was not for lack of suffering, loneliness, and other causes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the work was done, and the day’s punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The routine of the house flowed on as usual; for me there was sleep, mush, greens, school, study, loneliness, yearning, and then sleep again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes my hand as we step out of her building and I leave it there because I know there is a true feeling of loneliness that comes from waiting together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was sorry that I had never felt this particular loneliness before— that I had never felt myself so far outside of someone else’s dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The first half of 1943 brought crying spells, loneliness and the gradual realization of my faults and shortcomings, which were numerous and seemed even more so. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Terrible times lie ahead. There will be so many dead they will be impossible to count. You will be on the side of the winners, but victory will only bring you suffering and loneliness.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his eyes shining like hers; he had forgotten the loneliness and the nights when we had cried together because we were “unwanted children.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swelled and swelled until all the loss, all the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

People say he’s angry, and hermitlike, but it's loneliness that afflicts him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained, too, an understanding of solitude and its joy. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My loneliness feels like a dark cloud that could be trapped and put in a jar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her grief and loneliness, the burden of being both mother and father, she relegated to the privacy of their house on Mimosa Crescent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He liked other people too much for that, and friends could help push away the loneliness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I am,” I muttered, angry that I was sitting beside a human being to whom I could not talk, angry with myself for coming to her, hating my wild and restless loneliness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these years she had been harboring good feelings about Eva; sharing, she believed, her loneliness and unloved state as no one else could or did. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of loneliness, and how the sun, even in the barrio, seemed warmer when shared. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But aside from the loneliness, and the cold, it’s all exactly the same. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Writing had to be done in loneliness and Communism had declared war upon human loneliness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was excitement and pain, anxiety and boredom, love and loneliness, anger and joy. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They said the City makes you lonely, but since I’d been trained by the best woodsman ever, loneliness was a thing couldn’t get near me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She deserved the chill, the loneliness, the drunks and the trash, a thousand worse punishments and tortures. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A weird loneliness that is, yet isn’t, real. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I would have to watch her carefully to capture the essence of her loneliness and pain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the beginnings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the loneliness nor the learning was easy for him, however. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And because she knows airplanes can be lonely places and because she knows how desperate loneliness can be, she pays extra attention to her passengers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We miss him terribly and Geak, being so young, is the only one able to vocalize our loneliness, by continuing to ask for Pa. I am afraid for Geak. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he sought out Ghost in the loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Although his efforts to survive often force her out of his mind, at times he thinks of her with a loneliness that is overwhelming. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I lay down to sleep, I was overcome by a wrenching loneliness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or quell the loneliness he felt being moved from one relative to the next? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A bitter loneliness swept over Cole as tears clouded his vision. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s as if all the loneliness he left behind in the house just cracked the rest of our family in half. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Although the play prefigures all the later Williams themes of loneliness and self-destruction, it is revealing to discover just how funny it is. Beyond the Horizon / Spring Storm 2010-04-08T10:21:00Z

I think that makes the sadness and loneliness of this new year easier to bear. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

“I guess it intensifies his experience of loneliness.” Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Taylor Swift offers a controlled look at her life and creative process in this new documentary, which highlights the loneliness of being one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Briarpatch’ and ‘Tommy’ 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

If they order vodka martinis it’s probably to stave off loneliness, not to look suave. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and ‘Genius: Aretha’ 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

This distance led to a cavern of loneliness for me, but where else would I go and what else would I do? Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

This was intended to show the loneliness of the long distance spy, but what it really highlighted was that no Spooks fans had been invited. TV review: Spooks and Unequal Opportunities 2010-09-21T06:00:00Z

Locked up alone or crowded together in apartments, many of us are enduring unbearable but asymptomatic loneliness, anxiety and grief. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Something that interests me as well is the idea of loneliness and the way that L.A. in particular is a very lonely city because everyone is in their cars and there's no real hub. A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z

We are living through an epidemic of loneliness. Feeling lonely? Meet the people who suffered extreme isolation – then found happiness 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

I understand what loneliness can make a woman do. Roxane Gay: By the Book 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

If anything links all of those people, it’s not so much their being islanders as it is an aching loneliness. ‘Deep Blue Sound’ Review: Searching for Orcas and Longing for Community 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Connell, meanwhile, struggles with loneliness and depression, and sees for the first time how much tougher the world can be to people who aren't born into money. "Normal People" takes a common teenage love story and matures to a rated-M, sex-driven heartbreak 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Your feeling is one of loneliness, something everyone feels, even people who have a million friends. I’m an 11-year-old girl and I have no friends! 2012-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I felt that I could sort of grieve for that girl that I was,” Hoang said in an interview at her home recently, describing her childhood as a time she was “drowning in loneliness.” A romance novelist struggled with Asperger’s. Now she writes about love on the spectrum. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

“We both recognized something going on between us: Our focus on work was a kind of loneliness,” Mr. Cale says. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

He lived in his imagination, warding off loneliness by building tiny houses for tiny imaginary people. Pulp fiction: bringing pop-up paper theatre to life 2013-07-03T14:45:45Z

This loneliness is also emphasised by her costumes, many of which act as exo-skeletons, essentially cages within which she performs. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

But a pandemic isolates us collectively, as the grid illustrates almost too perfectly; we aren’t alone in our loneliness. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The love affairs that lead to doom and loneliness here involve members of two generations: the now nearly middle-aged Bright Young Things and a new group of socially-minded Sober Young Things in their early 20s. London Theater Journal: Bright Young Things in a Dimming Light 2010-07-23T14:30:00Z

Loneliness has finally become a hot topic – last month, the Office for National Statistics found Britain to be the loneliness capital of Europe. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The book’s steady cheer might cloy were it not punctuated by loneliness. Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Effectively directed and choreographed by Paige Hernandez, the production features Regina Aquino as the Singer, an impish but unflinching everyday sage who shares stories about loss, loneliness and death. Review | An unvarnished view of reality in two lively shows: Round House’s ‘We’re Gonna Die’ and Constellation’s ‘The Last Five Years’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Could it be useful for people to keep in mind that poor sleep could be a reason for their feelings of loneliness? Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

And a bruising loneliness is not only a potential side effect but a necessary part of the experience, too. Young and Adrift in New York City 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

As the program puts it: “Unrequited love, loneliness in the alien world increases psychic crisis.” Review: Boris Eifman, the Sensationalist of Russian Ballet 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

I wanted to see their loneliness because I was feeling it myself. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

The “loneliness of business travel” has inspired a number of moving and funny stories in recent years. “A folk tale, but with swearing”: Drew Magary on his debut novel “The Hike” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Those feelings of loneliness and solitude, of yearning for family and connection, was something we all felt. And the first episodes I wrote were born from that.” ‘Solos’ is a veritable who’s who of actors. Here’s why it needed ‘true masters of the craft.’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Nash’s portrayal lends Plum a sense of playfulness that counteracts the loneliness she wears like a cloak. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Loss, loneliness and physical pain are communicated through faces, breath patterns and collapsing postures. 'Small Mouth Sounds': Playwright Bess Wohl's off-Broadway sleeper arrives at the Broad Stage 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

Traveling over mountain and prairie, he confronts enemy wolves, gun-toting humans, wildfire, hunger, thirst and intense loneliness. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Ibeyi also sang a remake of a song by the rapper Jay Electronica, “Better in Tune With the Infinite,” that ponders loneliness and determination. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Immersed in Anger and Smothered by Loneliness Thematically somber but visually luminous, “Dissolution,” the remarkable new work from the Israeli-American filmmaker Nina Menkes, explores a soul stained by blood and smothered by loneliness. Movie Review: ?Dissolution,? a Film Set in Israel by Nina Menkes 2012-03-09T00:49:35Z

His writing deals with displacement, loneliness and the impact of forced exile. Poets gather for global gathering 2012-06-25T07:52:29Z

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom.” Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

“When our lives pass away in dismal loneliness, where will we find these beautiful moments again?” she crooned in Farsi from the stage at Expo 2020, Dubai’s world’s fair. Iranian pop star Googoosh wows Dubai despite Tehran’s outcry 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

We forge fake friendships, and we think lies are the answer to our loneliness. Review | All those books with ‘Lie’ in the title are there for a reason 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Amira, his Italian wife, who converted to Islam, waits for him in a state of disciplined loneliness. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

This pandemic hasn’t created what the former surgeon general Vivek Murthy calls a “loneliness epidemic,” so much as laid it bare. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marber has wondered if some kind of wound, some kind of loneliness enables Mr. Hollander’s acting. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The themes that run through both the plays we have chosen and the ones that we didn't are: immigration, the threat of nuclear war, loneliness and class. Lost short plays by Harold Pinter and John Mortimer to be revived 2013-05-11T23:06:33Z

But the thing that brings this extroverted 42-year-old to tears is what’s taken hold in the void of pandemic life: loneliness. What it felt like to lose time — and all the other things coronavirus took away

But while Mr. Ford sympathetically depicts the isolation and crushing loneliness Dell experiences, the second half of this novel lacks the organic momentum and deeply felt emotion of the preceding pages. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z

You might hear in that the loneliness of Gaveston, or the dread of a King confronting the passage of time before his own, sure murder. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

That was less of a factor than the natural progression of life, the shuddering inevitability of sustaining betrayal, humiliating loss or chilly loneliness. Twenty years after "Kill Bill" came out, The Bride's bloody rampage cuts differently 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

On the way home from their short adventure, the mother falls ill and dies shortly after, leaving her husband in a life of tranquil loneliness. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

Much of my alcoholism was rooted in extreme loneliness; and I have found that since choosing to be more present, I have made new friendships and nurtured old ones. Alcoholism doesn't confine me any longer – and it doesn't define me either | Jack Monroe 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

Along the road, people seem to be expecting him: “Why did you come so early?” asks one old lady, and the embraces of his brother’s wife suggest she has reached a limit of loneliness. | 'Between Two Worlds': Wanderer in Bewitching, Fractious Land 2010-11-21T22:33:00Z

They never move faster than midtempo and they often luxuriate in melancholy; they testify, above all, to loneliness. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Fine, but she regularly complains about her loneliness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Setting ground rules for babysitting without seeming anti-Auntie 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

As his father, Philip II, the vocally authoritative Ferruccio Furlanetto never loses sight of the pain and loneliness beneath the imperial carapace. Don Carlo – review 2013-05-06T16:12:06Z

“That just broke my heart. I didn’t think of it as a sad record. Now I hear that. I hear the vulnerability, I hear the loneliness.” ‘Guyville’ at 25: Liz Phair’s career-defining album still defines her. For better or worse. 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

He captures a pleasing, guttural restlessness in his own bluesy ballads about cosmopolitan loneliness and adrift yearning, notably the twangy waltz “When the One You Love Loses Faith,” from his most recent album, “Absent Fathers.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Although Guojing attributes some of the book’s emotional territory to her own experience as an only child under China’s one-child policy, many children will recognize themselves and their own moments of loneliness and connection. Our top three children’s and YA books to start off your new year 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Part of Lowry's isolation and loneliness arose from nursing his bedridden mother for most of the 1930s, working as a rent collector by day and looking after her at night. LS Lowry exhibition in Salford reveals artist's dark side 2013-06-19T16:33:18Z

In recent months, Aggett said the loneliness set in again but the lunches helped him find a reason to smile again. Widower invited to eat lunch with students following wife's death 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

"The Banshees of Inisherin" is a great mix of these two genres, with McDonagh managing to create a muted tapestry of loneliness and sorrow that still leaves you holding your sides laughing. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

A combination of loneliness, fear and helplessness colors each and, in turn, Mexico itself. New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’ 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The loneliness and anxiety of being a teenager are vividly rendered, which is part of what spoke to Steinfeld. Teen Angst With a New Edge 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The cosmic loneliness of the music spoke with its own voice. LSO/Rattle ? review 2011-03-08T18:31:09Z

Her women have different accents and back stories, but they share many of same preoccupations with age, power and loneliness. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Both characters find that technology offers a reprieve from that loneliness. Her vs. The Circle: The Dangers of Trying to Remain Plugged In 2014-01-17T10:00:01Z

Ang's performance has always betrayed a depth of loneliness, as if Omega feels severed from siblings who grew up without her. Omega is the MVP of "The Bad Batch," a Star Wars clone who's destined to be different 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

“I believe Gabriel has come to her out of warmth and a little loneliness and a little guilt, and he’s trying to reconnect with her,” Wright says. Martha is back on ‘The Americans,’ and Alison Wright has finally arrived 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Coppola doesn’t tell that more, she lets audiences infer that through the elliptical narrative that highlights her subject’s loneliness and abuse. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

It’s an on-the-nose image of loneliness and lassitude for those “living in the screen bunker,” as the pop psychologist Rob Henderson has called pandemic life. Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The themes are similar throughout most of the album - brokenhearted loneliness and alienation from home and the people who are important. Review: Mellow vibe for Isbell on 'Here We Rest' 2011-04-11T19:01:18Z

I spent four years after my marriage of 17 years with my first wife of really sad, post-divorce loneliness. Paula Pell, queen of comedy: On her "SNL" years, making "Wine Country" with Amy Poehler and more 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

Some have tried adopting pets to combat loneliness, or went to therapy. Can Parties Help Us Heal? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The slow movement began with an exquisite loneliness. Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado turns on the charm at Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

But underneath the hard-shelled cynicism of the hook-up age, she implied, the same currents of longing and loneliness still run deep. Music Review: The Kisses, the Bites, the Humor of Rodgers and Hart 2010-09-19T21:58:00Z

There has always been something a little mysterious about Murphy, an edge to his charm, a suggestion of loneliness and suspicion in his eyes. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Eleanor, like her cinematic predecessors, is charmed by Isaiah's innocence and drawn to his loneliness, a feeling with which she's painfully familiar. "Let the Right One In" files down its fangs for it TV adaptation, preferring to stake the heart 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

But shocking as this is, such studies overlook the loneliness epidemic among younger adults. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

With old age and the accelerated suffering brought on by heart failure, he confessed to loneliness and terror. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The book explores issues of parenting, privilege, loneliness and connection. ‘Paradise Imperfect’ explores issues of parenting, loneliness 2014-01-27T22:13:25Z

It's especially moving when he talks of his loneliness in her absence. Betrayel – review 2012-05-23T17:31:26Z

I hang up and burst unexpectedly into tears, overcome by a sense of loneliness. Motherlode Blog: The End of Brain, Child Magazine 2012-05-31T13:27:13Z

More appealing are the subtle ways that the loneliness — and the quiet fortitude — of the woman and the storekeeper are expressed. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z

A silent room – grey with a dusty blight Of loneliness;A room with not enough of light Its form to dress. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z

“That kind of loss … it’s a real kind of loneliness.” And what do you do when the trip in question might be your last chance to say goodbye 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

At the end of the first act, she describes her loneliness in a fashion that bears, at the start, elements of the Letter Scene in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

But nothing disrupts the overall mood of ethereal beauty and spiritual loneliness. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z

Worried Friend: You’re right — aimless dating because of loneliness, guilt or desperation is not good for your friend or her children. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom’s aimless dating might not be good for the kids 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Martin, Short, and Gomez have impeccable comedic timing, but their characters are attuned to the sense of loneliness and vicarious existence enveloping millions of us over the last few years. "Only Murders in the Building" returns with an invitation to the familliar 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Despite all this, the phenomenon of weekend loneliness has scarcely been studied. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

His newest, presented this summer at the Traverse Theater during the Fringe, is a story about loneliness, the choices we make in our lives and, naturally, a mouse. A New Theater Season of Hitting the Boards Hard, From Broadway to Oregon 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

As digital connections have blossomed, so too has a sense of loneliness among some users. The IRL Social Clubs 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Dr. Trub supervised the research on a study that found a link between the number of strangers that Instagram users follow and the possibility that they experience depressive symptoms, such as fearfulness, loneliness or fatigue. On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The portrait is pervaded by a sense of loneliness and isolation. Jeff Sheng?s Photos of Gay Military Personnel 2010-03-18T02:13:00Z

They’re chained inside a wagon, a trio of frontier wives driven insane by the hardship, disease and loneliness of life in an unforgiving, wind-swept wilderness. “The Homesman”: Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank are unforgettable in a ruthless, classic western 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Landing lightly on the loneliness of fame and the ravages of aging, “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” is a fond farewell to a distinctive talent. Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

My other relationships have been more like truces with loneliness. In the New Year, More Cuddling 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

His last play "Title and Deed," a meditation on loneliness and home, was produced by the Signature. New Edward Albee play a Signature highlight 2013-03-13T14:08:07Z

Invisibility is what he achieved, and what this film — by staring so empathetically at squalor and loneliness — so painfully shows. ‘The Unicorn’ Review: A Gay Country Singer’s Grim and Lonely World 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Has some of that loneliness subsided in the wake of everything else that’s happened? Grammys 2015: Sam Smith on new album plans, handling fame 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

From her stories of the disorientation and loneliness of a city-hopping career, he envisioned a piece that evokes the social fragmentation of our age. Modern life is a fragmented place in 'Carmen Disruption' at City Garage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

You get the picture, or you think you do: dust and heat and isolation, all rolling out in a landscape of great natural beauty, alongside inner lives of loneliness and disappointment. Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany - review 2012-06-29T21:55:16Z

She reminds us that “his every step” has been “inspected and analyzed: his promise, his awkwardness, his happiness, his suffering, his betrayals and embarrassments and mistakes, his loneliness, his success.” Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Equal parts ribald humor, lurid emotion and raw elegy, the Writer's accounts pull a plethora of familiar Williams motifs into play against everyone's crushing loneliness, “a sort of soft, awful groaning in the walls.” Lonely eccentrics, adrift in the French Quarter in Tennessee Williams' 'Vieux Carré' 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The film's imagery conveys a sense of the isolation and loneliness of the characters. "Plan 75": Dystopian film about euthanasia for elders fueled by "anger towards intolerant society" 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

That this is anathema to his characters should go without saying; a deep loneliness pervades the book. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

People come to Glastonbury to escape their depression and loneliness and end up feeling even worse. 'I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s' 2013-07-01T06:00:18Z

Ames, who assumed his years of loneliness would never end, floats off the ground in a state of anxious delight, always preparing himself for the day when Lila will run back out of his life. Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila:’ an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love

He soon realised he had been using casual sex to cover up his loneliness. The power of celibacy: ‘Giving up sex was a massive relief’ 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

These wordless scenes, mounted by the AENY-El Puente company, at the Duke on 42nd Street, evoke the peculiar disorientation and loneliness of navigating a new city. | 'Wearing Lorca?s Bowtie': ?Wearing Lorca?s Bowtie? at the Duke on 42nd Street - Review 2011-12-11T22:49:16Z

Mrs. Bush adds that life with her parents was “not sad,” but a sense of loss and loneliness does blow through her descriptions of her childhood. Books of The Times: Lonely Texas Girl: Laura Bush?s ?Spoken From the Heart? 2010-04-28T21:57:00Z

But the book is about so much more: generosity, resentment, racial indifference, Southern misfits, loneliness. New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“A lot of my ballroom family lives alone,” said Isla Ebony, “I immediately felt the loneliness and looked for how we evolve from here.” Voguing for Our Lives. Again. 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

As a single and childless person at the onset of the pandemic, Jacobs was experiencing a sharp sense of loneliness. These single-mom friends joked about buying a house together. On a whim, they did it. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

First published in Australia in 1937, this novel, a beautiful depiction of school life, loneliness and sexual yearning, is one to set beside Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” The top 50 fiction books for 2014

But they don’t address the more practical and dreary preoccupations that can trigger many of us day to day, such as bills and arguments and loneliness and excessive boozing, for example. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s at nighttime, when we’d normally be together, that the choking loneliness hits. Love in the time of corona: 'This wasn't how I planned it, but she said yes' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Count Dracula — a recluse plagued by yearning, a macabre flair for theatrics and existential loneliness — turned out to be an unlikely patron saint for the uncertain times, Kirkland said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Honigmann’s film, music is protection against that loneliness, and a consolation, too. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Eilish takes over to deliver her side of the story — “Who knew you were just out to get me?” — before each moves on, resigned to loneliness. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

I was lonely, and a teenage girl’s loneliness can be dangerous, which was why Marie and I decided to form a band. My “Ghost World” years: Confessions of a teenage AOL catfisher 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

It's a very clever piece, and much more than a mere comedy of manners, offering instead a chilling exploration of the loneliness of being human and the icy wastelands of the heart. This week's new theatre 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Throughout the new season of “OITNB” we see the characters dealing with loneliness and loss of faith in myriad ways. Our lonely binge-watching summers: Searching for signs of connection in “Orange Is the New Black” 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Their relationship is the core of the story as the two bond over their mutual loneliness. Review: ‘Anything’ Finds a Small-Town Man Baffled by the Big City 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Moss’s characters — four people in England’s Peak District — are confined not only by lockdown, but by their own thoughts and loneliness. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

I imagined loneliness like the locked tower in which Rapunzel was imprisoned, the room where Sleeping Beauty slumbered surrounded by a forest of thorns. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Instead it’s all about loneliness and toughness and sadness.” Broadway’s ‘Aunties’ Enjoy Their Downtime 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was 2016, during an election cycle that left many of us feeling wrenched from reality, and suddenly I was seeing loneliness everywhere. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

There is no loneliness quite like the loneliness you feel when you’re with someone who doesn’t “see” you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parents reject new in-laws on moral grounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Other people might be hell, but loneliness is worse. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

There is continual reference to fading looks, loneliness, and self-deception, perhaps the most memorable example being Julie Anne Stanzak's crazed performance as an ageing cheerleader, desperately trying to reprise her old routines. Zoi Dimitriou Company; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-16T23:05:44Z

She did not ever complain about loneliness, I was told. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

“The Young Pope,” debuting Sunday, Jan. 15, on HBO, lets Mr. Sorrentino once again use his trademark style — saturated Technicolor, a hint of magic realism — to explore some of his recurring preoccupations: power and loneliness. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Could you talk to him about your feelings, your fears, your unhappiness, your loneliness without alluding to or criticising his actions?” My husband doesn’t seem to care about me any more 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

But that framework is open enough to encompass songs offering ecological pleas, dance-floor bliss, glimpses of mystical revelation and thoughts about loneliness, depression and healing. Bomba Estéreo Strives to Save the Planet and Soothe the Heart 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

I have been using study to escape loneliness, insecurity and anxiety that arose from the stress of the course and my failure to establish friends. I’ve worked hard at my studies, but only to escape loneliness | Dear Mariella 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

“To feel her loneliness within that crowd of people, who were sniffling or snapping pictures on their smartphones, was very moving,” Mr. Pereira said. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

For goodness sake, I’d experienced the opposite of loneliness plenty of times, whatever it was. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

I think, as well, the experience of loneliness, particularly urban loneliness, is intensely visual. Art illuminates loneliness: “The experience of loneliness, particularly urban loneliness, is intensely visual” 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

It also gets Jamie thinking more about his mother’s life, and wondering about her loneliness. Annette Bening Is Extraordinary in '20th Century Women' 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

There’s something really profound going on there about sadness and loneliness that is probably really hard to square with the genre trappings. How Stephen Sondheim’s Work Did (and Didn’t) Translate to the Screen 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Across the river the next evening, a similar ambiguity — and loneliness — suffused Mr. Wey’s new work for four performers, which had moments of stunning alignment with its maritime surroundings. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

But there’s a big difference between loneliness and solitude. Meet the regulars: what makes people want to eat in the same place every day? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Juxtaposing flashbacks of familiar harm with blissful dancing in thrift store finds, Sycamore investigates the loneliness of late capitalism, wherein oppression is internalized as shame. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Outer space is the locus, as the sea was for island people writing Anglo-Saxon poems, of the idea of a special sort of loneliness, a confrontation with the sublime. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z

But more often they reinforce each other’s introspection, turning thoughts of mortality into power pop or facing down loneliness with tentative voices but utterly sure-footed buildups. Playlist: New Music From Best Coast, Fol Chen, Admiral Radley 2010-07-23T20:46:00Z

There are breath-taking beauties who suffer depression, loneliness, self-harm and much more and for exactly the same reasons as those you worry about with your girl. My daughter needs plastic surgery – how can I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

"Something occurred to me when we were making that film," says Swinton, "about the relationship of love to loneliness." Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

The loneliness and angst most kids experience in adolescence was exacerbated by hearing loss. He's Lin-Manuel's right-hand man: the 'Hamilton' arranger who hasn't let hearing loss derail the dream 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

At other times he complained bitterly of loneliness. Assi Dayan, Israeli Actor and Filmmaker, Dies at 68 2014-05-03T02:18:39Z

All interaction must center on six prescribed emotions: anger, pain, shame, guilt, fear and loneliness. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z

Solitude is not to be confused with loneliness. The Sounds of Silence 2011-06-30T21:52:05Z

Her loneliness is established by the time she enters the University of Oslo, where she impresses a professor named Jakob with her math talent. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Particularly on tour, when you’re almost crazy with music and hunger and hangovers and loneliness and bad air and crazy fans. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

A toxic blend of suspicion, protectiveness, loneliness, enmity and unarticulated affection, little passed between them that wasn't informed by the absence of the man most important in both their lives. Farewell, Pat Butcher 2011-07-08T12:11:05Z

Mr. Zinsser wrote that the loneliness of the freelance writer’s life helped persuade him to turn to teaching. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

For years, her husband had been writing about how loneliness can alter the way an individual’s brain works. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

One nun bemoans her loneliness, even in a crowd. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

In the end, despite his grandiose designs on the city, he’s just a man of “outraged loneliness” who wants to restore everything except his relationship with his own son. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features The loneliness in this short story belongs to those who instead of to win a race, run just for the hell of it. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z

As a character, Serenata is a fascinating and daringly unsympathetic heroine, burdened with the loneliness of her greater insight. Review | ‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’ is a fitness industry satire weighed down by its own heavy-handedness 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

More confusing still are findings by the Mental Health Foundation – it identifies 18- to 35-year-olds, not teenagers, as the age group most likely to struggle with loneliness. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ridge, however, thinks matters are more urgent and suggests that I’m headed for loneliness later in life if I don’t start actively sustaining friendships. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Despite a whiff of self-absorption in this project, Laing is astute and incisive, and her conclusion that “loneliness is personal, and it is also political” is hard-won and affecting. Finalists for the NBCC Criticism prize 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

He rescued her from a life of spinsterhood and loneliness. My father’s double life 2014-03-24T23:07:00Z

As 2022 research for the American Psychological Association shows, loneliness "could have implications for people's long-term mental and physical health, longevity and well-being." For 2023, I'm giving up loneliness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Here the twin themes of universal human loneliness and the souring of the American dream combine to bleak, funny and moving effect. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

He was easier in his own skin, and it shows a little in the writing: there are fewer stories about loneliness, isolation, or exclusion. The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Her loneliness is her very downfall, as she overzealously kills a human, pretends it doesn’t bother her, and is ostracized by the Scoobies. Slaying the patriarchy: Everything I need to know I learned 20 years ago from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s unfettered by the loneliness that people can feel in New York. Edie Falco Can’t Quit CNN, but Jazz and a Dog Park Keep Her Sane 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

How do you combat loneliness or boredom when you're in the thick of working on a project, and also not get distracted by everything that's available to us now? Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

If sadness or loneliness makes you eat, get together with friends or call someone. 9 Behaviors That Make You Eat More 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

She tries to find beauty, and she tries to find connection, and she knows the pain of loneliness that is in all of us even though we might not be aware of it. Riff: How I Learned to Love Yoko Ono 2012-10-21T08:07:02Z

Perrin’s experiences tally closely with what scientists at the forefront of loneliness research are discovering. Feeling lonely? Meet the people who suffered extreme isolation – then found happiness 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Even when Matthews controlled for mental health problems such as anxiety or depression, which can affect sleep, the link between poor-quality sleep and loneliness remained, “so it seems to be something specific to loneliness”. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Proulx’s stories are bumpy rides through a corner of the American West that seems fertile only in producing rue and loneliness and pain.” New & Noteworthy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Courtney Marie Andrews’s luminous new album, “Old Flowers,” anatomizes the aftermath of breaking up: loneliness, bittersweet memories, recriminations, regrets, temptations, lessons of experience. Taylor Swift’s Heartbreak Dreamscape, and 9 More New Songs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The boredom, anxiety and occasional loneliness of parenting, the career I’d built up as a successful freelance journalist becoming derailed thanks to losing my contacts, confidence and free time – it’s all there. Sex, drugs, honeymoon, motherhood – what if my child reads my diaries? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

As the Harvard Gazette reported, a surprising finding of the survey was the relatively young age of those affected: "61% of those aged 18 to 25 reported high levels" of loneliness. For 2023, I'm giving up loneliness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Part of it is on her, of course, because it’s not right, fair or healthy to look to other people to ease her loneliness for her. Carolyn Hax: How to cut it short when a call runs too long 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

"There's a profound loneliness to people who live by the depth of their convictions," Marling says of The East's central relationship. The East star Brit Marling is a Hollywood connundrum 2013-06-28T13:00:00Z

So would a better understanding of it help tackle loneliness – and explain why stalkers, spree killers and jihadists turn their pain on others? Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Reading was his sole escape hatch and break from loneliness. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

But it’s also a prism for examining situational friendship and the loneliness of public life. He Knew What Jackie Gave Up for the Kennedys. This Is His Story. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Still, one has the sad sense that Paul may soon discover that among the forms of hell on earth, loneliness is among the most agonizing. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

When we sing along, the repetition in his music becomes a mantra that we use to convince ourselves that this life — in all its loneliness and bliss — is real. Perspective | Bill Withers, on repeat 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

The slow, second movement is profoundly beautiful, a distillation of loneliness. Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z

In the showdown between Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, the king curses his court as “ce vaste desert d’hommes” conjuring up the loneliness of a monarch in a “desert” devoid of human companionship. Music Review: ‘Don Carlos,’ in Its Original Tongue, Reveals Intricacies 2013-07-21T22:00:53Z

Help your son distinguish between feelings such as loneliness and disappointment. 9 ways to help boys form the close friendships they crave 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Berger didn’t choose just any genres to work with; he chose genres whose specialty was loneliness. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

I strove to channel that loneliness in my own cyber-horror book. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

It shows his early married life with his childhood sweetheart Elle, their private heartbreak and then his loneliness. Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked! 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

“But then they encounter them, and they have a different experience, and it has to do with music and loneliness. Any time people succeed in connecting seems like a giant victory.” ‘The Band’s Visit’ to Open on Broadway 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It’s about loneliness, loss, memory, passing time and indelible connection: “Come on home,” he pleads. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

In “The Transplant,” a California gambler is conned by both his loneliness and a new Vietnamese acquaintance to stash counterfeit goods in his Orange County garage. In Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Refugees,' wistfulness is an anthem of displacement 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Men with poor health, low incomes, few qualifications and living in rented housing are hit hardest by loneliness, which Independent Age defines as the feeling of not liking isolation. Number of severely lonely men over 50 set to rise to 1m in 15 years 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

There was nothing verifiably lonely about any of these people, and the fact that I identified loneliness in them said a lot more about me than it did them. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

According to the Love in Action Project, sending Valentine Day cards to seniors in nursing homes fosters human connection, curbs loneliness and aids physical and mental health. How to send Valentines to kids in hospitals, nursing home residents and more 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

For many Americans, including me, one of the most immediate and intense feelings in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s electoral victory was loneliness. Art is not an escape — it’s our most powerful weapon against apathy 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Over the course of a year, Walters piecemealed a bank of 17 songs, about half of which encapsulated the stagnation, loneliness and post-Trump despair that left him perpetually bummed. Silver Torches to play from beautiful downer ‘Let It be a Dream’ at Tractor Tavern 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

This strange portrait of him captures not the glory but the loneliness and tension of the sportsman. Which Olympic artwork takes gold? 2012-08-06T14:13:54Z

It's a brilliant and believable account, a compelling picture of a child's loneliness and of the brief, feverish excitement when it ends. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah ? review 2011-03-12T00:06:39Z

The film also addresses themes of loyalty, male vulnerability, sacrifice, and loneliness — which is the subject of a particularly intense exchange. "Standoff at Sparrow Creek": Michigan militia men unravel in this claustrophobic thriller 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Perhaps that is why so many writers who played football chose the loneliness of the goalkeeper's shirt. Footballing authors: who will defend Frank Lampard? 2013-02-15T15:27:16Z

As the narrator of “In the Miso Soup” says, “American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese.” Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z

More than anything, Rima aches with an existential loneliness, a desperate longing to discover other people like herself. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

He’d like to end his relationship with a much younger junior faculty member, but then “he’d have to confront the loneliness that had frightened him into her arms in the first place.” A Comic Novel Reunites a Damaged Dad and His Recalcitrant Offspring 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Walking through the grounds, kept open and manicured even in the absence of performances, the loneliness was overwhelming. Even the Tuning Up Gets an Ovation as Tanglewood Reopens 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Helen Warner No one is better than playwright Conor McPherson at dramatising the loneliness of the Irish male. The Night Alive – review 2013-06-20T16:46:16Z

Moving through loneliness and quiet, the song rises to a swell in the chorus when harmonised voices appear, imploring him to "stay inside". Readers recommend resurrection songs: The results 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

Headlines of violence, escalating suicide rates, and sharp rises in loneliness sketch the edges of the American deficit in community, friendship and reciprocal respect and affection. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Such knowledge hasn’t been acquired easily, and it comes at the price of great loneliness. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

They’re headshot sketches of a soulful guy: He wrinkles his brow, sheds a tear, laments his loneliness. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

An elegant evocation of corrosive loneliness, “The Stranger” is the debut single from Ingrid Andress, a young singer with mild country inclinations but greater loyalty to the female singer-songwriters of the 1990s. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Stories are one of the few things when we’re isolated that can help us stay human and can help take away the loneliness and isolation and fear,” Worsham said. Making Theater Essential, Digitally 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Hilda’s chief solace in this was her grandmother, who, anticipating her own death and Hilda’s loneliness, tried to teach the girl how to communicate spiritually so they could stay in touch afterward. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Boldness can make you lonely, but she never complained of loneliness. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

At one point in the film, while lying in a tub full of flowers, Sumney says, “I’ve needed a space to articulate my own loneliness.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

They each introduce themselves, speaking of their loneliness and feelings of displacement during the pandemic. Outdoors in Bushwick, Gardens of Theatrical Discovery 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“There was a loneliness to him. Even though he had all these glorious things, he was still lonely. So the intensity of his connection to them is much more than many people could ever understand.” Design royalty is all atwitter about the Prince of Chintz auction 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

But the new spin on loneliness is that we ought to welcome it, in modest doses. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Kosky said he was trying to bring together “the loneliness and melancholy of those isolated characters in Fassbinder’s films” with the “wonderful, naughty, Lubitsch quickness, irony and lightness.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The novel picks repeatedly at the social and private pretentions of the characters, revealing the fear of failure and loneliness that drives them from one pathos-drenched scene to the next. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

I think Jean Rhys is a fantastic writer about loneliness; there are many, many books. Art illuminates loneliness: “The experience of loneliness, particularly urban loneliness, is intensely visual” 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Someone else isn’t the only answer to physical or emotional loneliness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She was always the one with answers. Now it’s either/or questions. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

That means that the loneliness of Earth — amid a vast sea of darkness — will be on full display. Exploring the Solar System Anew at the Hayden Planetarium 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

She spent the majority of her childhood alone in her room and this has resulted in feelings of loneliness and self-loathing. Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“It was killing him with its silence and loneliness, making everything ordinary too beautiful to bear.” ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: Despair and Fisticuffs 2012-04-16T12:01:51Z

Critical consent holds second album Sound of Silver to be LCD's best, a collection that fuses disco sensibilities and bounteous percussion with lyrical explorations of loneliness and bereavement. My favourite album 2011-08-04T12:17:00Z

The building itself evolves and reshapes, reacting to William’s moods and preternatural state of grief, loneliness and longing. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Consider the first couplet of “Streetlights,” another of the better songs: “Hold tight for heartbreak/Buckle up for loneliness.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z

But — as you know — there is no loneliness quite like the loneliness you feel when you are with people who degrade you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Guilt about distance intensifies after friends’ reunion 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

What I remembered most from those years on the road was the absoluteness of the loneliness. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Now, as then, we’re still struggling to prove ourselves by how well we do our jobs, but we want other things in our lives, too—chiefly, friends and family to help assuage inevitable loneliness. Review: In Christine, Rebecca Hall Shines as Troubled Newswoman Christine Chubbuck 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Should one live with loneliness and, if so, on what terms? The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg – review 2012-10-05T21:55:11Z

And how such a society could endow one woman’s loneliness with tragic dimensions. Review: A Housekeeper Claims Center Stage in ‘Member of the Wedding’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Transcending these historical moments, Nguyen plumbs the loneliness of human life, the costs of fraternity and the tragic limits of our sympathy. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ingeniously, the movie-list concept serves as an organizing principle, but the true topics of the book’s evocative fragments are loneliness, anomie and desolation. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree

Not only did she believe in his First Vision, Moroni’s visit, and the gold plates, he confessed to his parents that she filled his terrible loneliness. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z

Over “Hunger’s” 88 short chapters, she explores the loneliness and pain of her body’s constraints. Roxane Gay decided to write about being overweight. It took her to some painful places. 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Plays like “A Taste of Honey” and “The Boys in the Band” troubled him as documents of loneliness and self-loathing, and spurred him to write of gay life more affirmatively, more assertively. Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

“There’s sadness and romance and fierceness and loneliness. The piece is constantly shifting tone through its entire 24 minutes.” At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

“His loneliness was now so big that it had become his life,” Galgut writes. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster

I read books all the time to escape the loneliness I felt. Ann McGovern, author of ‘Stone Soup’ and other children’s books, dies at 85 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

His essential loneliness isn't stated, but it is deeply felt. All That Is by James Salter – review 2013-05-11T13:01:01Z

I was on the phone in his living room, looking out at Mount Greylock in the distance—“Williams-tomb,” he called it, a place of isolation and loneliness for him. Lessons from My Father 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Yet in another post he wrote that beneath the joy and fancifulness of his photographs “is a loneliness, a slow whiff of sadness and an everlasting melancholy.” Rodney Smith, Whimsical Photographer, Dies at 68 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Sadly, my husband died and loneliness led me to seek male companionship online. My life in sex: the widow disappointed by online dating 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

There were glorious times—late-night dinners with the girls, solo hikes through the high plains of Wyoming—and there was also a lot of heartbreak, loneliness, and self-doubt. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z

She removes the coat, kicks off her Prada shoes, drapes across a chaise lounge and recounts a dream surrounding typically Polanski themes of loneliness and anxiety. Roman Polanski directs Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham-Carter in Prada 'anti-commercial' 2012-05-22T09:52:00Z

Who else could sing a line like "Oh the loneliness in this world, well it's just not fair" and not only get away with it but sound utterly convincing? An assertive Brian Wilson surveys beloved hits at Greek Theatre 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Was there an upside to the loneliness you inevitably felt? Life after fundamentalist Christianity: One former believer's struggle to find clarity and himself 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

But while some Hopper experts appreciate the wave of interest in the American painter, who died in 1967, they say it’s a mistake to brand him as a patron saint of loneliness and social isolation. Those who say Edward Hopper is the artist of social distancing may be wrong 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The number of men over the age of 50 suffering from severe loneliness in England will increase to more than 1 million in the next 15 years, research based on government statistics has revealed. Number of severely lonely men over 50 set to rise to 1m in 15 years 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

And, indeed, has there ever been more haunting images of loneliness that Lowry's astoundingly atmospheric seascapes? This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Then Mr. Hinterhäuser was simply astonishing in an unbroken hour of Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas, from the gentle loneliness of the first to the thunderous full-forearm cluster chords of the last. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The survey’s findings also showed loneliness is more likely to affect women: 18-to-24-year-olds reported feelings of loneliness more than any other age group, while single people and widows are the most at-risk group. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

He explains it was caused by loneliness and that a visit by his parents three years ago helped him to change. James Corden says he was a castaway long before Desert Island Discs 2012-02-12T00:07:03Z

Harry and Sally experience loneliness together until they realize they rely on each other too much and fall into bed together. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Generally, loneliness seems to be a matter more of a lack of intimate connections than of a lack of social contact,” Baumeister and Leary wrote. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

They confronted scarlet fever, “grippe,” deafness, loneliness and destitution. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

As the titles suggest, Dee Dee’s lyrics glimpse loss, betrayal, loneliness and death, but she sings them calmly, in productions so finely burnished that the sound washes away the sadness. New Music: Dum Dum Girls, Peggy Sue and Helen Sung Release Albums 2014-01-27T22:37:10Z

To alleviate loneliness, one must first recognize the perceptions underlying the emotion, Hawkley and other experts said. Like hunger or thirst, loneliness in seniors can be eased 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Much of Taylor’s best music burns on alienation, on loneliness, yet he’s now dogged by contentment. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

In that song, seemingly a cheerful ode to being alone, it’s unclear where the hermit narrator’s jolliness ends and loneliness begins. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z

A sparsely sweeping meditation on loneliness, “Blue Moon” is disconsolate and hopeful, beautiful and haunting; it shows Beck at his best — and when he’s good, he’s very, very good. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

So what can she, or anyone, do to try to stem their weekend loneliness? The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Those catchy statistics kicked off a spate of alarmist news articles about loneliness. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

That conflagration makes a sharp contrast with the closing eerie quiet of “The Irishman,” where all that remains is an old man’s loneliness. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

It would be hard to overstate the loneliness young Obama felt at that moment, by himself in New York. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

Sobriety, we learn, will not cure duplicity, loneliness or the tendency of human beings to do and say things that may not be in their interest. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

In her second year here, she wavers between loneliness and peace, anxiety and hope. She was South Korea’s superstar ballerina. Now, she’s given it up to try to make it in America. 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

I approached the volume thinking I knew what it would hold, but found myself transported by Rich’s profound exploration of ethical loneliness. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

This fascinated me – it seemed his loneliness overrode his common sense. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The disjunction between Facebook’s sunny communitarian promise and these ambient tremors of unease — the paradox of a deep loneliness in a world of friendship — is summed up in the character of Mark Zuckerberg himself. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z

While dealing with the financial realities of women of a dying generation, “Julie de Carneilhan” is also a meditation on loneliness. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s the loneliness here, and the climate is very confusing.” Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

It deals with friendship, loneliness, abandonment and forgiveness, and though its curious narrative arc means you're never sure exactly where it's going, the film works up a considerable emotional charge by the end. 'When Marnie Was There' deftly creates a magical friendship 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

I want to talk very briefly about the fictions that spoke to me, kept me warm in the loneliness, slowly cajoled me through. Amid depression, bleak stories can be as consoling as self-help 2013-02-04T14:39:32Z

“It’s as tho I’ve been pulled back from a terrible brink of loneliness & lack of communication & hopelessly tumbling over the edge into the void.” My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

My fear would be a return to boredom and loneliness. Pet chicks, pink hair, an old plane: Explore this illustration of readers' pandemic coping habits

His private vision of the universe—both ironic and mystical—includes a search for something beguiling at the heart of experience and explores a loneliness that feels, to me, American.  The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

They can be anything from loneliness to passion. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z

Though the production is cleaner and more minimal than on her previous albums, these songs are grounded in deeply felt loneliness and longing. Best albums of 2016: 10 fantastic artists create an unusually lush and diverse selection of important music 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Currently, we’re awash in data concerning our masculinity crisis, addressing the healthy and emotional wages of male loneliness and a lack of healthy definitions concerning what it means to be a good man. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

There is a loneliness about a bird unanswered. A bird trapped in ICE detention: What it’s like inside the largest immigrant prison in the US 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

S, the Seattle group led by Jenn Ghetto, sang in a wispy but unflinching voice about breakups, betrayal and loneliness while transparent but steely patterns of guitar picking revealed the nervous energy behind them. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

This human support helps depressed people overcome loneliness and develop more effective strategies for dealing with self-defeating behavior, and encourages them to rediscover – or discover – connection, meaning and purpose. Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression | James S Gordon 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The real monster of this movie is not a virus, but loneliness itself. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s good that I don’t have to hang out with other people out of sheer loneliness. The Most Famous Dog in the World on Instagram 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Priscilla’s loneliness is felt, no doubt, but that is all there is. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

They add to the loneliness of the place. The Carpetbagger: The Sound and the Feel of Oscar-Worthiness 2011-02-16T23:28:08Z

Chong convincingly captures the pain, vulnerability and loneliness these three have in common. A Time-Travel Novel Whose Thrills Go Beyond the Speculative 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Her loneliness amid the bourgeois claustrophobia of the Parisian beau monde is evocatively realized in this alluring staging, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Friday evening. Music Review: Hei-Kyung Hong Stars in Willy Decker?s ?Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-08T22:03:54Z

Edward Hopper’s paintings captured a romantic loneliness, finding ominous beauty in scenes of collective isolation. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Orange Is the New Black” has many recurring themes, but few are as prevalent or as powerful as the constant shadow of loneliness and the necessity of connection. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Norma Romano's Magic 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Computers create extraordinarily photorealistic visuals, but here the human touch deepens the story’s themes of loneliness, friendship, the need for home and for being, literally, held. Movie Review: ?The Secret World of Arrietty? From Studio Ghibli 2012-02-17T00:11:00Z

In the meantime, her children’s absence weighs “like a bereavement” and the loneliness hits hardest at certain predictable moments. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Take the weepy “Pretty Paper,” written by Willie Nelson for Roy Orbison 50 or so years ago, and delivered with just as much loneliness here as Orbison ever mustered. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Philip Marlowe doesn't have friends: his defining quality is loneliness. Can John Banville resuscitate Philip Marlowe? 2012-08-09T11:44:54Z

These guys are fast becoming the theater’s poets laureate of human loneliness. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The loneliness can be made all the more bitter by the knowledge that it wasn’t always this way. 2010-02-06T03:40:00Z

The family moved often, from small country town to small country town, and Delia, shy and bookish, began writing stories to combat her loneliness. Delia Fiallo, Master of the Telenovela, Is Dead at 96 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

Those elements might be present, but they’re never allowed to obscure what is essentially an empathetic, textured portrait of loneliness and loss. ‘Skyman’ Review: Ready for an Alien Reunion 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

This perfect moment exudes an aching loneliness, the boxed-in isolation of the stranded suburbanite. Art Review: ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live’ at Yale Art Gallery 2012-08-30T21:55:20Z

At a time of loneliness and anxiety, it extols and exemplifies one of theater’s greatest virtues — communion. ‘The Hang’ Review: Taylor Mac Enfolds Us When We Need It Most 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Still, at its best Keeping Up with the Joneses riffs on something very real: the existential loneliness of living in a place that’s just too perfect. The Joneses Tries to Shake Up the 'Hood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But it is also admirably non-judgmental in its sympathetic portrayal of the Kid, and Banks writes movingly on the loneliness of addiction. Lost Memory of Skin – review 2013-02-08T17:50:01Z

The fact that he painstakingly individuates Thomas as a being turned inward by fright and loneliness is noteworthy. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

This was her first real taste of public disapproval, and the solidification of the documentary's dominant emotion: loneliness. Isn't she delicate? "Miss Americana" spotlights Taylor Swift's eating disorder & loneliness 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

A sequence of narrative poems about an Episcopal priest who works as a chaplain at a hospital and prison and struggles with loneliness. National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Their lives are very much about the immediate present and getting dopamine hits to their brains from social media, smart phones, and other technology to combat their deep feelings of loneliness and social atomization. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

“If there is one thing that’s the enemy of wellbeing it’s loneliness,” says Robinson. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, the reason all that’s been postponed — the social distancing required to contain the coronavirus — is the very reason readers might find this “loneliness story” more relatable than ever. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

But just as often, they’re observational character sketches that examine addiction, desperation and loneliness, a relative rarity in today’s id-obsessed hip-hop landscape. Your week in Seattle music: Katy Perry, Drake vs. Lil Wayne and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

In a touching speech of acceptance, she spoke of “the loneliness of the long-distance dancer.” Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

But, as Mr Stach vividly shows, loneliness, not humiliation, was Kafka’s first formative experience. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The whole production aches with an unspoken loneliness. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Emily Dickinson called loneliness “the horror not to be surveyed,” and what is writing if not crying out for someone to bear witness to a part of who we are? Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

Ashcroft's best lyrics were rooted in mortality, loneliness and depression – his father's death, struggle in Wigan, personal betrayal – and he is understandably seeking to express something more joyous now. RPA and the United Nations of Sound 2010-06-16T20:29:00Z

One of Sinatra’s most explored themes was loneliness. Always Lonely: A Visual Celebration of Sinatra 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The play, too, is a feminist act, placing a Hermione type — a bookish, whip-smart woman — at its center and forcing her to do something about her own loneliness. Review: ‘[Porto]’ Features a Bar Regular Looking for Love 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

In an HBO film, the 1983 Between Friends, as a divorcée coping with loneliness, she mulls an aphorism: "Nothing lasts, do you notice that?" Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z

But if you think your friends are your long-term solution to loneliness, you’re an idiot. Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The hymn is a confrontation, spurred by agony, then loneliness, then immobilizing veneration. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

But there is also a darker side, especially at a time when loneliness among the elderly is such a compelling issue. Love in the age of living for ever: could your marriage last 80 years? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

In situations like that,“The Office” took our most relatable fears — rejection, public humiliation, loneliness — laid them bare, and let us laugh at them. "The Office" is leaving Netflix in 2020 and fans are already in mourning 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Inside Sinatra was his voice, one that communicated the vulnerabilities and loneliness of the American male. Frank Sinatra: Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in two new biographies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

He emphasized that it wasn't just prison violence Chol Soo Lee was facing, but depression, loneliness, isolation, and expectations of wanting to put a happy face on for his supporters and not bring them down. "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Set in a suburban dystopia, “Men, Women and Children” examines the loneliness of a world in which Facebook messaging, texting and chatting online with fellow World of Warcraft players serve as intimate communication. A Raw Voice of Young Manhood Makes a Bid for Literary Respect 2011-06-22T21:09:48Z

Their daughter lives in the next building, so even the death of one of the couple won’t spell utter loneliness. The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Watching her walk away, though, in her velvet slip-ons and wrinkled blouse, I felt a strange pang, a slow pin of sadness that I suppose could best be described as loneliness. When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Your loneliness could have deeper roots than your marriage alone. Ask Amy: Long-term marriage is lonely, lacks spark

If I keep myself happy outside of the show, loneliness doesn’t hit me more than the average person. He’s touring in his dream role in ‘Hamilton.’ Here’s how this actor keeps himself going. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

They also sharply etch portraits of loneliness and isolation that maybe ease a little bit, at least for a night. Review | ‘The Band’s Visit’ settles in at the Kennedy Center 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

That threw the distinction between heart-wrenching loneliness and blissful solitude into relief; it made the moments of connection with strangers that much more magical. In a Year of Perpetual Motion, Moments That Stopped Time 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

What emerges from this structure is an ethereal, almost dreamlike mediation on loneliness, isolation, and belonging. Netflix's "I Lost My Body" will have you rooting for a severed hand 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Hawkley explains the result by noting that loneliness is a signal that an essential need — a desire for belonging — isn’t being met. Like hunger or thirst, loneliness in seniors can be eased 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The L.A. artist’s closest touchstone may in fact be Philip Guston, whose late work employed a roughhewn graphic style to paint brilliant images of existential dread and loneliness. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

This is not the first time sleep and loneliness have been linked. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

But will treating loneliness like a disease, rather than an existential question, work to ease their pain? Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

"I don't judge these women, I understand them fully and what leads them to this situation, the loneliness they struggle with." Exploitation, loneliness in sex tourism film at Cannes 2012-05-18T15:21:41Z

Thus the book is about the meaning of home as much as it is about loneliness: where do any of us belong? The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

“Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel,” he writes. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z

Plotting a girlish prank on him one day, she was exposed to a piercing glimpse of his profound despair and loneliness. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

Wanting Miss Julie New musical, set in the Hamptons and inspired Strindberg's classic tale of loneliness and desire; for mature audiences. L.A. theater openings, March 20-27: 'Casa Valentina' and more 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

She’s thinking and composing her way through disappointment, loneliness and uncertainty. Alex Lilly Keeps Her Cool, and Her Complexity on ‘2% Milk’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

I’d heard the statistics about loneliness and longevity, pointing to the fact that having a companion later in life can possibly help people, and men specifically, live longer. My 70-Year-Old Father Joined Tinder 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Why don’t we talk about our loneliness very often? Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

It considers some of the most pressing concerns of this technology-fuelled era, such as the illusion of privacy and the loneliness of hyper-connectedness. Searching and slouching 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

His father, an army officer, had died in 1980; an only child, he was overwhelmed by loneliness when his mother died in 2000. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

The insightful stories in this dark debut collection are about “loneliness, desire, hope and self-awareness.” 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

But there is also then the loneliness around that. "Hilariously Infertile": Karen Jeffries on finding the comedy in reproduction 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Yes, he has this hyper-realist degree of detail, but there’s nothing sentimental. These are tough works — the bleak winter landscapes, old age, death. There’s just this aching loneliness.” All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Every sentence started with a noise like a peeved cat, or a baptist healer in the throes of glossolalia, then built to a wordless shambles before dying of loneliness. TV's five most memorable mumblers 2013-07-16T11:45:22Z

There’s a strong undercurrent of loneliness in “Yes, Chef.” ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z

He sings about varieties of desperation and loneliness, about withdrawals and breakups, about longing and resignation. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z

In an episode about loneliness, she teaches viewers to invent a companion out of cloth and papier-mache, citing research showing that people tend to lose friends after the age of 25. A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe what sparks between Joe and Dottie is just lust or loneliness or circumstance; maybe it’s the blinding clarity of American idealism and American insanity. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z

Can they all cast aside their loneliness and come together again? 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

A lovely, low-key drama about benevolence and loneliness, "Call Me Chihiro," is as charming as its title character. In the affable "Call Me Chihiro," a former sex worker provides friendly bento comforts to all 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Those first two lines, with the fluttering rhythm and the favourite "i" sounds of "rises" and "reminds" convey premonition and sighing loneliness. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z

A little round table with a bottle of booze and a phone evokes the loneliness backstage. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

His loneliness was as palpable as his boasts of self-sufficiency; he spoke often of his daughter and ex-wife and the years they spent together in the cabin. Perspective | Nothing really happens on ‘The Last Alaskans,’ which is why it’s still the best reality show 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Thoughts that are not exactly real and are constructed by yourself through this framework of loneliness. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

The artist himself once said of “Nighthawks”: “I didn’t see it as particularly lonely,” even as he conceded, “Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.” Those who say Edward Hopper is the artist of social distancing may be wrong 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s unclear exactly why loneliness is so harmful, but it seems that immune responses are altered in those who perceive themselves as lonely. How to win friends – and keep them 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Helplines can also reduce loneliness, at least in the short term. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

She sings about classic Americana subjects — love, loneliness, work, wandering, faith and death — in songs that look toward old-time country, 1960s Memphis soul, backwoods blues and the Bob Dylan of “Blood on the Tracks.” Music Review: Valerie June at the Highline Ballroom 2013-12-31T19:30:43Z

Later, when Dodd makes a toast at his daughter’s wedding banquet, we see both his arrogance and his insecurity, and catch a flicker of the loneliness that feeds his insatiable and destructive hunger for love. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z

Out from Wed The American George Clooney communicates the loneliness of the career assassin. This week's new films 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Raised in rural Virginia as a “mixed-race kid torn between being a tomboy and a girly-girl,” the rapper grew up feeling an unshakable loneliness but eventually found relief on a computer screen. How to make friends (with Drake) and influence people — Meet Babeo Baggins of Barf Troop 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Which means that the eager-to-please quotient of a musical about the quest by a bevy of souls, alive and dead, to alleviate loneliness, is still amped up a bit too frantically. Review | ‘Beetlejuice’ cleans up its act for Broadway. It’s not a raging success, but it’ll do. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Written while he was touring, “Destroyed” is “broken-down electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m.,” he says, and indeed the music has an echoing, futuristic loneliness. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z

The internet is not a silver bullet for loneliness – indeed, it may distort our natural behaviour and our understanding of what friendship is. We just clicked: why I set out to find a new group of friends online 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Much of the time I lived in Japan, I suffered from a brutal crush of loneliness and isolation. A Guide to Tokyo, From an Outsider (and Insider) 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The most affecting passages are the scenes between Jo and Donny, in which they sit on the porch and gradually reveal the loneliness and disappointment that have settled in their hearts. Review: In ‘Nice Girl,’ a Sudden Ray of Hope in a Dead-End Life 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Which brings me back to the cultural phenomenon of New Year’s loneliness. After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year’s still so rough? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Pérez's use of fluid lines, muted color palette and characters with haunted eyes capture the show's eerie beauty and themes of loneliness, all set in a bustling apartment building. Those magical "Only Murders in the Building" main titles – including each hidden Easter egg 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The women in these fables cope with discrimination, loneliness and abandonment, among other things. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

"Yet NEVER, until last Friday, have I felt such a desperate sense of loss and loneliness," she wrote. Letters of grief to Jacqueline Kennedy brought to life in film 2013-09-22T18:10:31Z

Beneath her formidable wisdom and accomplishments swirl all the old anxieties of loneliness and shame. Review: ‘The Children Act,’ by Ian McEwan puts beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial

I sensed loneliness, unease; being at home again seemed to bring about a vulnerability in him that made me smug. Modern Love: Getting to That Safe Place 2012-03-29T19:04:04Z

The suggestion is that loneliness and frustration were what made Forster productive. EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

Played amid chilly, windswept weather on Monday evening at Pioneer Works, the cavernous factory turned cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the primary mood of “Columbia Icefield” is loneliness. Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the times when my loneliness settled into my chest like a chronic ache, I withdrew like Morioka. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Recovery of an MMO Junkie’ 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

How they manage their pain and their confusion and their depression and their loneliness and their insecurities — those things are painkillers. Ethan Hawke on coping with failure, success and insecurity: “Sometimes I feel that my whole life has been a war with my nervous system” 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is a collection about loneliness, and its connection to labor. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Zhang, who grew up reading “Little House on the Prairie,” said she wanted to write a frontier adventure story that explored the loneliness of the immigrant experience, and the clash between civilization and wilderness. With a Chinese American Gunslinger, He’s Challenging the Whiteness of Westerns 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

While the resulting sense of loneliness is not unique to the mildly autistic, as Russell’s quote itself makes clear, having AS significantly hinders one’s ability to cure it. Dating with Asperger’s 2013-12-06T13:00:00Z

We are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness, even as we live immersed in our technologies of hyperconnection. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

What can you add that will help you weather these periods of loneliness? I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tempo is patient, with ticking, twitching drum-machine sounds and samples from Rose Royce’s tearful song about loneliness, “I’m Going Down.” The Playlist: Iggy Pop’s Jazzy Whimsy, and 12 More New Songs 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's a unique kind of loneliness, brought on by our shared cultural delusion that money does indeed buy happiness. “America is becoming more like Russia” says Russian-born novelist Gary Shteyngart 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Support bubbles, or quarantine pods, might be just the cure for loneliness, depression and anxiety after months of social distancing and isolation amid the coronavirus health crisis, some experts say. Coronavirus: Are quarantine 'support bubbles' safe? 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Feelings of loneliness are not solely due to isolation or social distancing,” said Dr. Aslinia. Americans lonelier than ever as a result of coronavirus crisis, survey finds 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

“In her, he recognized a loneliness that resonated with his own.” Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Others believed that the more communal nature of society and the stronger family ties in poor countries inoculated people against depression, which was linked to the loneliness, stress and materialistic culture of western life. Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

But it’s perfect for Ms. Bamford, who uses anxiety, loneliness and depression as unlikely vehicles to cheerful laughs. Critic’s Notebook: Maria Bamford’s ‘Special Special Special!’ Online 2012-12-17T05:09:03Z

After nearly 18 months without school, sports or structure, many teens also are feeling disconnected from peers, resulting in mental health effects caused by loneliness. How teens can reignite friendships as they return to school 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

His purple coat flapping open and long scarf waving behind him like Isadora Duncan, he radiates deep loneliness, the kind of pain that swims in the eyes of a person who pretends to be fine. "Only Murders in the Building" makes me long to reconnect with our elders 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

It feels like life: a little bigger than any of us on our own, our moments of loneliness less unique than we imagine. Review: Jane Urquhart’s ‘The Night Stages,’ a Novel of Melancholy and Missed Chances 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Having been married for nearly 60 years, he says it has helped him deal with the grief and loneliness. ‘If you can run, you can do anything’: why over 65s are at park 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Their needs gave a structure to formless days; their affection was an antidote to the loneliness of social distancing; their energy was an excuse to get out of the house. In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

And yet Sister Helen is compelled to recognize his loneliness, his terror, and his humanity. “Dead Man Walking,” Revisited: A Prophetic Argument Against Capital Punishment 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

His documentary film to be completed in the next few months will be black and white, part history, and like Ingmar Bergman’s work, will deal with existential issues of mortality, loneliness and faith. Poet returns to New Britain to make film 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

That her brave, pathetic loneliness nevertheless came through clearly was the work of the soprano Yunah Lee, an assertive, mature Butterfly. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

She makes it clear that Dolly is talking about real hardships: the anxiety of work and the loneliness of a widow. Review: The ‘Dolly’ Parade Marches On, Now With a New Star 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And children are raised like livestock, defined only by their loneliness. New French Fiction: From Farm to Table, With Feasting in Between 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s as if these works had been made by a shipwrecked sailor — like Robinson Crusoe or Tom Hanks in “Cast Away” — to allay loneliness and provide spiritual hope and courage. Mike Nelson: ‘Gang of Seven’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

At its heart, “Aspie Seeks Love” is a parable about loneliness — a condition which afflicts everyone at some point in their lives and for far too many proves incurable. Dating with Asperger’s: A new documentary follows a lonely Aspie’s search for love 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

He’s completely out of his element, intent on using his free time to become a writer but soon becoming bored and restless, blotting out his loneliness with alcohol. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Odenkirk’s character runs with the story, stretching it out and making it uncomfortably personal until it turns into an oddball confession of loneliness. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the pandemic has brought on whole new kinds of difficulties and loneliness for people like me. Dave Grohl: deaf like me – except, of course, not like me 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

We talked about how to translate the themes of claustrophobia and loneliness into visuals. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an album about alienation and loneliness disguised as pop music with glorious crescendos and sunburst choruses. Tame Impala and the lonely pursuit of perfection 2012-11-08T18:56:00Z

After all the pageantry, we — the viewers and the lead characters —are left with an imperfect, but pleasant, commentary on loneliness, isolation, and a search for one's self. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

His warm, earthy authenticity has a salutary effect on Don, whose hauteur masks a deep loneliness. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“What brought us together,” says Jane, “was loneliness. We were both very lonely people, and then we found one another.” Jane Hawking: ‘There were four of us in our marriage’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

As in my early childhood, the loneliness felt like fertile ground for other things—ambition, creative impulse. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

This gave me a hyper-awareness that I was an outsider, and I coped with the anger and loneliness by gradually aligning myself with other outsiders. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

And maybe then, in the humble face of so much loneliness and pain, we will do the real and final work to end this thing. Perspective | The ‘commander in grief’ steps up to the microphone 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

And because to stop would be to face the depths of his loneliness. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

Take “Empathy School & Love Story,” the writer and director Aaron Landsman’s engaging diptych on varieties of loneliness, which runs through April 30 at the Abrons Arts Center. Review: ‘Empathy School & Love Story’ Plumbs the Varieties of Loneliness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

What helps drive the narrative over such annoying scenes is the subtext dealing with Cheryl’s radical loneliness and groping efforts to communicate. Miranda July’s ‘The First Bad Man’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Exploring floor after floor of the bank, Constans becomes overpowered with loneliness. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

His father’s loneliness and his solitary vigil with that pitiless world both saddened and frightened Glenn, I suspect. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The epidemic of loneliness has opened up fascinating and lucrative business opportunity. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

We see vulnerability laid bare upon a hotel bed, when the weakened Salim meets another worn soul – no matter how fantastical – and each offers the other refuge from their loneliness. How American Gods changed the game for gay sex on TV 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

She sings about pop’s eternal topics as a young woman caught up in them: love and lust, intimacy and betrayal, longing and loneliness and tentative trust. Camila Cabello and Harry Styles, Teen-Pop Alumni, Think Bigger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Ian Targett as the fugitive hero is simultaneously brusque and dapper, and conveys the Maugham-like cynicism of a man who casually announces: "After being married 19 years, I'm used to loneliness." The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z

Macaulay’s 1956 novel, her last, is a uniquely affecting and funny period piece which not only conjures 1950s Turkey but is at once brilliantly revealing on love, sex and loneliness. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Drew is also her brother’s caregiver, and Ms. Bailey expertly conveys both the exhaustion and the loneliness of that role. | 'Answers to Nothing': ?Answers to Nothing,? by Matthew Leutwyler ? Review 2011-12-02T05:33:02Z

She entered quarantine alone — a “storm of isolation and loneliness,” as she described it. Mackenzie Davis Catches Fire 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

“What can you do to alleviate your loneliness? We’re all struggling. Everyone I know has less money to spend.” The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

This is problematic because of the close relationship between loneliness and mental health – it is linked to increased stress, depression, paranoia, anxiety, addiction, cognitive decline and is a known factor in suicide. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Funny, yes, but on the other side of this laughter is the loneliness of being an alien on your own soil. Bearing ‘The Weight’ of Feeling Alone 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

There were so many things I wanted to say: You showed me how honesty can suck the sting out of just about everything — worry, embarrassment, loneliness, fear, even the bafflements of the human body. Why ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Still Matters 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

It may be impossible not to find pieces of yourself reflected in Evan’s loneliness and yearning to be accepted. Young Adult Books That Plunge Into the Ecstasies, and Agonies, of Teenage Life 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But for some people experiencing loneliness, the idea that poor-quality sleep can be improved, and can reduce their social isolation, may be a wake-up call. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Indeed, his accomplishments in loneliness are nearly as towering as his accomplishments in song, and it’s the race problem, in part, that apparently made this the heartbreaking case. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

In this poignant, pensive novel, a Dutchman living in New York after the 9/11 attacks seeks relief from his loneliness by playing cricket. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

But there was a certain loneliness about him. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z

“The terrible loneliness of one’s soul in such moments!” she confided in her diary. The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

You think, “This is supposed to alleviate me from all this sadness and loneliness, and yet it’s just intensifying these feelings — but the single must have it much worse.” In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z

The essay’s ultimate focus is on fox hunting, but it also explores loneliness and grief, which, as demonstrated in her best-selling 2014 memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” she writes about beautifully. Review | Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ — like ‘H Is for Hawk’ — is a beautiful, poignant celebration of the natural world 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“The electronic swarm is a negation of loneliness that prepares the way for the new ideologies of totalitarianism.” Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

It emphasizes the isolation and the loneliness and the grimness of this whole thing that everybody’s living through. How Matthew Warchus Generated ‘Heat’ in an Empty Theater 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

In a poignant group of small prints, Fumiko Imano poses with her double, a twin she granted herself by photographic means when loneliness prevailed. Informality and improvisation in photo exhibit at Little Big Man Gallery 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

He even sought her permission to continue his affair, and expected her to empathize with his loneliness, she says. 2010-02-03T21:40:00Z

And the loneliness of a man and woman who are estranged not only from each other but also from their own deeper selves is emphasized by the antiseptic vastness of their surroundings. | 'Three Hotels': Marital Bankruptcy Filed in Faraway Places 2011-07-03T19:09:30Z

But it's Mary Kate Wiles who steals the show as Lydia, whose hyperactive party girl persona masks a growing sense of loneliness. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z

In his middle school, he was one of only a few Chinese American students, and he drew upon his feelings of difference and loneliness to create “American Born Chinese.” Gene Luen Yang named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is also why so many great photographs concern loneliness. Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

For a story about female empowerment, it is vexing that Ken's neediness, loneliness and identity crisis hijack the plot for long stretches and force Barbie to help him, not the reverse. In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

Isolation and loneliness can be a common part of a disabled person's experience, especially with the communication barriers that often arise when trying to interact with an often-resistant, ableist world. “Only Murders in the Building” star on the creation of Theo, the show’s conscience 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

But then he turns his sea-blue stare outward, and the loss and loneliness in his eyes lance right through you. Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Revival of ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z

Standing near the pier, he sings “Lonely Town,” a perfect—and perfectly evocative—ballad, one that means so much more nearly twenty-five years after Bernstein’s death: you can feel his queer loneliness in it. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

There's nonstop action and the conflicts are big-ticket conflicts: good versus evil, the loneliness of the hero. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

With our alternative old-age plan, we hope to avoid that loneliness. Why I’ll be spending my golden years with my golden girls 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The New York Times review praised the show for a “vitality and sensuality that remind us that every life is touched by loneliness and failure.” Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Based on animal research, Hurlemann said, we know oxytocin is crucial to social bonds – could the hormone also be used to treat loneliness? Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Curing loneliness seems like a morally sound idea, but experts warn that these “solutions” may have identified the wrong problem. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

When Daisy and Violet raise their voices in urgent harmony, they radiate a strength that’s powerfully affecting, because we know that even in their loneliness, unlike the rest of us, they will never be alone. ‘Side Show’ in a New Production at the Kennedy Center 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The pain and sorrow are unambiguous on Feist’s new album, “Pleasure,” a set of lo-fi songs that confront and seek to exorcise heartache, loneliness, betrayal and despair. Feist and Nick Cave Exorcise Different Kinds of Demons 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The chantey was, historically, a release valve for loneliness, fear and oppression. TikTok’s sea chanteys — how life under the pandemic has mirrored months at sea 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Staving off loneliness, Lui would send a daily email of her musings on celebrity to two of her former colleagues. Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

It is Mike, rather than a female character, who eventually is hurt by the casual sex he invites out of loneliness. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

In deciding how to display the things he acquired, Pamuk was struck by "their loneliness," and it led him to "the shamanic belief that objects too have spirits." | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z

The film’s bleached-out palette, with its muted colors — and the sometimes harsher fluorescent light of the home — heightens the atmosphere of loneliness. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z

“It’s been so long since I felt really known,” Mering admits with plaintive candor, playing wallflower at a party where everyone else seems immune to the loneliness she feels. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

If loneliness is at all motivating her, then maybe extra efforts to be in touch would help meet that need. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When a high-maintenance friend wants to join you on your vacation 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The film conveys his loss, loneliness, bewilderment – and ultimately his sense of rapture at his new homeland. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

They talked through and around these issues — Lucy’s father’s mental illness and cruelty, the shame of being poor, the loneliness — their silences as eloquent as their conversation. Her Name Is Lucy Barton. Their Job Is Ushering Her to the Stage. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

George Clooney returns, setting aside the warm and witty persona that his fans love, and giving them instead one of his darkest and most unsympathetic characters: an ice-cold professional killer marooned in loneliness and fear. The American ? review 2010-10-15T22:00:00Z

But unhappily married people live with a particularly viral strain of loneliness, and the interesting thing about loneliness is it forces you to confront yourself. Modern Love: Modern Love: I Was Married, but Dancing by Myself 2012-11-30T16:31:33Z

Behind their unprepossessing exteriors lurk traces of loneliness, homesickness, fear or affection. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z

The film is a slow-burner: a study in loneliness and alienation, whose unexpected ending and ambiguous aftermath require us to reassess all that has gone before. Easier With Practice ? review 2010-12-02T22:05:00Z

I used to see those adverts on TV about how loneliness kills. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

For any female character who fails the commitment test, a fate worse than loneliness awaits. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

For me, it tends to be sorrow or loneliness or confusion. Neil Gaiman on making art, mistakes and his 'View from the Cheap Seats' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

At the beginning of “Fear,” the dominant feeling is loneliness. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

But with a stretch of songs near the end of the album, Eilish turns to thoughts of grief, suicide and loneliness. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

He told The New York Times the arrangement was to offset some of the loneliness of shooting on location. 8 surprising facts about Bob Odenkirk 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Aside from “Bonne Journée,” the lyrics on “Multitude” are often bleak, pointed or acerbic, with characters expressing loneliness and resentment, anger and frustration, set to delicate arrangements and impeccable melodies. Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s about aspiration and hustle and dreams, but it’s also about homesickness and alienation and loneliness. ‘Party of Five’ and ‘Little America’: Immigrant Stories That Get the Job Done 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

“She embraced life with a joyous ferocity, though she never could escape a fundamental darkness created by loneliness,” which she inherited from her quietly intellectual father. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Be there for her” by being there with her — and temper your own loneliness, too. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Learning the value of limited time 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The media will bang on about dementia and loneliness, but ignore them. Age against the machine: the secret to enjoying a long life 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Set to the spiritual “Oh, Glory,” the soloist’s elegant balancing and streamlined motion conjure the potential risk, exhilaration and loneliness of flight. This D.C.-based choreographer creates dances about trailblazers, hoping you’ll embrace their ideals 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Cheaper than fish, more accessible than fresh fruit, simpler than a long-distance phone call to Beijing in which he felt compelled to hide his difficulties, his loneliness and alienation. Junk Food Was Our Love Language 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Now Rachel cannot stand “the absolute loneliness, the bottomless homesick loneliness of years upon years of lies, the deep cold void of a loneliness no mortal can imagine.” Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

At one point in the book, Ms. Gilpin writes that with success comes loneliness. Betty Gilpin Is a Vivid Talker 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

On those earlier records, you could sometimes hear him work the pedals as he accompanied himself on piano; he was as introspective, as holy-seeming in his loneliness, as Sufjan Stevens circa “Seven Swans.” Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The first one came in 1893 when Edvard Munch captured the fundamental loneliness of the human condition in a silent slurry of oil, tempera and crayon. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Soon enough their loneliness takes a back seat to the much larger threat involving the discovery of yet another insidious Dalek plan. Like 2020, the Dr. Who special "Revolution of the Daleks" is dark 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Her finest film, Somewhere, returned to the theme of the loneliness of the long-term hotel guest and nabbed the Golden Lion prize at Venice. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z

Some people need to process whatever happened with their families, or the experience of going through that time without family or friends and “dealing with feelings of rejection or loneliness,” MacNair says. Perspective | New Year’s Day is trash 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

“If there’s nothing more to life than what we already know,” Guy says, “then there is nothing but worries, self-doubt, regret and loneliness.” ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 3: Mulder Rediscovers His Monster Mojo 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The feeling of loneliness signalled the sort of isolation that put early humans in danger of animal attack. Optimism, friendship and tidy socks – the secret to living to 100 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

What is loneliness, exactly, and why do we feel it at all? Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.” Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Meghan's talking about her sense of isolation, her loneliness, and her despair. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Their impossible separation becomes a metaphor for human loneliness, but also for interconnectedness. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z

There is no one to blame but the stigma of loneliness, the stigma of asking for help, the stigma of mental illness, the stigma of being famous and hurting. “Blame is not a conversation": Rose McGowan defends Asia Argento after Anthony Bourdain's suicide 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Sun’s collection is an almost too-perfect companion to the present anxiety, exhaustion and loneliness wrought by the pandemic. Personal Escapes From Daily Anxiety, Political Strife and Childhood Trauma 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

No one who judges her, she said in a text message, has “any inkling of the level of loneliness which would lead” to her missteps. Music: Sinead O?Connor?s ?How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?? 2012-02-10T12:58:00Z

He knew there can be contentment alone just as often as there can be loneliness among company. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

And, for her particularly, it’s a recipe for loneliness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is the child-free/child-having divide between these sisters-in-law too vast? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

“That loneliness was a factor” that exacerbated their addiction, she says. Old folks: The next addicts? 2012-07-25T15:46:00Z

They feel at once like tender caresses and howls of loneliness. Summer art exhibition highlights around the nation 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

A tough guy with Bond-like sophistication and savoir-faire, who sang with uncommon tenderness about loneliness and yearning. Review: ‘Sinatra: The Chairman,’ His World, His Way 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Blue Valentine strives to paint that shadow of loneliness and fear which drives many to marriage – only to find themselves more lonely and afraid than ever. Blue Valentine ? review 2011-01-13T15:00:00Z

There is no loneliness quite like the feeling of being alone in your own marriage. Ask Amy: Frustrated husband finds passion elsewhere 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In “Iris and Her Friends” he wrote of his loneliness growing up on the English coast, coping with a stutter, feeling ignored by his older, sportier brothers. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

This includes a competition on Twitter to summarise any of opera's serpentine plots in 140 characters, and recent work based on the loneliness of London commuters. Classics to share Royal Opera House stage with experimental works 2010-05-02T14:29:00Z

But the album is a pretty big break-up record with feelings of loneliness. Newman goes it alone 2013-10-14T07:14:44Z

Visually, in its composition there are these wide shots in which Farrow is framed within frames, and you feel a combination of loneliness and psychic claustrophobia. Five Influences on the Horror Film ‘Watcher’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

But the ache of loneliness made me feel worse. Ending a pregnancy in the last days of Roe 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s too clever for that, too sympathetic toward addiction and grief, and too understanding of the loneliness of the unloved. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

“I had a life of just loneliness, and I didn’t know what I was doing, and my family weren’t around, and so I turned inward,” he said. From Lost Soul in London to Glory Off Broadway 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Tending to his own loneliness, still mourning his wife’s early death, he demurred. Review | David Grossman’s new novel presents a stand-up comic in crisis 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

They throb with loneliness and fume with disappointment. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

As a follow-up to his short story collection "Monstress," Tenorio continues to illuminate the plight of the Filipino immigrant, caught in a state of otherness and often loneliness. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

But loneliness is simply being alone and not liking it, says Maitland. How to be alone: ‘I feel most alive when I'm with my own thoughts’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Your loneliness may stem from your own problems relating to people. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man finds that living with his folks isn’t a turn-on 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

An intelligent and quiet child, Nava retreated from an unhappy household—and from his alcoholic, abusive stepfather—into books, cultivating “habits of secrecy and loneliness,” becoming “a sissy with fangs.” A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

An album that Samo described to Fader magazine as being “about heartbreak and the hypnotic loneliness of Los Angeles,” “Friend of Mine” taps the genre's repetitive propulsion and synthetic tones while heading somewhere else entirely. DJ Dodger Stadium: House music and 'the hypnotic loneliness of L.A.' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

He confesses that “I used to thrive on loneliness but now I depend on friends.” ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich friendship of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s too clever for that, too sympathetic toward addiction and grief, and too understanding of the loneliness of the unloved.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘She Walks with Apes’ and ‘Fauda’ 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Even if it turned out to be all in my mind, I wondered what else this deep loneliness might compel me to do. Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Phillips came back strong with his last performance, singing Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight” in a way that imputed a tender loneliness and sexual longing to the song’s narrator. ArtsBeat: Joshua Ledet Is Voted Off 'American Idol' 2012-05-18T03:17:55Z

That paradox runs like a wire through this book, which so poignantly expresses the loneliness of pining for one’s own homeland. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

In her new memoir, she takes on loneliness, vacillating between hope and fear and, ultimately, stumbling into something profound. Lane Moore turns a dismal childhood into laughs 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

But it’s one of those books about loneliness that, on every page, makes you feel less alone. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Romance scams, I decided, weren’t about being tricked by someone, they were about tricking yourself – telling yourself lies, to keep loneliness at bay. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Solondz's sensibility. Don't underestimate this 'Dark Horse' 2012-08-02T20:12:04Z

Amanda Knox: By the Book The author of “Waiting to Be Heard” says that reading Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping” in prison helped, because it explores themes of loneliness and alienation. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

White wrote in his most celebrated essay, does bestow upon its citizens the “gift of loneliness,” if you can call it that. Everybody Goes to Burger Heaven 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The backstage area around this record may be rammed, but loneliness catches your ear again and again. Phoenix: Bankrupt! – review 2013-04-20T23:05:05Z

“That journey can involve some extra loneliness if you find a group you don’t fit with,” Brown warns. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

And thematically, where “Willow” is about “numbness” and “touching but not being able to feel,” “Madison” is about “loneliness” and wanting someone who is just out of reach, Dahl said. To Go Big, Sloppy Jane Went Underground 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Good Enemy” is a mélange of a play — about oppression and democracy, cowardice and bravery, love and loneliness. ‘Good Enemy’ Review: Finding Second Chances 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Eric thought instead that we ought to try to colonize Mars: Men like the harvesters were well equipped for the loneliness of space and the daily work of planting and harvesting. Food, faith and farming in the apocalypse: The coronavirus pandemic and the rural-urban divide 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

Most essential for Hall, perhaps, is the notion of writing: Her chapters unfold as a series of letters, journal entries, bits of testimony, all expressing states of exile, loneliness. In 'Speak,' distinct voices from distinct eras ponder human connection 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The loneliness of those little arms and legs. Working at an abortion clinic challenged my pro-choice views — and confirmed them 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Now, more isolated than ever, I find myself nostalgic for the pretty loneliness of those mornings. The best place to feel lonely is in a bagel shop 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

And yet the Kanye of 12 months ago and the Kanye of today aren’t so far apart: instability, loneliness, a sense that he was being treated unfairly, a continuing quest to be heard. Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

As “Cost of Living” begins, Eddie is certainly looking for connection — and redemption, and a way out from under the specter of loneliness since his wife’s death. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

I envisioned half a century of loneliness, and then spent the day researching marital separations. Modern Love: Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin 2011-07-08T19:05:31Z

The Great Gatsby's core emotions – loneliness, emptiness, misplaced nostalgia – are the core American emotions; you can never get out from under them. The Great Gatsby never makes a great movie 2013-05-13T05:00:00Z

Miming the story of a woman confronting her unfaithful god of a husband, Ms. Shivalingappa at first establishes the woman’s sorrow and loneliness. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa’s ‘Akasha’ Finds Physical Precision 2013-06-27T22:18:30Z

More romantic loneliness followed in the encore, the unctuous slow movement of Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Discovering each other is a heaven-sent cure for loneliness, and Nicole is fascinated by Jasmine's wealthy background and carefree attitude. Film review: Kicks 2010-06-03T22:15:00Z

But the loneliness of this way of living becomes evident when Garner briefly considers the distant past, before he became such a restless drunk. "Mad Men" recap: Innocence lost 2010-08-02T06:05:00Z

Supposed solutions to loneliness are everywhere: When co-working spaces rent desks to digital nomads, they’re also hawking a sense of belonging. Making friends as an adult is hard. Would you pay $720 for help? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Every book brought with it more questions, and the project got broader: How is loneliness depicted in pop culture? Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

With impressive resilience, the characters juggle ideals, desire, guilt and loneliness in their own ways. Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

It could also teach us more about the touch-averse, including how and when autism and eating disorders develop, and even lead us to a cure for loneliness. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

They grant shape to life’s surpassing strangeness — the knotty stuff of death and loss and loneliness — without sacrificing one whit of imagination. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

And it’s the specter of loneliness, as much as anything, that haunts this movie. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

The film is very quiet in places, conveying a sense of Francisco's loneliness and isolation. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Writing in , critic Michael Billington said the actor "conveys the essential loneliness of the long-distance teacher". Atkinson play wins critics' praise 2013-01-30T11:10:42Z

It makes sense that upon returning to this place of past and present sorrows, my memories are primarily of the loneliness I experienced here. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, he covered a range of documentary subjects for the Sunday Times Magazine from mental health to loneliness. Bowie portrait in Snowdon show 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

How can we talk about our fear and loneliness when so many others are suffering even more? ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Even before the pandemic, I’d been interested in exploring the epidemic of loneliness. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

He is one of nearly 200 respondents, from Falmouth to Jakarta, who replied to a request on the Guardian’s website for readers to share their experience of weekend loneliness. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

How do we alleviate the constant loneliness, difficulties in online dating and finding connections, and more demanding work schedules? Our digital disillusionment with dating: When loneliness is both caused and fed by living online 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

Even those who can manage without support face increased risks of loneliness and depression. ‘Grandfluencers’ Are Sharing a New Vision of Old Age 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

The two books share themes of loneliness, survival, and renewal. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

But, by the end, all sentimental absolutes — beginnings, ends, loneliness — become red herrings. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Where is the possessed, wild-eyed, crackpot female answer to Beethoven, who battled on throught deafness, loneliness, financial worry and disease to create timeless masterpieces? Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z

And the researchers concluded that sleep-related alienation could “trigger the transmission of loneliness” – after viewing clips of sleep-deprived people, otherwise healthy and happy participants then felt lonelier. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The alternative is a life of loneliness and shame. Review: Wrestling With Gay Identity and Parental Wishes in ‘Spa Night’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

There is that kind of that loneliness, and there’s something about hopping on and travelling on it. Ride the rails with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry: “You never hear anybody talking about a lonesome car alarm, do you, playing in a distance” 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Dan is analytical and unsentimental, “a distance man,” as his clandestine supervisor calls him, but also prone to loneliness and, on occasion, to self-destructive acts. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

And most of all, he pities his father’s loneliness, for being sentenced to a lifetime preoccupation with torture and a headful of savage sexual fantasies, predicated on the harming of innocents. Review: In ‘My Father, the Pornographer,’ Chris Offutt Opens Up 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The sense of an “epidemic” now drives popular discussion of loneliness – and that can itself skew possible solutions, according to Fay Bound Alberti, the cultural historian. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

“The Band’s Visit,” a gentle show about longing, loneliness and the Middle East, triumphed over three much better-known productions to win the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night. Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Prevail 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Larkin's words may probe the core of our shared lonelinesses and death dreads, yet, leaving the auditorium, those who knew him agree: "That's exactly how he was – a very funny man." Pretending to Be Me 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

This loneliness is at the heart of growing rates of depression, drug abuse and suicide. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Last year, however, I moved to Vienna, where I knew no one, and the loneliness hit me hard. During the pandemic, I retreated into my shell – could DIY help to pull me out? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

But its themes — isolation, loneliness, love — are likely to hit a little harder now. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

After all, there is a loneliness epidemic and Frazzetto is on a mission to make human beings do intimacy better. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

As the introverted Daniel, Mr. Campbell shades his performance with glints of loneliness and confusion. Review: ‘Indian Summer,’ Toes in the Sand and Chemistry in the Air 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Clare Higgins in “A Delicate Balance,” when she arrives at her friend’s house, her face a kind of horror show of loneliness and panic. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

This is a story about a kind of mandated ambition — Agassi’s father barked at him until he ruled a sport he hated — and professional loneliness. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Not just my doubts about sex – my self-consciousness, my loneliness, my insecurities, my fears. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

It’s an atmosphere of despair — with lyrics about lost chances, lost love and enduring loneliness — that finds grace in the communion of voices. coming together. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Traversing the terrain of teenage loneliness, a condition exacerbated by the acidity of social media, “Dear Evan Hansen” is about finding the inner resources to overcome one’s anxieties and insecurities, and grow. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

While on the surface it’s a sprightly time of celebration and gluttony, it’s also filled with familial resentment, bitter loneliness and an increase in crime. My favourite Christmas film: Home Alone 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Just as hard to deal with, says Crosby, is the loneliness of the long-distance standup. From sketches to standup: the great escape 2011-08-08T20:30:02Z

Certain sections of the media love few things more than an article telling women that they have doomed themselves to loneliness with their 21st-century ways. Hadley Freeman: single women, bag that man now! 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

In this, as in much else, Burns seems a bundle of contradictions: an inveterate storyteller who keeps her private life to herself, a born leader who admits to bouts of loneliness. Nica Burns: queen of Edinburgh comedy 2011-08-26T11:45:01Z

At his lowest point, he was overwhelmed by a profound loneliness and isolation, a sense of being forever cut off and trapped in darkness. Review: ‘Notes on Blindness’ Is John Hull’s Trip From Darkness to Light 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Dorothy was carrying her old emotional baggage: fear of loneliness, an addiction to drink and attempts at suicide. The Literati: Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy Parker’s Arrival in Hollywood 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

I also wanted the narrator to play a silent part in Agnes’s loneliness and guilt, simply by listening to her story. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

With a nod to the loneliness of a solitary time traveller, in this case the dinosaur ripped out of time, we are handed the answer to the question of why The Doctor needs a companion. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

He faces deteriorating health, increasingly frightening lapses of memory, loneliness and the prospect of a bleak, empty future. Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z

One side chronicled all her insecurities: her stuttering, her anxiety, her loneliness. I walked away from my Pentecostal faith to live my own life — and nearly lost myself 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Harris began the project after experiencing loneliness when she moved to London in her early 20s. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The friendly giant is well acquainted with loneliness and grief, conditions whose sources are hinted at in ways that may mercifully elude the understanding of the very youngest viewers. Review: In ‘The BFG,’ a Director and an Actor With Big Shoes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It was a life that condemned many women to half-lives of humiliation, loneliness and abuse. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I would die of loneliness. I need to be with my familiarness,” she says, and abruptly changes the subject. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Plus, a recent study found that phone calls during the pandemic were associated with decreases in stress, loneliness and difficulties maintaining relationships. After a year of covid life, we’ve run out of things to talk about. Try these conversation tips. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

I like to emphasize the space around the characters and the loneliness. Grimur Hakonarson Narrates a Scene From ‘Rams’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And there are still small dramas in my relationship — fears, stress and loneliness that lead to unnecessary fights — but we end them sooner and get over them faster. Sexual adventures in therapy 2013-02-05T01:00:00Z

At times it felt like prime time itself was thumbing its nose at my loneliness in the same way that jilted lovers notice there’s nothing on the radio but love songs. “GLOW” wrestles with the particular pain of friendship divorce 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

Their plan succeeds but Ben is plunged back into loneliness when he is taken back to work at Meadowbank. Pit boy by Gordon Ottewell - review 2013-05-06T08:00:00Z

It curls through loneliness, sets out on crooked highways. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The people of Montmartre are transfigured into eternal symbols of loneliness and longing in these great urban paintings. Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man 2013-02-15T17:25:03Z

All the girls' clashing personalities come to a head when they are left to decide how they are going to survive the brutality of loneliness. Teen girls are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore on screen 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

“Do you know the weight of that? The loneliness?” ‘Dreaming Zenzile’ Review: A Tribute to Mama Africa 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

In this case, “Sad” did not report any mitigating circumstances preventing her sisters from being with her during a difficult time, and I greatly sympathized with her sadness and loneliness. Ask Amy: Husband struggles to navigate tricky family dynamic 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

I understand that all of this stems from my mother’s poor self-esteem and loneliness. My mom’s a chronic debtor 2013-01-22T01:00:00Z

Even with the many devices we possess, an essential loneliness remains. Review | Samanta Schweblin’s ‘Little Eyes’ envisions a world connected — and sometimes torn apart — by tiny, adorable gadgets 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

In their portrait of desire and loneliness on the margins, Jenkins and McCraney use words masterfully and sparely, never giving in to an “inspirational” moment or a flowery turn of phrase. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Both essayists described loneliness and anger, ecstasies of self-recrimination; neither spared much thought for the people they were said to have punched or fondled. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

In the past few years, I’ve begun to see signs that younger generations are finding new ways to support one another and ease loneliness and seclusion. Perspective | I did not have children. Here’s how I guide young people struggling with their own decision. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Meantime, the slave catchers are allowed a certain degree of humanity, or, at least, motivation: poverty, loneliness, the death of a child, while  the enslaved are not all “good.” Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

“Oh the loneliness and the scream,” Scott Hutchison sang, “to prove to everyone that I exist.” Less Underground Vibe at South by Southwest 2010-03-21T23:48:00Z

The decade before the pandemic saw increasing reports of a “loneliness epidemic.” Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

His latest material is a gripping account of the sadness, loneliness and, ultimately, triumph from this period — delivered with just guitar, piano, harmonica and Mr. Oberst’s intense, quivering tenor. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Katkout finds himself sheltering at Fahd’s house and bonding with his friend’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who is a combination of crone and court jester, but whose fables help Katkout cope with his loneliness. Review | In ‘Mama Hissa’s Mice,’ three Kuwaiti boys find solace in fables 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

From global terrorism to loneliness, there is a worry to suit us all. ​'​Sick​ and​ asphyxiating​'​​ – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

I had a very different relationship with loneliness when I was younger. Notes from a Hollywood divorce: 'We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years' 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Life is full of these small blessings, and for all his ginny loneliness and personal despair, Larkin knew enough to celebrate them, on our behalf if not his own. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z

In their bickering, their loneliness, their not-quite-solidarity, they remain entirely winning and occasionally devastating. Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

My joke-writing style is less topical and more autobiographical, so most of my time in New York has been spent writing jokes about crippling loneliness and meaningless sex. 50 Comics Walk Into a Club. No, You Haven’t Heard This One. 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Naomi Arbit, a behavioral scientist who developed much of the Renew curriculum, told me that many heartbroken people used their former partners “to fill their feelings of emptiness or loneliness.” 52 Hours at Breakup Boot Camp 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

There’s a lot of pain in the second section, which she calls Side 2: loneliness, doubt, a bad marriage, cancer, depression. A Memoir by Viv Albertine, Punk Rocker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ben Barnes conveys the essential loneliness of Stephen kept in ignorance of the child he has fathered. Birdsong 2010-09-28T23:36:00Z

An unidentified writer intersperses her own story — including the loneliness and grief that inspired her comical Twitter account — with the tale of her fictional alter-ego, an opinionated 81-year-old literary icon. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

But it intensified in our time: this is the age of loneliness. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

He thinks: “There was a planet that couldn’t figure out where everyone was. It died of loneliness.” In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her loneliness radiates like heat from the pages of this book. With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Beauty, friendship, nature, art: These are the salves to loneliness and despair, and Nunez offers them all in this searching look into life and death. Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Demand may be rising because of the pandemic, which has exposed loneliness as a serious health issue and has prompted many Americans to move for fresh starts. How housing that mixes young and old can improve the lives of both 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Her book about this period, “The Lonely City”, grabs hold hard of the shameful feeling of loneliness. Out of isolation 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

She was the author of a story that captured the essence of childhood: the wonder, the loneliness, the belief in adventure and capacity for awe. Melissa Mathison: a masterful storyteller who brought ET to life 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

It is almost like traveling through every feeling of love: Joy, passion, pain, regret, loneliness. k.d. lang opens her ‘Ingénue Redux Tour’ in Seattle area 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

And in the UK, in a loneliness epidemic, half a million older people go at least five days a week without seeing or touching a soul. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

He was contemplating war, loneliness, journeys and homecomings. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He moves into the treacherous waters of “Novacane,” a song ostensibly about drugs, but more poignantly the numbing ache of loneliness. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z

Other books, like Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” were helpful because they explored themes, like loneliness and alienation, that I was having to learn to cope with myself. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

Armies of environmental health inspectors declared war on the old slums with compulsory purchase orders, their miserable stigmatised occupants bulldozed off to remote soulless estates to die of loneliness and boredom. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z

Like Standefer, she describes the loneliness of being “an interesting case.” This Medical Memoir Reads Like a Detective Story 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

And if we are to combat this loneliness epidemic, we need to view connection as more than some poetic expression. Let's touch: why physical connection between human beings matters 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The generations weaned on smartphones and tablets show increased levels of depression, loneliness and suicidal tendencies. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

His films “What Time Is It There?” and “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” would also be highly regarded for their moody, romantic evocations of urban loneliness. Tsai Ming-liang on youthful 'Rebels of the Neon God,' finally in theaters 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

On the point of loneliness, you write about the power of exploring with a partner personal fantasies that we might worry are disgusting as a way of overcoming our sense of loneliness and isolation. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z

In that delectable book, Paul was having trouble writing the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry, while his mind skittered sideways over multifold topics, notably loneliness. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

The series of solos performed by five dancers, and set to aching Bach sonatas, is a strenuous study in loneliness. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

After a great deal of loss, grief, frustration and loneliness dealt to these characters, their joys arrive as they would in real life: like gifts we can scarcely believe are happening. One Novel. Three Generations. All of Life’s Challenges and Joys. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

“Food has healing powers that exceed the imagination. It will nourish you, fill your stomach but more importantly, it can heal your loneliness.” Eating Alone in China 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

For a teenager, that feeling of being in a “dangerous place” might explain studies that show causal links between loneliness and violence. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a really great slice of people’s lives in New York City: the loneliness of New York, and also the connections. Norah Jones Enjoys a Weekly Christmas, and Sweating to the (Not So) Oldies 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The lyrics throb with loneliness and pain, and – it's one of the song titles – unrequited love. Lykke Li: 'The slightest remark can get me crazy' 2011-03-06T00:09:32Z

Fans of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will remember that, in the midst of his loneliness, the Beast finds a scrap of solace in his friendship with a kindly old teapot. Beastly: from vain to veiny 2011-03-02T12:42:24Z

Still, the depth and vulnerability of Dag’s perspective, his loneliness and the value he places on his few real friendships, kept “Bandwidth” feeling real and urgent. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In part to deal with my own loneliness and anxiety, I started filling my lonely childless days with trying things to see if they’d help me heal. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But what can young people do to combat loneliness? Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

“Ask yourself what emotions are driving the criticism – jealousy, loneliness, a sense of being overlooked? If you can understand what is behind the behaviour, you can acknowledge it in a non-confrontational way, without humiliating them.” 'Allocate a chill-out zone': how to keep the family peace at Christmas 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Somehow, as the Zellners' tell it, a sad story of loneliness and failure becomes emotionally resonant, and one of grace. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter's' path winds through fact, legend, truth 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

As her silver-tongued patter ensures every girl gets her boy, Blake is the magnetic centre of the show, bringing order where there was chaos, love where there was loneliness. Hello, Dolly! – review 2013-07-01T12:54:10Z

It’s Ms. Silverman’s job to deliver the weekly homily about Marc’s holy trinity: comedy, integrity and loneliness. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Maron’ Returns for a Second Season 2014-05-07T21:05:06Z

A collection of interviews in which 13 African-American athletes talk about how "they endured through pain, loneliness and rejection to become champions," according to the publisher. Local books: Korean story translations, paranormal romance and pioneering black athletes 2011-02-08T00:49:06Z

So what does weekend loneliness look like, who experiences it – and what might be done to alleviate it? The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Caroline, a Japanese songwriter whose last name is Lufkin, sings about loneliness and yearning in a high, guileless voice. Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

It didn’t sell well, but was received in many corners for what it is: among the decade’s most pulverizing novels about race and class and loneliness. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

You are the one who changes, confronted with the baroque moral surface of a murderer’s loneliness. Alexander Chee's guilty reading pleasure: Tom Ripley 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Free-throw shooting is a direct function of childhood loneliness,” he says. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

We see women in all kinds of states of loneliness–single, socially isolated, abandoned–but almost never in a state of deliberate, total aloneness. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Age: 5+Oliver Jeffers's seemingly simple illustrations have an unusual ability to catch the intense and sometimes conflicting emotions surrounding friendship and loneliness. Picture book roundup - reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:07Z

Despite the greatness of Thomas Hardy and the lovely goodness of Gertrude Bugler, “Winter” comes to be dominated by the simple, desperate loneliness of Florence. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

I can, often to my own detriment, fill hours, days, sometimes weeks, with actives of complete solitude without a speck of loneliness. New York killed my dating life — and I couldn’t be happier now 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The film is about loneliness and solitude so we drew a lot of inspiration from Edward Hopper paintings for how we would treat light and color, because there is a sense of solitude. "Flee" director on protecting a refugee's identity through animation: "He is always having to hide" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

“A decade later,” she continued, “we realized that connection should be its own product. We are modern medicine for the loneliness epidemic.” SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

"Bodies Bodies Bodies" is about loneliness and how we need to feel connected to each other in healthy ways. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

In it, Ice King cries with loneliness, misreads social cues and is oblivious to several frantic reminders about who he was before he lost his mind. Adventure Time: goodbye to the most inventive cartoon since The Simpsons 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

A wizened gentleman puppet is our host, offering his own meditations on puppet death and beseeching us to relieve his own loneliness and puppet despair. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Strout has an extraordinary gift of emotional precision in showing loneliness, miscommunication and self-doubt in such a stark yet compassionate way. Review | The best new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Along with yearning, there is a palpable sense of loneliness running through “longing two,” most hauntingly captured by Ms. Uchizono, whose face, whenever exposed, is gravely ancient. Dance Review: ?Longing two,? at Baryshnikov and the Kitchen 2010-06-04T22:57:00Z

The primary writers are gay men, and in the course of two seasons the hint of autobiography begins to express itself: an improbable, impregnable loneliness. “Looking,” Marriage, and the New Gay Sadness 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Here, in hushed montages, Jah powerfully conveys Esther’s loneliness in America, while the character’s long-distance calls reveal how she found community in church after losing her home to war. ‘Farewell Amor’ Review: Alone Together 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ferris spins a witty story that chews on Internet scams, relationship killers, crackpot theology, baseball mania and the desperate loneliness of modern life. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

Knowing that the words Mr. Rogers is referring to are Wallace’s it’s hard to avoid recalling what the novelist said about the whole point of books: to combat loneliness. Daniel Fish?s Take on David Foster Wallace 2012-03-17T05:14:54Z

When in despair I’m not so interested in humor, but in watching how loneliness and isolation are overcome. When the Stars Get Down, What Movies Cheer Them Up? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Their loneliness was so palpable it flowed down the lines toward me, as thick and sticky as old motor oil. From propping up the bar to working at the Samaritans – how I learned to listen 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

He's a product of a world in which Grisha are threatened by persecution, while his relationship with and connection to Alina reveals a bone-deep loneliness and desperate yearning for someone to see and understand him. Everyone loves a villain, but in "The Rings of Power," maybe we shouldn’t 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

She wards off loneliness through peculiar obsessions, particularly a fantasy TV series called “Purgatory” and the horse she once owned, which she visits frequently enough to annoy its new owner and stablemen. ‘Horse Girl’ Review: Facing an Emotionally Taxing World 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

You will be rewarded with two quiet and tender romances, “Christmas in New York” and “The Glow-Heart,” that capture the particular loneliness of the heartbroken. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Rather than force his characters into moments of acute discomfort, Mr. Hong lets them amble toward awkwardness, talking in circles and commonplaces until their rage, need, embarrassment and loneliness bubble to the surface. Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Scenes take on a sense of eeriness, of violence, of loneliness. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

The emotions he felt - anger and rage, loneliness and fear - were muted in life but memorably expressed in the violent confrontations that mark his best-known work. 'Conversations with Scorsese' well worth a listen 2011-03-09T12:39:10Z

As a young man, he was not ready to understand the title character’s loneliness, suffering and desire to be pitied. ‘Being Mortal,’ by Atul Gawande 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Despair creeps in as the student’s health declines, his loneliness becomes crippling, and he slowly realizes that the world outside his windows has changed in ways he could not have imagined. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

The rapturous music made me feel powerful, and since it is essentially a solitary song, it enforced my isolation, which had a sweetness to it that loneliness in adult life does not. My Obsession with a Beatles Song 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

With an impressive imaginative sympathy, the show’s creators bring alive the man in all his eccentricity, turbulent emotionalism and abiding loneliness. Theater Review: A Poet on the Skids in ‘Red-Eye to Havre de Grace’ 2014-05-01T02:00:01Z

Here is one: “Nights are long and the pillow cold; who can pity my loneliness?/After experiencing such loneliness and sorrow,/Why not just return home and learn to plow the fields?” Review: ‘The Far Country’ Brings a Neglected History Closer 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

A support robot that reduces loneliness was a covid addition to an expanded health section. The Smithsonian is turning 175. It’s celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The dance is bright with witty detail, yet also shaded with loneliness. Review: Dance Heginbotham Shows Off Its Eccentric Style at the Joyce 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

In his memoir of the 60s drug scene, Keep the Faith Baby, the pastor Kenneth Leech remembered that songs about "loneliness, rejection, brotherhood, inhumanity, were sung around the Soho folk cellars in 1965 and 66". Jon Savage on song: Roy Harper serves up Hors D'Oeuvres 2011-01-26T12:58:35Z

The explosion of friend-making businesses does help just by acknowledging that loneliness is common. Making friends as an adult is hard. Would you pay $720 for help? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

But stardom did nothing to soothe Green’s crippling loneliness or tame the chaos he perpetually seemed to attract. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone

Writing is often assumed to be the loneliest profession, but solitude should not be confused for loneliness: one is a condition we choose, the other is a condition that is forced upon us. Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the Wyeth show, a collection of works with windows in them, is all about loneliness. ‘The Lion King’ always makes me cry

Remaining in the closet leads to lies, loneliness and less honest relationships — as well as higher rates of depression, anxiety and drug and alcohol use. Is Anna Paquin’s bisexuality ‘past tense’ now that she’s married to Stephen Moyer?

As in the novella, the titular character travels from planet to planet, with a stop on Earth, learning lessons about loneliness, loss and selflessness. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The film resonates with the themes of loneliness and isolation which dominated Lost in Translation, for which Coppola was nominated for an Oscar. Rich, famous and depressed: Coppola's second take on celebrity life 2010-09-03T20:31:00Z

For the most part, the Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen writes sensitively of inner turmoil and loneliness, but she intermittently sabotages her own work with a made-for-Netflix plot ricochet or line of cheesy dialogue. What Happens When Girl Power Goes Wrong? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

His last dispatch was from Orcas Island in Washington, where he confronted the loneliness of a solo trip around the world. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

He is, as he puts it himself, “an habitué of loneliness.” ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The point is the profound loneliness these characters feel, and what the technology reveals about their mental states. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, she added, they will even “ask themselves about their own struggles with loneliness.” ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

“Loss, loneliness and physical pain are communicated through faces, breath patterns and collapsing postures,” writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty. Essential Arts & Culture: Ed Moses dies, a woman leads the L.A. Phil, architecture's award controversy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Those questions, Reidenberg said, “can give us an indication of how significant the impact of the covid loneliness and isolation is.” How to talk to loved ones when you’re worried about their mental health 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Shepard shows Korczak in all the private discouragement and desperate loneliness that could make him short-tempered with those who loved him. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

I was shocked by the sheer volume of my loneliness. What it's like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Every Day is for the Thief brims with energy; pulls you into Julius's isolation, compelling you to share his loneliness. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z

Yet amid this portrait of loneliness and loss, Robert and Nathan grow ever closer, working alongside each other at the amusement park. Review | ‘Setting Free the Kites,’ by Alex George 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

But as he was working on it, “it started revealing a quality of loneliness, more so than gravitas.” Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Phair blames success for her loneliness and self-centeredness, but it’s too appealing to give up. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Any show can string together a decent whodunnit, but examining loneliness as a universal mystery is the more captivating concept enriching the three-part harmony wrought by Gomez, Martin and Short's combined performances. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Pittsburgh, what a generator of loneliness and tumult. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

That isolates him or her, of course, which leads to loneliness, which probably started the over-talking in the first place, which then will only get worse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Family gatherings become a game of monopolizing conversation 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The closeness of the community helped steer her past the feelings of alienation and loneliness that often set in early for children with Moebius. For Couple With Moebius Syndrome, Love Is Expressed From the Heart 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Yet though disappointment and loneliness guide its conversations, the movie isn’t bleak; it’s a touching and tender commentary on the need to be seen and the desire to be heard. Review: Seeking Connection in a Busy Town in ‘Autumn, Autumn’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

That mitigates a little bit of that loneliness or that feeling of anxiety that our kids have. Parenting a teen is as intense as a baby, but very different. Why don't we talk about it more? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

The producers underlined the song’s mood of loneliness and longing by shooting Ms. Lucas silhouetted against the Radio City Music Hall audience. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

In one sense, the journalist Billy Baker has undertaken a self-defeating task: to cure his loneliness by writing a book. ‘Loneliness Kills’: A Middle-Aged Dad Seeks Friendship 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

At the same time “Harper Regan” is specifically and resonantly topical, a portrait of a world in which technology and the noise it generates only underscore the loneliness that pervades a crowded planet. Theater Review: Mary McCann in ‘Harper Regan’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z

It catches movingly the grinding loneliness at the heart of American life – of life anywhere. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z

The years since her mother’s death appeared to be a time of tumult and, at times, loneliness for Ms. Brown. Fans Highlight Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Bond With Her Mother 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

I was feeling that loneliness acutely at the time, because I was obsessed with a boy named Matt. Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

I think finding the entry point for any type of loneliness is what's interesting to me. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

The nasty twist in this is that loneliness, like depression, can turn chronic. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“There is a loneliness associated with the modern lifestyle,” Mr. Esmail said. Looking Back on ‘Mr. Robot’ and a Season of Hacker Drama 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Veteran Hong Kong actress Sylvia Chang is going for best leading actress for her performance as a woman struggling with aging and loneliness in "Buddha Mountain." Chinese films contend at Taiwanese awards event 2010-11-20T09:16:00Z

There are many touching scenes of Michi trying to find a connection to ease her loneliness, or Hiromu making peace with his uncle after years apart. "Plan 75": Dystopian film about euthanasia for elders fueled by "anger towards intolerant society" 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

She asks you also to consider the psychological toll of social distancing: loneliness for some, overcrowding for others — and for all, the sudden lack of connectedness when the welcome human touch ceases. Perspective | Miss Manners: Thank-you notes still needed during crisis 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Even on this massive, grand scale, characters suffer from very human failings - jealousy and pride, loneliness and isolation. British stars on Thor 'juggernaut' 2013-10-30T08:09:45Z

Exuberance and sadness coexist in her drawing style, as they coexist in the character of Cass Elliot — whose every moment of joy and perseverance seems to overlay deep loneliness and vulnerability. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Lonely enough that — well, never mind, just deep in loneliness. Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

He suffered through long periods of dark depression, loneliness and self-destructive behavior. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

The film is a contemplation of the loneliness, tension and anxiety of outsiders pursuing a piece of the American dream. Review: Wrestling With Gay Identity and Parental Wishes in ‘Spa Night’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Or sailing alone around the world, battling storms and loneliness. Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

For the latter, she wanted to talk about loneliness and emotional numbness, and “that unexplainable, magical thing where you suddenly feel connected, and how great that is, but also how ephemeral”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Higgins pauses and smiles, as if suspecting that the loneliness of the long-distance tax exile might have a limited audience. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

As more puppets appeared in the windows of an apartment building in the city’s south and addressed the crowd about loneliness and the “bitter pills” of daily life, the spectators murmured in approval. A Last Taste of Summer Theater, as Paris Heads Back to Work 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

For Green, a good part of that loneliness, in Lee’s vision of him, was living in the closet. This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

“We all know anger. We all know loneliness and pain. We all retreat from reality. The difference is in degree.” Mary MacCracken, Who Wrote About Disabilities, Dies at 88 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Arthur is rescued from loneliness by a tiny yet surprisingly frank housemaid, Yolanda. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

With the pandemic adding to loneliness and possibly increasing deaths linked to despair, healthy, well-resourced individuals are positioned to help, regardless of their age. The way these older amateur athletes are staying fit despite the pandemic offers lessons for all ages 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps what for me was a lovely night with my brother pointed to a deeper loneliness on his part. My brother, the alcoholic, who lived and died in hope 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

This loneliness is almost precious; it is certainly made sweeter by infidelity. The China Factory by Mary Costello – review 2012-06-07T07:00:01Z

But in this novel his talents become the linchpin for the family after a crisis, showing the limits and loneliness of a life of the mind. New in Paperback: ‘Real American,’ ‘Touch’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Their difficulty comes by way of their subject matter: Across the album, Sternberg wades through feelings of profound loneliness, self-loathing and gender dysphoria. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

On the surface, it’s a song conflating criticism of the royal family with expressions of abject loneliness and despair. Long live “The Queen Is Dead”: On the genius of this album — and Morrissey’s finest moments as lyrical provocateur — 30 years later 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“When you’re facing questions about mortality, loneliness, your parents’ death, your children, and it’s a really, really complicated time in women’s lives.” Making Room on the Big Screen for a Woman Over 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

What was so inspiring about Britten and Pears was this idea that they could be gay, and it could be a positive thing and not mean loneliness, illness or depravity. Snapshot: The Tenor Nicholas Phan Talks of Britten and Social Media 2013-08-02T19:15:57Z

“What happened was because of the utter loneliness of living 24/7 with someone who could no longer connect,” she says. I had an affair while my husband had dementia 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

By taking away her ability to excel, he also takes away her loneliness. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

As McDormand’s Olive snarls at the neighbors, embarrasses her son and retreats into her own loneliness, the character gradually starts to seem less abrasive and more human. Artful, complex 'Olive Kitteridge' builds on beautiful vignettes 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

It has taught me not all solitude is accompanied by loneliness, and it reminds me of how my neighbor used to read his book contentedly on the terrace. When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, loneliness is the exception rather than the rule in later life. Like hunger or thirst, loneliness in seniors can be eased 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Their music is beautiful to listen to, but – see Wouldn't It Be Nice – the lyrics are often in striking contrast, touching on themes such as loneliness, mortality and the transience of joy. The Beach Boys musical: wouldn't it be awful? 2010-10-04T14:09:00Z

“In the 21st century,” he writes, “loneliness has become an epidemic.” ‘Loneliness Kills’: A Middle-Aged Dad Seeks Friendship 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Rowland deftly maps a very specific kind of urban loneliness, the inner ache of the intelligent, damaged soul who prefers the company of ideas and words to that of people. The office: Three new books offer a glimpse at the contemporary workplace

Ozawa’s Mariko may be 80, but the loneliness that prompts her to leave home is universal. Aging Japan: Manga comics turn gray - but spirited - along with... 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Lisette’s husband leaves to join the army, and she must endure dwindling supplies, limited food and unending loneliness. Review: ‘Lisette’s List,’ by Susan Vreeland

In a pandemic, when loneliness abounds, it might well be harder. Should You Break Up? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Often, in the presence of great natural beauty, we sense our inadequacy to comprehend it and intense loneliness as we strive and fail to dissolve into its vastness. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us

Her Soviet handlers, at Gabriel’s behest, are arranging for her to adopt a cute little orphan girl to assuage her loneliness. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 13: Deus ex Kimmy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Not only does this belie a point he makes elsewhere in the book — that disabled singles with financial means clearly have an advantage — he contradicts his own theory that parents with bad attitudes cause loneliness. Review | The perils and pleasures of inter-abled romance 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

“An Unnecessary Woman” is a meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z

You identified loneliness as a common theme among your subjects. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

But films like "Horse Girl" are different; the kind of loneliness shown is less a hunger for romance that needs to be satiated. Why "Horse Girl" and other films are turning their lenses on the loneliness of women 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

But not until Mr. Page took his enquiring eye to this text did I properly clock the undertow of loneliness coursing through the three-and-a-half years traversed by this play. Review: Coward, Coward Everywhere, From Cabaret to West End and On 2010-10-05T13:42:00Z

Whether focusing on injustice or universal loneliness, here, one makes a political point. Antjie Krog: Should Should power listen to poetry?| World Writers Conference 2012-09-26T09:47:23Z

Jenny and Johnny argue that touring together is preferable to the loneliness experienced by single musicians. Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z

Where Jennifer Aniston's single status is constantly picked over, Gaga has carved out a space where she can stand alone, and that loneliness actually heightens, rather than diminishes, her power. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

There was a loneliness and a sadness and a sweetness to these characters. ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Johnny Galecki of 'The Big Bang Theory' 2011-09-15T17:15:07Z

Each show will explore emotions triggered by leaving home and will offer coping skills for anger, frustration, nervousness and loneliness. ‘Sesame Street’ aims to help kids deal with trauma of Syrian civil war 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a time of intense loneliness in the Western world. Hair Salons Reopen, and Americans Rush Back 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Six months into widowhood, though, loneliness crept in. Bound by Their Boston Neighborhood 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

We’re told that unless we marry young and try not to be picky about our partners, we will face certain lifelong loneliness. This discovery about female sexuality will make conservatives’ heads explode 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The story is set at Princeton, where Amber and Tom describe being so saturated in booze and overwhelmed by assignments and loneliness that the tacitly accepted bacchanalian pressure-cooker atmosphere is inevitably part of the tragedy. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, what they want to talk to her about is loneliness, this sense of not knowing what to do to connect with others. Skinemax meets "Twin Peaks"? Our wild interview on "Now Apocalypse," a totally bonkers show 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In the songs chosen this week, the pub is a place in which one finds both freedom and captivity, solidarity and loneliness, oblivion and remembrance. Readers recommend songs about pubs and bars: the results 2010-05-20T22:15:00Z

The word loneliness is a good description of the feeling, but not its cause, which in reality has little to do with being alone. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s a place where people understand loneliness better than here,” observes Maud, whose faraway look conveys an ineffable sadness. Movie Review: ‘The Awakening,’ With Rebecca Hall and Dominic West 2012-08-17T15:17:32Z

The memoir gets dark, covering loss, grief and loneliness. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

They become questioning, forbidding, to the extent that Liz wonders if she has “absorbed” her loneliness from her environment, now full of couples, families, groups. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

The story is about big topics such as probability, mortality and loneliness, but it’s also a lot of fun. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Seeing Khorsandi on the Pleasance stage, facing an expectant audience, one can't help being struck by the loneliness of the solo performer. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z

What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness? David Chase reflects on the 'Sopranos' ending 2012-12-17T21:02:35Z

These new episodes lack the first batch’s director, Sam Esmail, but it remains a visually stylish and character-driven drama, using conspiratorial paranoia as the backdrop to a study of loneliness and belonging. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in May 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Kid Koala’s pearly electric piano chords are the T4 robot’s day-to-day loneliness. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sugar likened her work on “Adventure Time” to making independent films, with the commercial structure of a television series acting as a Trojan Horse for material about loneliness, anxiety and occasionally bacon pancakes. How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

But, I've always said I think it's about American loneliness, and ennui, and what it means to be in so much pain that you have to cut off half of your consciousness. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Another installation, set in the penitentiary dining hall, allows visitors to send postcards to many of the prisoners in “Trace,” a gesture inspired by Mr. Ai’s memory of his own acute loneliness when detained. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

She moves from fear to bravery, selfishness to generosity, loneliness to companionship. Imagination Stage’s ‘Night Fairy’ enchants at times, but it could use a bit more magic

Happily, it’s a fault Mr. McPherson corrected in his lovely Broadway-bound musical, “Girl from the North Country,” which, unlike “Dublin Carol,” draws a dark form of illumination and beauty out of loneliness and despair. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

I know from experience that the only thing you can do to beat this type of loneliness is to be hopeful and keep reaching out, keep making an effort. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Manley's twist on solving modern-day loneliness is amusing, until it gets creepy. Review: Robots we hate in 'Connecting Circuits' 2013-01-16T03:21:12Z

Both writers talk about loneliness; they struggled with depression and alcoholism and self-destruction, arguably at the hands of Dr. Feelgood. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Herzog turns it into a much grander meditation on loneliness and man’s relationship with nature. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

These antics often seemed like a way of staving off the boredom and loneliness of his travels. The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer, a Prolific Poet and Environmental Activist for the Social-Media Age 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

She gives back-to-back shoutouts to her loneliness on “Desperado” and the menacing “Woo.” Rihanna’s 'Anti' Rewrites the Rules of Her Career 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Increased loneliness and isolation are two heartbreaking consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, inspiring one network of care homes in North Carolina to proactively promote a pen pal program for residents. Nursing home 'overwhelmed' by positive response to pen pal program amid pandemic 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Drawn together at the nightclub, these three fast friends may look “delicate and breakable,” but their bond, forged by desperate need and loneliness, becomes seemingly indestructible. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s

None can really help: His neighbor, an amiable, emotionally stunted man who befriends cockroaches to stave off loneliness, is now next for lethal injection and wants help on drafting his final words. A play about death row wrestles with meaning 2011-02-11T00:30:32Z

But is Liz really projecting her loneliness on to others, and imagining the way they see her – or does society read people who are alone in too predictable a manner? The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Ullmann is very good at evoking the peculiar, charged stasis of a household in which mentally active and intellectually vital people are resolutely failing to communicate with each other—the loneliness of communality, in short. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Jealousy, bigotry, pride, lust, envy, gossip and several other common frailties beset the settlement; above all, loneliness, made worse by the constant presence of others who relentlessly watch and judge. Between Friends by Amos Oz – review 2013-05-08T14:24:36Z

In fact, I would argue that the loneliness and skull-bound nature of a long-distance hike fits quite nicely with the thinking out, if not the actual writing, of books. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

In his previous novels he said that he had tended to wield “irony and sarcasm and to look away like most people from loss and loneliness and death.” In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

You felt he was attracted to loneliness as a theme for the same reasons that Ishmael, in “Moby-Dick,” liked to join funeral processions. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

And then there was the idea that removing everything good and happy in your life and replacing it with pain and loneliness was a step in the right direction. 5 insane ways female sexual desire was once suppressed 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The film looks delicately faded, like an old photograph; the school, a sprawling stone structure in the middle of nowhere, looks like a place, in the matron's words, where people understand loneliness. 'The Awakening' offers pleasures of an old-fashioned thriller 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z

This novel’s cast grows epic, but McCracken is always most impressive when she works small, when she is describing movie kisses or corsets or simply loneliness and longing. Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Yet those vast landscapes are empty without Ian, and Karen is experiencing intolerable loneliness; when he finally gets out, Ian must come to terms with a situation his choices have helped to create. Everyday – review 2013-01-17T21:40:01Z

Solitude and loneliness are natural, too, we learn. How Gyo Fujikawa Found Freedom by Making Children’s Books 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

An  Australian study found that Facebook users experienced significantly high levels of “family loneliness.” 7 telltale signs social media is killing your self-esteem 2014-03-11T12:50:00Z

“Huxley got me through a bad relationship, its end and the ensuing loneliness. I canceled plans to see my family across the country. He got me through tough times at work,” she said. In a pandemic, these pups have made all the difference

At that time, I was really dealing with loneliness. Festival Devotees Migrate East 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

But to Mr. Hiddleston, Pinter’s drama contains two themes just as significant as betrayal: isolation and loneliness. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Is it too soon for me to worry about doing something about the extreme loneliness that I'm experiencing? Perspective | Ask Amy: Parent wonders when to let young son roam 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

It is as if combating her loneliness is more restorative than reuniting with her family. Allison Janney opens up: On being “fragile but tough on the outside” and the questionable things she’s done for love 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Q: There's a lot of graphic sex in "Shame," which will surely get the media, but it seems more about loneliness. A Minute With: Michael Fassbender on sex and "Shame" 2011-11-30T10:09:57Z

In the interim Nova, speaking through his characters, weighs in with thoughts on power, fate, need and loneliness. 'The Informer': Author Craig Nova takes a turn through pre-World War II Berlin 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z

They are always written with incredible empathy, each word balm for the stark, stinging loneliness that the experience of motherhood can inspire – the state of being always and never alone. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

"I know all about loneliness," Paul fires back. Reel history 2010-04-08T08:00:00Z

Mitski’s voice is precise yet distraught as she sings about overpowering loneliness in “Nobody.” The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

A newspaper article fired Don Nguyen’s imagination: A group of women in Vietnam, shunned by their society, gathered together to stave off fear and loneliness with laughter. Review: ‘Red Flamboyant’ Is Earthbound and Flush With Romanticism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Olga is centered and teeming with pride, but just as vulnerable as Robert in her loneliness. Minimalist drama "Here and There" right on target 2010-05-15T01:32:00Z

My self-consciousness, my loneliness, my insecurities, my fears.’ My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Food is his constant in a poor childhood, and when he’s older, and sometimes spending days alone, it’s a bulwark against loneliness. No to Pseudoscientific Diets! Yes to Less Stress About Food! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

They are filled with loss, loneliness and heartache. Perspective | We love good music, but are we exposing our 8-year-old to adult themes too soon? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Both her family and his spoke poignantly of their grief, confusion and loneliness in the aftermath. Royal Swedish Ballet offers an innovative ‘Juliet and Romeo’: One for today 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Until recently, she was recruiting for a study on how minorities experience loneliness. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Power of prayer: Wings of Desire, the meditation on mankind’s loneliness, despair, hope, joy and transcendence. Mayan Apocalypse Film Festival – 21 Films for Our Final 21 Days 2012-11-30T17:20:31Z

“No matter how intellectually dumb we think Valentine’s Day is, it never offends anyone to be thought of, especially during a loneliness pandemic.” Is Valentine’s Day Canceled? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

They're the same age, they share so much -- divorce, grief, difficult children, and deep loneliness and unhappiness. "In Treatment" finale recap: Frances makes amends 2010-12-07T13:15:00Z

Their relationship isn’t cold — it’s downright blazing at the start, but Westmead’s stranglehold on his desire leaves Poppy hurt and baffled, and their marriage settles into loneliness and longing. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

I just knew that I had this obsession about cooking for one and loneliness because I was a very lonely 20-something year old. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

When I returned, 10 months later, I was riddled with anger, self-hatred and loneliness. Motherlode Blog: Talking With My Daughter About My Service in Iraq 2013-05-05T12:56:02Z

Next would come the wheelchair, and, as my legs gave out completely, there would stretch ahead of me the long loneliness of life in bed. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

It's loneliness, not gender, that lies at the heart of Winter's novel – a confident, serious debut that, like the Labrador sun, never quite warms you through. Annabel by Kathleen Winter ? review 2011-04-12T16:15:00Z

His charm was so great you only slowly realize how much loneliness and anger and depression swam behind his verse. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

I hoped that being with her would quell my loneliness, which had grown like an invasive species in the months I’d been there. The year I was venomous 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

This notion gets greeted with surprise – loneliness, a good thing? – but the surprising thing is that we ever imagined otherwise. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

For that loneliness, we pay a heavy price. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z

It’s because he senses and conveys the darker currents of pain and loneliness that swirl beneath even the shiniest surfaces. | 'Sondheim on Sondheim': Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams at Studio 54 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z

Garcia plays a divorcee at the end of her 50s trying to stave off loneliness, rushing into singles' parties but struggling to overcome disappointment. Romanian movie `Child's Pose' wins at Berlin fest 2013-02-17T00:01:04Z

Loneliness affects close to half of all men over 50, the report found, with the highest degree of loneliness reported by 8%. Number of severely lonely men over 50 set to rise to 1m in 15 years 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

To soothe some of that loneliness away, I made a plan to call my family while they were gathered at my grandparents’ home. A Chicken Dish That Makes It Feel Like Christmas 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Stalked by the loneliness of middle age, you may think the last thing you need is a novel about a woman driven to wearing her dog. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Honigmann is good on loneliness, whether showing desolate cityscapes as they float by or watching the musicians during their stay in Buenos Aires. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

There were years of loneliness, body-shaming and racism — Gay includes an anecdote from when she opened her acceptance letter to Yale within eyeshot of a white male peer: “He looked at me with plain disgust. ‘ Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' is ferociously honest 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Most of all, there is a relatable loneliness that lives in the expressions on each one of their anonymous faces, and in the vast emptiness of the vacant stadium bleachers. The Loneliness of the Common Player 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Even when it was the beautiful guy appreciating her, I still felt her loneliness. Laura Dern Won't Let Her Kids See 'Wild at Heart' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

The result is a tender, laconic look at a woman who rarely faces anything in life, including loneliness, without a strategy. ‘A Love Song’ Review: When Moving Forward Means Looking Back 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

In their self-titled debut album, The xx wooed audiences with a desperately delicate sound that made loneliness an art form. The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist 2012-09-05T16:00:49Z

So close your eyes For that’s a lovely way to be Aware of things your heart alone was meant to see The fundamental loneliness goes whenever two can dream a dream together. Our last Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z

Through songs full of uncertain relationships, questions and loneliness as well as affection and self-confidence, Ms. La Havas was all smiles onstage. Review: Lianne La Havas Sings of Love and Identity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

To wit, you at least got the impression Michael Scott had a soul, albeit one that was smothered under desperation and loneliness. The fall of Ricky Gervais: How did the once-brilliant star of “The Office” end up here? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

We know what it is to be overcome by loneliness or desperation, to be suffused with heartache or lust. Review: ‘The Astronaut Love Show,’ Tales of Not So Magnificent Obsession 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Autumn in Albuquerque was almost imperceptible—no glorious colors, just a new severity, a dead leaf or two blowing around, a hint of loneliness. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Darkness on the Edge of Town” explores how dread can invade the soul, and how faith still might survive, when that search ends in loneliness, disappointment and heartbreak. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Tom Hanks has described the loneliness of his “vagabond” childhood on the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs. Tom Hanks speaks of lonely childhood in emotional Desert Island Discs 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Along the way, the characters progress through need, loneliness, repression, degradation, selfishness and damage to themselves and others. Where's 'The Pride' in love? The way we've pursued it then and now 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But one of the longer sections is devoted to life on the road, with its terrible food, miserable lodgings, deadly boredom, loneliness and hostile audiences. Review: ‘Dying Laughing,’ About Bombing Onstage, or, Conversely, Killing 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

She was alone in a new apartment in a new city, unemployed and quite literally on an island; depression and loneliness quickly set in. You probably didn’t expect to move back in with your parents. Here’s how to make the best of it. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Significant Other,” a poignant comedy exploring the contours of contemporary loneliness, is closing April 23. ‘Significant Other’ to End Its Run on Broadway 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

And it’s loneliness that drives Julian to cling to Ida, a painter and the first Black woman he’s dated. Bearing ‘The Weight’ of Feeling Alone 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

“I’d say that loneliness is caused by parents who don’t take an interest in their kids. It has to go beyond: ‘How was your day?’ Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s one of those lyrics that has the capability of touching anyone who’s been through changes, loneliness, trying to find a secure place in the world,” he said. The Enduring Power of Otis Redding’s ‘Dock of the Bay’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

There simply isn’t a perfect way to cope with the existential angst, the misery, the loneliness and the all-consuming sadness induced by loss. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The incredible loneliness was the most painful part of that life. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. | 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': ?Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? With Tom Hanks - Review 2011-12-22T19:40:23Z

Multiple studies and numerous articles warn that the planet is in the throes of a loneliness pandemic. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

But it’s also about how the loneliness of heartbreak can be amplified by being in a foreign land – something Stillman knows well. Whit Stillman: ‘I find it remarkable that people hate my work’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Isaacs installed his camera at various points to record its many travellers: marching Muslims, Buddhist monks seeking nirvana in Colindale, an alcoholic ex-navvy, whose loneliness is horribly compelling and rarely observed this honestly. The Road: A Story of Life and Death – review 2013-02-21T22:30:01Z

Yet there is an overarching theme of loneliness and sacrifice, and an indirect look at the changing roles of women during dynamic times. Theater Review: ‘Tea for Three,’ With Elaine Bromka, at Urban Stages 2013-06-05T20:16:00Z

It's a disease of this extremely stark reverberating loneliness, whose solution to that is to isolate. Anne Lamott on coping with "existential exhaustion," from the healing power of Target to forgiveness 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Gaisford said he’s since received messages from around the world, and believes his video struck a chord because loneliness is something that is experienced globally. Man's video admitting 'I have no friends' resonates online 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is difficult to argue against the idea that unhealthy isolation and loneliness can be inherent to priestly life, indeed any clerical life. A Protestant liberal defends clerical celibacy 2013-03-10T12:00:00Z

When we're feeling confident those characters have an outsize appeal, but dark moods can transform such figures into arguments for withdrawal, giving loneliness the illusion of strength. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Yet a mood of aching loneliness and suspenseful mystery tilts it toward Surrealism. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

It’s very comfortable around its characters’ loneliness, the slow despair of “the devil you know” choices and the alienation of midcentury houses that are so well maintained they’re more mausoleum than home. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Olivia Laing is known for meandering, critical yet personal nonfiction, drawing upon the lives and work of others to explore a central question, from loneliness to addiction. Olivia Laing’s Latest Subject Is Bodily Integrity 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

And as isolation has engulfed the globe like the virus itself, the business of loneliness is booming. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

The skeptical view of love, often tenderly at odds with sentiments of romantic yearning, loneliness and regret, gives “Marry Me a Little” a more convincing semblance of narrative than its origins might indicate. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z

Must poor Less — dismissed by his own editor as “too wistful” — settle for a life of convivial loneliness? Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Here, sadness is possible, even loneliness, but the bumper guards are up: No one risks slipping into despair or, for that matter, tasting anything like elation. Review | Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ is light on drama. Not that we could handle more drama now anyway. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

The thought of being the final one — the endling — fills her with desperate loneliness, and she hopes a few of these animals may still exist on a legendary island. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Endling: The Last’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

It is an almost religious film, in its way, a parable for the martyred loneliness of the marginalised and the dispossessed. 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

She soon began to feel the heavy weight of postpartum depression, loneliness and all the chores that continued to pile up. How to make dinner while drowning 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

I equated my own crushing loneliness, my dependency on my husband and phone calls with my mother — or any adult who listened kindly, for that matter — to be weakness. We’re not meant to do this alone: American individualism is destroying our families 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s not sadness but loneliness in her voice as she sings, “Mama needs a margarita/A slow song and two strong arms to lead her.” Zoe Muth has left Seattle, but not great music | New recordings 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Does this reflect his strength and ability to leave, his power not to be controlled by fear of loneliness? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She was (hypothetically) stepping out so he (hypothetically) walked out 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Historically, sex dolls have been associated with loneliness. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Several people pointed out that solitude for them is more a tool than simply a comfortable loneliness. What We Can Learn From Solitude 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

Then there's "Single for the Summer," a would-be party song that ends up a sort of meditation on loneliness. Sam Hunt plays down-home diplomat of edgy country music 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

She looks loose and comfortable most of the time, letting Jesse’s anxiety and loneliness float in around the edges of her brazen self-presentation. Movie Review | 'Toe to Toe': On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

Their subjects undergo group psychotherapy, with a focus on discussing loneliness and participating in social activities. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

After “years of loneliness, depression, and boredom,” Gaspar gets an idea. Screening Room: A Short Film of Dreamy Imagery and Mysterious Language 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The quiet shouldn’t be confused with loneliness, which is a mental state. What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

But even in a more bucolic setting, it turns out everyone has the same quiet loneliness and sense of unwanted detachment, and they, too, treat it by getting stoned. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“On any person who desires such queer prizes,” E. B. White wrote in his classic essay “Here Is New York,” in 1949, “New York will bestow the gift of loneliness.” The Faces Behind Craigslist’s Strictly Platonic Personal Ads 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

“We celebrate the renewal. We fail to mourn the rupture. This failure speaks to the great loneliness of American life.” Ayad Akhtar, author of Pulitzer-winning 'Disgraced,' ponders race, identity and the cruelties of capitalism 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

More satisfying are the moments when Petri fuses her sly “Hamlet” allusions to a portrait of loneliness, companionship and power dynamics in the Internet age. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

And since these stories become, first and foremost, tools to keep loneliness at bay, some gasp-inducing moments can regrettably lose their punch here. Theater Review: ‘The Weir’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2013-05-27T21:24:29Z

And, for essays I’ve written in the last few months, I’ve got stacks of books on pandemics and loneliness and policing and race relations commissions and Kent State and the history of democracy. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The pool is home to a synchronized swimming team, made up of middle-aged men who swim together to combat life’s loneliness. ‘Swimming With Men’ Review: An Amiable Look at Aging Bodies 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

But I think the deal is that you are fully lonely, and the sooner we accept and embrace our loneliness, the healthier we are. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

As it proceeds from one careful, watchful, slow shot to the next, a sad and affecting story emerges, about a father’s loneliness and a daughter’s devotion. | 'Somewhere': The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside 2010-12-21T23:13:01Z

“The worst is the absolute loneliness,” he concludes. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z

Isis, by contrast, has spent all this time stalking vermin and lying round in drafty hallways and wagging her tail on cue – not to mention absorbing and filtering the human toxins of longing, loneliness, rage. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Prayers for Isis 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Like Maisie, Fine’s story is a barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness and hereditary inheritances. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

She wrote “The Forty-Year-Old Version” to assuage her loneliness, her feelings of rejection and loss. A Writer-Director-Star Breaks Through. It Only Took a Lifetime. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

You realize they are communicating the distance between Don and his new wife, and also the loneliness he feels at that moment and always probably will because he’s Don. Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

And the sentiment — loneliness searching desperately for loyal companionship — is eternal. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was fond and goofy, the real-life counterweight to all the loneliness and yearning of Mr. Finn’s songs. Music Review: Neil Finn Plays a Career-Spanning Set at Town Hall 2014-04-09T21:28:16Z

The doctor said there's been a rise of other forms of emotional distress as well, such as loneliness and an ongoing sense of isolation. How to cope with COVID-19 anxiety two years after monumental lockdown 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

I tempered my loneliness with joints, and to avoid becoming a complete loner, acquired friends from a neighboring town. Orange wasn’t my new black 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

There’s a kind of loneliness to the beginning of summer, maybe because we know it’s going to end. Mad Men Watch: Loving You Is the Worst Way to Get to You 2013-05-27T14:34:11Z

And yet it is his climactic monologue — an uproar of grief, loneliness and heartbreak late in the opera — that is the work’s emotional core. In ‘Don Carlo’ Productions, Singers Tease Out a King’s Humanity 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

The loneliness, anxiety and discomfort that often comes with being the only Black person in a predominantly white space can turn any office into a mental and emotional minefield. In ‘The Other Black Girl,’ the Call Is Coming From Inside the Cubicle 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z

So used to scrubbing my back and ironing my clothes, Dixon was also shattered to be torn from service to me and died of loneliness a few months later. Digested classic: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon 2010-05-07T09:12:00Z

He brought a special poignancy to the Noël Coward standard “If Love Were All,” a lament about the loneliness of celebrity. Review: Michael Feinstein’s Holiday Ode to Judy Garland 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Setting your most freakish thought bubbles to melody takes a lot more courage than singing about heartache, loneliness or the plight of the American autoworker. Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The nature of loneliness, and stealing from vending machines, are both addressed in Curtis Taylor's work at New City Theater. Arts and entertainment top picks for Oct. 16-22 2011-10-12T22:04:04Z

She drops bits of weary wisdom, letting us in on her loneliness. An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Although I cherished and reread his words, loneliness and insecurity crept in. Pushed Together for 48 Days, Then Pulled Apart for 49 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a meditation on death, loneliness, death wish, memory and perseverance, drifting through clouds of guitars and static, voices and reverberation, processionals and elegies. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

In the end it may not have been shame but loneliness that killed him. The Universal Machine – review 2013-04-29T17:44:46Z

In a way, the book is just an allegory about the loneliness of business travel. “A folk tale, but with swearing”: Drew Magary on his debut novel “The Hike” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Other songs grapple with loneliness, estrangement and regret. John Prine Returns to Songwriting, Jaunty and Dark, on ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

He had a gift for articulating profound loneliness in ways that that felt deeply familiar, which in turn made you feel less alone. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

At 76 years old, David is among those most vulnerable to loneliness and its associated mental health consequences. The extreme loneliness of lockdown: 'Even though my partner is here, I’m struggling to cope' 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Sticks' devised piece, The Hoarder, is inspired by a true story and investigates materialism and loneliness. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-26T13:42:00Z

And if you’re in a marriage and you want to talk about it, use the book to talk about it, because that’s where I see the loneliness. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

There’s something galvanizing about this woman, but also something agonizing about both her loneliness and the bloody, bruised fists that she keeps throwing — again and again and again. ‘A Vigilante’ Review: Vengeance Is Hers 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The feeling was of intense loneliness — being 12, her father dead. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z

Eventually the movie turns into a kind of gay Cinderella story, with a lithe young prince plucking the depressed, chubby protagonist from the well of loneliness. Movie Review: ‘Yossi,’ by Eytan Fox, Depicts a Gay Doctor in Israel 2013-01-25T00:59:22Z

These girls are focused with full-beam intensity on one another and the feelings of profound attachment and loneliness that emerge from being part of a team. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

They are moral above all else, suppressing desires, sacrificing pleasures and often enduring years of loneliness. The lives of moral saints 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Woollen, who was not a Facebook user, had been kicking around ideas about connectivity and loneliness. How the Cover Song Conquered Movie Trailers 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Most universities offer students such counselling and many run group sessions that specifically address loneliness. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Before this outburst, the camera follows Ronah around the streets of Manhattan, whose architecture reflects her loneliness. Review: In ‘She’s Lost Control,’ Crossing Boundaries in Pursuit of Intimacy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Countless months of tears, loneliness, late nights pondering why she didn’t just talk to me about the problems we had, really put into question whether I was just obsessed with the idea of this girl. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

That combination carries a poignant undertone of loneliness: as a boy who danced, as a hyper-focused professional with little interest in anyone outside the rehearsal studio and as a guest star around the world. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

A fixed belief that you aren’t worth liking creates a loneliness and craving for attention that they struggle to satisfy. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s a downbeat story all the way, enhanced by the harshness of Maine’s seasons and the encroaching loneliness of old age. In HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ the power of negative thinking

All they have to do is win over millions of people in online “showrooms,” many of whom are willing to give up their savings for a chance to quell loneliness and prop up a star. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Enemy Within’ and ‘London Kills’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Jordan and Caple explore that question through a series of loose, mood-driven passages that highlight Adonis’s loneliness and uncertainty as well as his discipline and decency. ‘Creed II’ Review: A Poignant Boxing Movie Blends Old and New 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“It took me a while to get vulnerable with people from the other school,” she said, adding that asking one another questions about family and loneliness broke down those walls. An innovative Georgetown lab looks to theater to quell political fires 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

It suggests a fundamental loneliness and lack of certainty. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z

He caught the simplicity and loneliness of his vocation in this great painting.• Richard Hamilton's farewell, Frieze and Cotman paints France – the week in art 2012-10-05T13:37:48Z

But Bell underscores the loneliness and pain she often felt. The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

The costs also include, at times, a magnification of your loneliness. Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

But George’s loneliness and pain are not only a consequence of his loss. What’s on TV Monday: The ‘Catherine the Great’ Finale and ‘A Single Man’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

I had experienced varying degrees of loneliness since my guy and I split up. My year on Match.com 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z

The kind of loneliness portrayed here seems different from that in an age of social networking. | 'Jet Lag': Going Places in a Media-Saturated World 2010-09-30T04:30:00Z

Song after song testifies to pain, loneliness and a longing for refuge. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z

Gerry’s dismissive zingers — sharpened by his own anxiety and loneliness — are consistently hilarious. Review | Too much monotone in ‘Bright Colors’ at Studio Theatre 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

There’s a forlornness to some of these clowns, and a loneliness. Review: ‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers Flurries of Joy 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the underlying theme is strategies against loneliness and its doppelgänger, solitude. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane on Running Away to Sea 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

His works deal with disillusionment, loneliness and unseen agony in a sometimes scathing manner. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z

Zaraska contends, though, that one of the most damaging forms of unhappiness is loneliness. Optimism, friendship and tidy socks – the secret to living to 100 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

The song denounces women undervaluing themselves due to loneliness; SZA’s apologies for her “flaws” are actually statements of liberation. Review | SZA turns self-doubt into sublime sounds at Fillmore 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Even their halting conversation feels somehow intimate, as if that connection, more than the sex, will shore them up a little for whatever loneliness lies ahead. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 2: The Prison I Live in Now 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The problem is now obvious enough for the government to appoint a so-called “minister of loneliness”, Tracey Crouch. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

In yet another, he and an acquaintance confess to occasional bouts of loneliness. | 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors': Review: ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors’ 2012-07-15T21:14:48Z

What lends a special, tickling poignancy to Mr. Hansard and Ms. Irglova’s songs is their acceptance of loneliness as an existential given. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

“Beyond loneliness, it was two kindred spirits,” he said. Steve Carell Plays a du Pont in the Drama ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Excessive loneliness pushes up your odds of an early death by 45 percent.” America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z

“The idea of loneliness and calling out; the human existential crisis of reaching out and never being heard.” Adrian Grenier Says His Quest for the Lonely Whale is 'a Lot Like Moby Dick' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

I, at least, don’t recall loneliness being such a predominant condition for Swift’s peers as it is, here, for her. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Looking back over half a century, she realizes that the intertwined conditions of her life were set early: “my competence, my loneliness.” Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Evans drew, in part, on her own childhood for Stuart's loneliness and ennui at the start of the book. Lissa Evans's small change from TV to books 2011-07-08T15:50:08Z

“It’s about Dracula having intense loneliness and a desire to rejoin humanity,” she said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

While there is the thankfulness for having lasted so long, at the same time, there is a loneliness and sense of having been forgotten as others have come and gone. Tom Waits Goes Back to the Well on Bad As Me 2011-10-25T09:00:51Z

Winesburg's freight of loneliness is so great that it seems more symbolist than realist. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

Like some monster or Egyptian mummy, we see him stifling with loneliness. Somewhere 2010-09-03T14:54:00Z

They are tales of lust, loneliness, infidelity, subsistence living and the delights of “Sex With Your Ex.” Justin Vernon Joins Swamp Dogg and Big Red Machine to Wrestle With Love and Death 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Crawl” keeps the head-shakers at a minimum with the legitimate hook setting the table for a hypothetical thematic feast, loneliness advertised as one of, if not the, main dish. New Childish Gambino Album’s Fatal Flaw: It’s Just Not Cool 2013-12-10T10:45:16Z

In his book, the usually ebullient Schwarzenegger admits to some loneliness, even though he packed his schedule with speeches, projects and movie-making after Shriver and the children moved out of the house. Schwarzenegger: Shriver changed tune on recall run 2012-09-29T20:16:11Z

What led up to this feeling of loneliness?” I signed up for a suicide hotline: What I got sounded more like phone sex 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

But he wasn’t sure how to make McIntyre’s existential loneliness feel palpable to theatregoers. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Look, for starters, at the sense of physical loneliness and intimacy — on a cosmic scale, no less — that define Marianne Elliott’s production of “Angels in America.” Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

It’s the loneliness part that creates the most conventionally dynamic scenes. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Today, the “i am lonely” thread is a decade-long anthem to the phenomenon of loneliness in the Internet age. “I am lonely, will anyone speak to me”: Inside the saddest thread on the internet, ten years later 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

If we contemplate death before we actually face it, she proposes, we can perhaps mitigate its tragedies: “pain, denial, prolongation, loneliness.” ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Internet has changed what he writes, he added, because his themes such as gay loneliness, solitude and tragedy have been replaced by gay solidarity and enjoyment. Author Toibin sees novel surviving new technology 2010-04-20T22:32:00Z

They are full of wisdom and joy and deep loneliness and gratitude. Perspective | Mary Oliver did something rare: She made poetry accessible. That’s not a bad thing. 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

“What exacerbates the loneliness is that I’m a very sociable person,” she says. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

That's why his answer to your admission of loneliness will be so important. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Spouse of a nocturnal husband struggles with leading parallel lives 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

As I get older, I wonder what will become of us and how I will deal with the loneliness as our children move away. Ask Amy: Long-term marriage is lonely, lacks spark

“Perhaps today’s readers will find some other manifestations of sadness and loneliness in the city today.” Read Your Way Through Lisbon 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

They’re also about loneliness, and the endless existential comedy of what the English call simply “carrying on.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It's one of the hardships of new motherhood, of loneliness, of the limits of loyalty, of quitting the family business. Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

That soul refers to the loneliness of the street’s position in the city. Cuba’s forgotten champ 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z

“What’s bracing about this film, which Lana Wilson directed, is the way it weds Swift’s loneliness and her arrival at empowerment,” Wesley Morris wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Briarpatch’ and ‘Tommy’ 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The enormity of his plight, the existential dread, will flow from the vast loneliness of the landscape, they agreed. ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Could it be the crushing loneliness of his privileged yet empty life? 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

But there’s a reason the pang of loneliness hurts so much. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Sometimes this leads to anxiety, loneliness and depression–for both parents and children. How to Parent Like a Diplomat 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Gary chose Arden Courts in Silver Spring, Md. “To watch the slow deterioration of my wife, the loneliness and the isolation” — those are the biggest problems, Gary told me. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Generally, the shadow puppets and silly dances are at odds with the themes of abandonment and loneliness. | 'The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy': An Orphan?s Adventures, Ripe for the Telling 2011-05-02T21:32:52Z

But it’s feelings that make us human, and I’ve learned to lean into loneliness when it comes. Midway Through His Year, Our 52 Places Traveler Answers Readers’ Questions 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

By the time he cut "I'm a Fool to Want You," Sinatra knew heartbreak, sadness and loneliness, and all are on that magnificent recording, along with a scent of Ava Gardner's perfume. 'Frank: The Voice': James Kaplan chronicles how Frank Sinatra went from good to great 2010-12-03T22:28:00Z

The sense of loneliness in a toxic world that one detects again and again in Albee’s plays gets its most compelling manifestation in his other unqualified masterpiece, the chilling “A Delicate Balance” from 1966. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

I knew exactly how she felt and what she was going through — her loneliness and shame and fear. ‘False Positive’ and the Horror-Filled Truth About Fertility Treatments 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

His small American town exists in a perpetual twilight where men and women, beset with loneliness, wander the streets hungry for connection. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

And yet, for all his fondness for the Brazilian people and appreciation of the country’s natural beauty, his loneliness grew more and more acute. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Both men attended English boarding schools suffused with Greek verbs and loneliness and regimented pleasures, their atmospheres so identical that they seemed to have been sliced out of some larger pie of pedagogy. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z

In addition, a kind of loneliness was already ingrained in him. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

After leaving DV8 in 1993, he created a series of solos for himself: Human Being, Hell Bent, Original Sin, Resurrection and Frank, which all revolved around themes of love, redemption, loneliness and nihilism. Nigel Charnock obituary 2012-08-07T14:06:41Z

The song went in weird, wonderful directions: after the halfway point, after an anguished series of “Ain’t that the way”s, the song turned sweet and lovely, cozy in its loneliness. Listening to Devon Sproule 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

One of the nicest things about Patti Smith, the author, is her readiness to display the foggy tedium of the creative process, and also its profound loneliness. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

In “Guilt,” she starts out confessing, “Ooh, it hurts/It hurts so much I want to cry” over nothing but stark, bowed double stops; later, a contrapuntal cello melody becomes her companion in loneliness. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z

As the loneliness of our long-distance life lifted, our relationship grew and deepened. Remote Work Gave Us a Life Together. Now What? 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

That there is a serious demand for this sort of thing bespeaks a dark cloud of loneliness shadowing the lives of untold numbers of modern people. Art in Review: LAURIE SIMMONS: ?The Love Doll: Days 1-30? 2011-03-03T22:46:45Z

The principal threats seem to be boredom and loneliness, although it's true that each man must carry a shotgun every time he leaves the station. "How I Ended This Summer": A thriller from the Russian Arctic 2011-02-04T01:30:00Z

“She approaches the great existential subjects — emptiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, death and boyfriends — as if they were a collection of bad habits. That’s what makes her writing so funny. And so sad.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

She talked cryptically of certain choices, behaviors exhibited and her fear of loneliness, but was not ready to go into detail less than two weeks after announcing the split. Melissa Etheridge in "Fearless" mode after split 2010-04-27T22:29:00Z

This book is a brilliant study in loneliness and obsession, and when the story twists towards the end Matheson very cleverly makes us question all that has gone before. Charlie Higson's top 10 horror books 2010-09-08T10:53:00Z

“He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” Perspective | What Biden — and a lot of other people — get wrong about journalists 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

However, if loneliness is the novel's major theme, the series trades that to mull the meaning of power. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Also one of the most beautiful: a simulated-reality fairytale loaded with longing and despair, but in which love eventually overcomes loneliness. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

She enlists Maren’s help and they become close friends, their connection bound up with loneliness, loss and desire. A Deadly Storm, a Witch Hunt and a Village Without Men 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Love triangles, trapezoids and pentagons quickly collapse into existential loneliness and supernatural weirdness. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly for a partnership that even HBO executives acknowledge was stormy, “Luck” is at its core a bittersweet meditation on loneliness and the bonds that bind men past their prime. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson presented the venture as an opportunity to establish emotional connections, and combat loneliness. Pamela Anderson’s Garden of Eden 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

But he’s also making a connection with that soulful gaze, communicating the loneliness of the performer and calling attention to the basic artifice inherent in the performance. A Garry Shandling Photograph That Closes the Book on a Late-Night Era 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

I felt loneliness like I never had before. The bathroom crisis that ruined my life: I couldn’t pee for nine months 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

While on the surface, the topics seemed bland or scattered, Wilson ended up creating a shockingly vulnerable meditation on the inherent loneliness of urban living through the inventive use of seemingly mundane footage. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sam’s naivete seems entirely appropriate to her youth, and Elisabeth’s inability to see what’s happening may be a symptom of her loneliness. Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams was singing about travels and separations, about love giving way to loneliness, about longings and failings: perpetual estrangement amid rare moments of comfort. Music Review: Ryan Adams at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-07T22:57:44Z

In places it’s brutal, with the density of doom metal and the loneliness of desert country. Critic's Notebook: Going Into the Haze in Their Debut Albums 2011-07-12T22:59:41Z

Flynn also was ready to write a mystery from inside a relationship after two novels that she describes as exploring "loneliness and isolation." Flynn's 'Gone Girl' poised to be summer thriller 2012-06-22T17:02:13Z

Ms. Berlin was such an adept writer about loneliness. Reading Is About the Lines That Leap Off the Pages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

But here’s where my thinking about loneliness gets complicated. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

The Sarabande of the English Suite No. 3 began with a succession of chords that evoked proud Spanish guitars but then gradually darkened, ending on a note of bitter loneliness. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

Of course, nobody thinks that a cure for loneliness will happen at a stroke, but maybe careful touch could bring it closer. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The vigils and protests and tributes instill a welcome sense of comfort and community, Palmer says, even if they can’t erase the inherent loneliness of loss. ‘I was her shadow’: As millions cry for justice, Breonna Taylor’s sister faces her own quiet grief 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

She is primarily concerned with the loneliness, the excess, the blazing irresponsibility toward children of that early ’60s circle of artists and writers; she is not particularly interested in the exhilaration. Cultural Studies: Sharing Her Secrets 2011-03-24T21:13:59Z

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy referred to loneliness as a public health epidemic in 2017, warning that chronic loneliness places people at greater risk of depression, anxiety and developing heart disease and dementia. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

With its skeletal narrative and desolate tone, “Bad Fever” is a low-budget oddity, a shambling study of pathological loneliness that begs for our sympathies with defiant reticence. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z

More than anything, Slater sees technology as a healing salve for one of the worst feelings there is: loneliness. Online dating isn’t killing marriage! 2013-01-12T23:00:00Z

She is just a brittle white lady, still herself, still my mom, but gradually slipping away in comfortable, torturous loneliness. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

He insinuates himself into a family’s life out of loneliness, to make friends. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her lyrics ranged from simple declarations of love and loneliness to dark stories steeped in the imagery of fairy tales. 2010-01-08T06:17:00Z

On top of the pain, Antrim experienced deep shame, desperate loneliness and a fear that he had lost everything. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Many psychologists, social scientists and therapists I spoke with expressed hesitance and caution about clinical solutions, favoring a psychotherapy approach to treating chronic loneliness. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Researchers in the US have gone so far as to say that seniors enduring long bouts of loneliness have a 45% higher risk of mortality than the rest. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

One thing is clear: Loneliness can drive you crazy, and extreme loneliness can make you homicidal. Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

He thinks the increase in interest among young people is not only down to the anxieties and loneliness wrought by social media, but also because the idea of actively pursuing a career has been destigmatised. ‘It’s a safety blanket’: why more and more teenagers are relying on life coaches 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

These games are often pitched as antidotes to loneliness and isolation and facilitators of self-discovery and personal growth. A wave of super-earnest card games want you to bare your soul on game night 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Knut Hamsun’s novel, “Hunger,” evokes the desperation and loneliness. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The boxed set features a new version of the track, expanded by a fresh monologue delivered by a mysterious female character addressing a world of isolation and loneliness that reflects life during the pandemic. Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

It's brilliantly directed and surprisingly subtle, with the episode's themes – identity, ambition, loneliness, responsibility, the death of innocence – handled beautifully. Skins bows out with grown-up drama 2013-06-29T05:00:00Z

The Independent's Michael Coveney wrote in his four-star review: "As a schooldays play about hierarchies, sex, suicide and loneliness, the piece hasn't dated, while Mitchell's elegant, incisive writing still pleases and provokes in equal measure." Cambridge spies play pleases critics 2014-04-04T12:15:58Z

A few weeks ago, The Financial Times published a sobering essay on an urgent subject: loneliness in the time of Covid. ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

In “Walden,” Thoreau writes of a starving, exhausted man lost in the woods whose loneliness is relieved by “grotesque visions” that he takes to be real. | 'Letters From the Big Man': ?Letters From the Big Man? Stars Lily Rabe - Review 2011-11-10T21:57:13Z

McDonagh reminds us that it is also a world of rain, loneliness and boredom, from which the young yearn to escape. Review 2010-07-21T23:59:00Z

Onyango, 28, was also shortlisted for his story “This Little Light of Mine,” written from the perspective of a recently disabled man attempting to cure his loneliness with online dating apps. The New Magazines and Journals Shaping Africa’s Literary Scene 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

In its emphasis on the loneliness of small-town women without men, “Caller” directly brings to mind an earlier, much acclaimed play of the same decade, William Inge’s “Picnic.” Theater Review: ‘Harrison, TX,’ Three Plays by Horton Foote 2012-08-15T02:27:25Z

The album may have started from a place of loneliness, it landed at “potent, positive solitude,” she said, stressing the difference. Feist Wants to Ask You Some Questions About Sadness 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Gunning sang alone, which perhaps swells the sense of loneliness in her songs – she calls, but hears no response. Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-17T21:40:00Z

Their aging activates a fresh kind of humanity in their characters, letting us reconnect to our goofiness and, in some cases, feel better the inevitable loneliness that drives people to do silly things. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

You might argue that solitude is just another word for loneliness. How Can I Avoid Feeling Lonely When All My Friends Are Coupled Up? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

But what’s bracing about this film, which Lana Wilson directed, is the way it weds Swift’s loneliness and her arrival at empowerment. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

All the familiar themes are here: the clash of generations, the longing for the old country, the striving and accommodation and loneliness. Theater Review: ‘Rangoon’ by Mayank Keshaviah at Clurman Theater 2012-06-03T21:20:20Z

Beverly Cleary tackled the loneliness of the era in a way that helped readers find brightness and humor in their circumstances. Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

All of these artists had piercing relations to the concept of loneliness; all of them become, in Laing’s hands, symbols of the essential anomie of urban living. Finalists for the NBCC Criticism prize 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton For a convivial chap, Simon Gray was oddly preoccupied with loneliness. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z

She did become lonely and through her loneliness we noticed that she overcame the fear of her enemies and actually changed. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - review 2013-06-21T11:00:00Z

I wore loneliness as an armor to protect myself from pain, the inevitable companion of love. If this is my final tweet 2012-06-29T23:30:00Z

“What they want, and need, is the chance to obsess on their own idiosyncratic terms — to sweat and swerve, lose their balance, get their bearings, battle loneliness, discover resilience,” Hulbert writes. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

And yet, the sturdiest connective tissue among these dread-filled movies is a sensitivity to the punishing nature of loneliness and the sinister aspects of solitude. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

“It is the soundness of sleep that appears to be compromised by feelings of loneliness,” wrote the researchers. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

This phenomenon could also be a side effect of the loneliness of our time. Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

As if the unvarying routine of Luke’s life and the crushing loneliness he feels after his wife leaves him were a time-honored method of holding a reader’s attention. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Watching people eat — especially watching them dine alone — prompted this investigation into loneliness. Dance Review: ‘Dining Alone’ at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2013-04-21T20:08:20Z

In 2010 the Mental Health Foundation found loneliness to be a greater concern among young people than the elderly. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the present day, Natasha navigates her own set of issues: her stagnant career, her dissatisfaction with a good marriage, her loneliness. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

I immediately related to her love of the land, the loneliness in her soul that she was never, ever connected to anything but the land. A Word With: Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai: The ‘Mies Julie’ Stars, Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai 2012-11-26T23:05:04Z

“There’s always a sense of loneliness that goes with that whistle.” Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

And it's about that other side of the coin, loneliness, the brooding cosmic solitude Americans have felt ever since they confronted the overpowering vastness of their continent. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z

Albert, however, still has fantasies: a fire-lit parlor of his own; a little shop with his name out front; the end of loneliness. 'Albert Nobbs': Gender-bender is wistful, intriguing 2012-01-26T22:08:01Z

Slinkachu, meanwhile, toys with scale to play on ideas of loneliness and anonymity, especially in urban environments. Masters of miniature 2011-02-27T00:04:03Z

Poetic technique, allusions and cultural references can’t bolster rather ordinary experiences: loneliness, bad romances, throwing up. Review | Her first memoir was about working as a dominatrix. How can a writer top that? 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

They found that the link between loneliness and impaired sleep quality was nearly 70% higher in those who had experienced or witnessed extreme violence. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

While tracks such as “Posing in Bondage” carry on themes of loneliness and longing, the lead single, “Be Sweet,” is a jolt to the system with its funky bass line and playful ’80s pop chords. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

I saw him perfectly, I saw his loneliness and I saw his feeling of being trapped in his body. Lindsay Hunter on her new novel of addiction, 'Eat Only When You're Hungry' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

When we were in Moscow at Star City there was this sense of loneliness. Q&A: Eva Green on playing an astronaut in ‘Proxima’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Forthright about her loneliness, she turned to other deep friendships for sustenance. Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

He makes no apology for having left out the dismal strands in Joplin's story, except for a recurring note of profound loneliness. Capturing Janis Joplin's intensity onstage takes teamwork — and strong tea 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

You’ve talked at length about the loneliness that inspired the album. Grammys 2015: Sam Smith on new album plans, handling fame 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Even his recent staging at the Young Vic in London of Simon Stephens’s “Song From Far Away,” which some reviewers found too chilly by half, struck me as a deeply affecting elegy to human loneliness. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

More profoundly, she admits that she is trying to escape loneliness. ‘Queen of the Bowery’ embraced roles of sinner and saint 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, when they look at one another, they see their own loneliness. Review: ‘Card and Gift,’ Set in a Seldom-Patronized Shop 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

I don’t think there is any greater loneliness than looking directly at the untamable fury of our world. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

Assembling texts, found objects and materials — some of them embroidered with gorgeously colored portraits — he creates exquisite vignettes that are arch yet poignant studies in loneliness, companioned or not. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bronstein, a filmmaker whose “Frownland” is a minor masterpiece of loneliness and misery, helped edit “Daddy Longlegs” and brings the Safdies’ idea of their father to rich and terrifying life. | 'Daddy Longlegs': Rearing Dad, in Film by Benny and Josh Safdie 2010-05-13T21:08:00Z

To be better than your material is a particular kind of loneliness. The power of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Some studies suggest that knitting, crochet and other crafts can alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and loneliness. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a moment of solace after songs full of sorrow, turmoil and loneliness that add up to Feist’s best and deepest album. Feist?s Solitary Road to New Album ?Metals? 2011-09-18T02:17:42Z

A good hotel, on the other hand, can make up for the sense of displacement and loneliness caused by being away from home. Rock decor 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z

Grief is one of a litany of symptoms that includes sadness, loneliness, anxiety, restlessness, guilt, bodily aches and pains, anger, irritability and frustration. Our first Christmas as empty nesters 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Major Clement Hart, her son, hides his loneliness behind his handsome facade, as well as hideous burns suffered in World War II. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z

The result is a portrait of a woman gifted with intelligence and drive, but marred by narcissism and scarred by a constant sense of loneliness. A woman of substance 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

There are chatty badges, buses, benches and cafes, each designed to help address the UK’s loneliness crisis. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

It is the loneliness of Schuyler’s position that makes me trust it.” Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Crafting a solitary vibe on the wistful “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”, his loneliness is manifest. Neil Young Live Album Reveals Singer-Songwriter’s Emotions 2013-11-27T13:00:02Z

She doesn't look so lonely when she is enjoying her life by herself, but as she starts losing a place to live and work, we find her loneliness in that small apartment. "Plan 75": Dystopian film about euthanasia for elders fueled by "anger towards intolerant society" 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

The insightful stories in her dark debut collection, winning rave reviews everywhere, are about “loneliness, desire, hope and self-awareness.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Thammavongsa’s protagonists find respite from their loneliness in unexpected connections, even if they are only temporary. Where Lonely Refugees Learn English From Daytime Soaps 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

It has verses about lovesick loneliness, and a chorus that concludes, “I got lost on the river, but I got found.” Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

What begins as a reflective memoir of loneliness and longing turns into a methodical investigation, as Wagner digs into the archives, calls up experts and tests her DNA. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

That gives way to tender talk of love and loneliness, which against all odds, is even a little affecting. Movie Review: ‘That’s What She Said,’ a Comedy Directed by Carrie Preston 2012-10-18T21:33:23Z

“You wanna meet in misery park/By the moon so low and lovely/With the gloom that’s above me,” he sings on “Run My Heart,” over taut mid-80s guitars accenting his loneliness. New Music: Music by the Very Best, Twin Shadow and Jeff the Brotherhood 2012-07-16T22:34:10Z

Those shivers owed much to the cinematographer Will Gibson, who died in 2007 and whose skills turned the outback into a hellish landscape of oppressive loneliness. ‘Wolf Creek 2’ Features an Even Scarier Australian Outback 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Society’s wider fear of loneliness is compounded by a “phobia” of old age with the effect of inhibiting attempts to tackle the problem, she added. Number of severely lonely men over 50 set to rise to 1m in 15 years 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

How much were you thinking about what has been called Britain’s “loneliness epidemic” when you were writing the show? In ‘This Way Up,’ Aisling Bea Lets Everyone Be Complex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Every time it looks like the film might be showing some compassion toward his loneliness, he turns around and does something vile to remind us that his plight is almost entirely of his own creation. Forget Joker: here's the film you should see about an extremist loner 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

“This matters because loneliness is actually a health risk,” said Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age. Number of severely lonely men over 50 set to rise to 1m in 15 years 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

“It was disturbing when I was growing up to read about a character I cared about being reduced to physical frailty, being forgotten and abandoned, living in isolation, loneliness and apparent poverty,” he said. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

This time, my year of pushing aside loneliness as best I can, I'm going to try a ballet class. For 2023, I'm giving up loneliness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Who among us, in the dark reaches of the night, hasn’t suffered from the terror of cosmic loneliness or wondered “What really matters”? Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

There’s a beautiful loneliness and sadness in people who dare to do things, which I find cinematic and cool.” David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Unexpectedly touching is a hastily written series of entries by Tennessee Williams from the 1950s; he was being hailed for his genius even as he languished in loneliness and anxiety, dependent on drugs and alcohol. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z

In January, MPs launched the “loneliness commission”, which had initially been set up by Jo Cox, the MP who was murdered in June 2016. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

It’s widely believed that older age is darkened by persistent loneliness. Like hunger or thirst, loneliness in seniors can be eased 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Some of what she does recall is met with blank looks, and there’s loneliness in that. ‘Marjorie Prime,’ a Tender Comedy Starring Lois Smith 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Not only do they blame themselves, but they also begin to expect loss and loneliness. He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

“You’re sensitive. And that means extra pain, extra loneliness, extra sadness,” a night shift attendant tells her. Review | A writer turns her suicide attempts and self-harm into lyrical prose with ‘Juliet the Maniac’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

For them, as for everybody, comedy is a celebration, a protest, an escape from awkwardness and loneliness. Judd Apatow’s Guidebook for Comedy Geeks 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

I never thought of myself as a writer, although in moments of loneliness I loved to write letters to people. Take it from the youngest winner of the toughest horse race: "We all have a bold mode" 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

In Kraftwerk's song, the most delicately haunting in their catalogue, a man sits dolefully in front of the TV, hoping to remedy his loneliness with a "data date". Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z

Work on your friendships A happy social life will not only make you feel more optimistic, but will reduce the toxins generated by loneliness. Optimism, friendship and tidy socks – the secret to living to 100 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

But he lets us feel the cold streak — of fear and loneliness — that runs through Ned’s combative style. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z

“They say Emily was the flower and her sister was the waterer,” Nixon said, talking about the poet’s loneliness, the way she was both powerful in her family and powerless in society. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Some lies are shades of blue, like the ones that dismiss depression and loneliness as two of the biggest dangers to our health. Review | All those books with ‘Lie’ in the title are there for a reason 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

As a young law student, Tate suffers from terrible loneliness and a self-loathing that manifests in a variety of ways. This Memoirist Got By With a Little Help From Strangers 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

His music conjured up the loneliness of the American frontier. Jason Molina obituary 2013-03-19T14:42:00Z

Writing about a breakup in the songs on “21,” she heaved from bitterness and retribution to loneliness and desperate hope of reconciliation. Adele Arrives in an Arena at Last 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Staring at the camera with sensitive adorable moon eyes, Martin shares his loneliness and insecurities with the viewer in rambling deadpan monologues. “Downward Dog”: A surprisingly agile take on the TV romantic comedy 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The loneliness and isolation both said they felt before they met lifted. Wedding Bells for Two 95-Year-Olds 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Anxiety, neurosis and loneliness: always crowd pleasers in New York. Scene City: Warm Reception in Brooklyn for Rufus Wainwright?s ?Prima Donna.? 2012-02-22T18:10:50Z

After all those years of loneliness, could I blame her if she decided to wipe the slate clean of her first brief marriage in preparation for a new life? The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

It seems too simple to say I wrote about loneliness because I was often lonely, although I was. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

If, as he said, a “residue of loneliness” remains from that experience, it’s a loneliness for which “the most fortunate antidote” has been companionship and collaboration. John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

That loneliness is exacerbated by disappointment, as the audience sees each young man that Teresa meets eventually pressure her for money, dispelling her hopes that they could love her. Exploitation, loneliness in sex tourism film at Cannes 2012-05-18T15:21:41Z

Visually stunning transcendental sci-fi movie, in which an isolated astronaut goes insane with loneliness on a space station. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-02-16T00:05:11Z

Max ultimately conquers the Wild Things and becomes their king, but before long, loneliness sets in and he craves home. Taking Maurice Sendak's fantasies to the opera 2012-10-29T11:50:39Z

At the populist end of the list, Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which turns an encounter with loneliness and grim mortality into a life-affirming quest, is already a bestseller. Booker prize judges should be applauded for favouring eccentricity and invention 2012-07-25T18:42:48Z

I wanted being alone to be solitude, not loneliness. Why Dianne Whelan Plans to Conquer the Trans Canada Trail 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

In America, at least according to the rough romanticism this movie embraces, even the bad stuff — loneliness, regret, lousy poker hands, cheap booze, unpayable debts — can make you feel good. Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The second COVID-19 moment was when he moved to Germany in 1986 to work on his thesis and felt such loneliness and isolation he moved back to Argentina without finishing it. Pope Francis’ book explores George Floyd, virus skeptics 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

“And that, in turn, could mean you’re not at your best and you don’t get the best out of your social interactions, which could increase feelings of loneliness.” Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Instead it burrows deeper and deeper into Ragna’s sad past and disturbed mind, raising troubling questions about the human capacity for intimacy and making you wonder whether grief and loneliness might drive a person mad. Damsels in Distress — or Causing It 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Leigh's "Another Year," a bittersweet portrait of a group of middle-aged friends grappling with loneliness, garnered mostly positive reviews. Death and loss dominate dour Cannes fest 2010-05-24T11:30:00Z

And, in her dialogues with her younger self, she conveys the sense of entrapment and loneliness that co-exists with a life of royal privilege. The Audience – review 2013-03-05T23:02:01Z

For all their commercial intent, however, the pictures for The Times revealed a strain of loneliness similar to what runs through “The Americans.” Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

There is such a stigma around loneliness already, so we do need to be careful about the language we use.” Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

For O’Connor, who struggled with loneliness, stage fright, insecurity, agoraphobia and PTSD, it proved especially debilitating. Review | Sinéad O’Connor was a star, then a pariah. She says she wouldn’t change a thing. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

She approaches the great existential subjects — emptiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, death and boyfriends — as if they were a collection of bad habits. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

There’s a loneliness to her story, and humor too. Olive Kitteridge Isn’t One to Brag, but She’s on the Best-Seller List 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

And there’s some loneliness, real loneliness, no matter how big an ark she builds around her. Television: Facing Age With a Saucy Wink 2011-04-28T18:29:14Z

But in these 1971-set chapters, he's concerned that his partner's loneliness, sharpened by despair, poses a danger to himself and others. As "Endeavour" approaches the end of its run, more of us should appreciate its mystery 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

The story takes place in a rural part of Romania that gives the movie its title, a sparsely populated area with beautiful hills, wide valleys, unpaved roads and a spooky loneliness. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

So that’s where the loneliness comes in, because to me the people desperately want the person they most love to know all of them and accept all of them. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

These rental services and robots may feel oceans away, but there are more innocuous examples of the loneliness industry in our every-day-lives. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

"It wasn't just prison violence Chol Soo Lee was facing, but depression, loneliness, isolation, and expectations of wanting to put a happy face on for his supporters and not bring them down." "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

It stars Saoirse Ronan as a young woman from a small town in Ireland who immigrates to the titular borough and finds loneliness, romance and a new, hybrid identity. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The result is a witty story that chews on Internet scams, relationship killers, crackpot theology, baseball mania and the desperate loneliness of modern life. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’

Some of this is surely due to the universality of self-doubt: his loneliness and isolation, his fear of being stigmatized or unloved, still resonates. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Webb is not always an exception to this, even in the darker parts of the book about the fear and loneliness he inherited from his relationship with his late father. Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

It overlooks the fact that soldiers, these super brave superheroes, are vulnerable and affected by guilt, trauma, depression and loneliness. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

People are hungry to dance together again, particularly after the loneliness and anxiety of the last year-and-a-half. Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebounds 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Also, loneliness, friendship, hoarding, hiding, laughing, living and dying. The Week Ahead: Mar. 25 ? 31 2012-03-23T14:29:22Z

So there’s often a joy for me even in incredible failure, loneliness and self-doubt — about 97 percent of my identity was about self-loathing, and even then, there was a lot of hilarity. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Music is still his companion — and creatively, loneliness is still his resource. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone

Everyone grieves in their own way, but the loneliness is universal. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: A widow’s advice for offering help 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

I look forward to her presence and feel relief when she leaves. Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

As disillusioning as these encounters can be, they still open the potential for an escape into unpredictable kinds of solidarity from the vulnerability of loneliness. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z

There was a juxtaposition, Mr. Jonze said, of wide shots of the expansive, digitally tweaked landscape, and tight shots of Theodore, which helped underscore his loneliness. The Carpetbagger: Spike Jonze, Video Game Character 2013-12-20T17:25:33Z

Its themes of religious alienation, loss, loneliness, fear, anger and maybe most important, NIN’s signature theme, control — which I was desperate for — resonated deeply. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a dirge about inevitable, existential loneliness, set to slow, bare-bones arpeggios and funereal drum thuds, and Mercury’s voice expands it to arena scale as he moves between confidential croon and balcony-rattling rasp. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the rare moments when he goes quiet, when he is by himself onstage, you see a man who in the silence hears his own overpowering loneliness. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z

But what made the performance riveting was his stark evocation of the character’s loneliness and pain. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z

It’s much harder, I find, to get viewers interested in shows that feature a much more subtle form of darkness — the rain-cloud moods that are more about existential dread, universal loneliness and human grief. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Anomalisa is about the horror and isolation of that – but also about a larger loneliness borne of living in increasingly identik world. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 4 – Anomalisa 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

But Marion sees a mirror, reflecting her loneliness and regret, and it changes her. Psycho at 60: the enduring power of Hitchcock's shocking game-changer 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Presented thus, as a detached list of facts, it seems apparent we are dealing with loneliness, lovelessness, the meaningless void. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

I made the decision that if I could prevent one person from feeling that self-hatred, loneliness, desperation and a thousand other emotions that I felt, I would. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z

But Mr. Silver has his own zinger-slinging way for stirring mortal shadows and the loneliness to be found in the bosom of your own family. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z

But if there is a cure for the invisibility of loneliness, it is this. Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

She’s still a resolute woman dogged by loneliness, contending with systemic condescension and suspicion. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Ruess is not a young man hampered by subtleties, and sounds weirdly gleeful on songs that deal with betrayal, loneliness and his mother's death. Fun: Some Nights – review 2012-05-24T20:30:01Z

The sting of loneliness burns through the effects of alcohol in “The Bottle Let Me Down.” Merle Haggard carried life’s burdens to the end of the road 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

She’s playing the loneliness and the heartbreak and the rage, and the emotional lunacy, mental breakdown and hauteur. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

That same year in 2000, in "Stronger," she sang, "Stronger than yesterday. Now it's nothing but my way. My loneliness ain't killing me no more. I'm stronger." I was in a cult. Britney was in a conservatorship. Our situations are crazy similar 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

It begins with Julian Jessop, a 79-year-old British painter who is tired of hiding just how great the loneliness that consumes him is. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Its delicate folk songs, rendered mostly on acoustic guitar, are striated with loneliness. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Nor does Ms. Fornés’s “Drowning,” a gentle paean to the laboriousness and loneliness of living small. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

We humans aren’t meant to live in isolation – loneliness has been proven to cause serious repercussions, leading to illness and a 50% increased risk of early death. Let's touch: why physical connection between human beings matters 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Anna, in the meantime, doesn't need to broadcast her loneliness with such force; Konkle wears it on her face and downturned gaze. As "PEN15" draws to a close, we're left in the hell of seventh grade, exactly as it should be 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Salonen likes to portray Bluebeard in “sad, dark and not always so aggressive colors,” he said, a depiction of the essential loneliness of man. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

In the UK, more than 9 million adults report being always or often lonely and it is becoming clear that chronic loneliness and social isolation can have profound health consequences. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

And so it went: heartbreak, loneliness, betrayal, jealousy, unreturned phone calls. CMJ 2014: S's Resentment, Odessa's Tranquility 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Each of the three spooky stories the men tells newcomer Valerie discloses something about themselves, just as her climactic tale suggests that she will fit easily into this world of loneliness and loss. The Weir – review 2013-04-26T12:31:37Z

A new study suggests that, even under less extreme circumstances, loneliness primes us to lower the bar on who, or what, we’ll befriend. The Lonely Can't Tell Other People From Dolls 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The 'insights' the play provides into global misogyny, dislocation, the human default position of loneliness, whatever, were banal and trite. Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z

It's no secret that the social media craze — our Twitter cliques, our obsessive Facebooking as our real children pull at our sleeves — is a Band-Aid on the loneliness our culture has created. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

“I knew that they wouldn’t experience the pain and the torment, the isolation, the loneliness that I experienced,” he says. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay

Around midnight at the Comedy Cellar another night this month, Attell invited his audience to imagine the loneliness of a worker making Subway sandwiches in an empty restaurant. Dave Attell Is Our Greatest Club Comic (Says the Writer He Made Fun Of) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Throughout his long career, you see spectacular moments of sadness or rage or revenge or menace or loneliness, but you always see a man working,” Macy notes. Philip Baker Hall is your favorite actor whose name you can’t quite place 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Gloomy keys recur throughout the album, on “Rich as Hell,” “Time I’m On” and other songs, setting a tone of contemplative loneliness. The Gut-Level Emotions of YoungBoy Never Broke Again 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

I texted my ex to tell him what happened and to ease the unbearable loneliness this death had unleashed in me. When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

As biopic, black comedy and portrait of celebrity loneliness, Behind the Candelabra really is hard to beat. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z

Viewers witness her whirlwind marriage to King George III, meet her delinquent children and come to better understand her motivations and loneliness. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

As with her HBO show “Girls,” the few, rare interactions that sound remotely pleasurable are underscored by an awareness that loneliness is never far away. The most Lena-Dunham sex scenes from Lena Dunham’s new book 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

But I think it was more than just the longing bred from loneliness and isolation. Driving 2,130 Miles for a Haircut 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

His boundless empathy, his devotion to helping everyone else allows him to ignore his own festering grief and loneliness. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

In "Pretty Woman," it is isolation and loneliness that bring Vivian and Edward together. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Again and again, “Ka” depicts quiet loneliness — because Dar Oakley connects human and crow cultures he isn’t quite at home in either — and achingly evokes the spring-fever of dawning love. A book-length historical fantasy about a crow? It’s not as birdbrained as that sounds. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

When the loneliness became absolutely unbearable, I realized I needed to return home. A Surprising First Live Show, in the Hometown I Once Fled 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

A third, darker pandemic effect was a kind of fatalism, an après moi le déluge attitude festered in months of loneliness, as well as constant news of death and disease. That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Then he leaps into the crowd, singing from the aisles as flashbulbs pop and people grin in disbelief, making the a capella ending as incongruous as it is eerie: "It's the loneliness that's the killer." Seal – review 2012-12-10T18:05:19Z

But although Gilman writes well about loneliness, she does so without sentimentality. Blue Surge ? review 2011-08-08T17:40:01Z

Here is how he describes the loneliness of the first white settlement on the West Coast: ‘Astoria’: 19th-century fortune hunters in the Pacific Northwest 2014-03-06T20:27:01Z

In this film he uses stop-motion puppets to depict loneliness, love and despair. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mountain Lion and Me’ and ‘Speechless’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Relationship breakdown, divorce and loneliness can be further triggers, along with the emergence of health issues. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

A din of loneliness haunts writer-director Taylor's quartet of characters as they meander through actual and abstract spaces, simultaneously seeking and fleeing from definition in a compartmentalized modern world. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

One is a somewhat controversial work about a tender love affair, a troubled honeymoon and the loneliness of marriage. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Science says that it is meaningful relationships that ease loneliness, not a full social calendar. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

The novels sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with “Forever” provided a crash course in change, uncertainty, loneliness and countless other scourges of adolescence. The Essential Judy Blume 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The sense of loneliness – of isolated souls, failed by their institutions, pummelled by the forces of big money – seems to seep under your skin, and to stay there. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z

It’s feverish but unhurried, a slowly smoldering set that’s emphatic about loneliness. Frank Ocean Ends His Long Silence With a Variety of Works 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

Often there are people in his pictures — pedestrians, joggers, bicyclists — but even then there is a spectral silence as if they were ghosts summoned by Hopperesque loneliness. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z

The songs themselves explore desire, love and loneliness. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, the loneliness is shared, as in Tom's relationship with Anabel, who restricts herself until they are a miserable society of two. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Haunted by mortal loneliness, they often arrive at a quiet exultation. Poetry review: Christian Wiman’s ‘Once in the West’ and Mary Oliver’s ‘Blue Horses’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

It is inspired by the emotional currents of Zhang’s upbringing, particularly the loneliness and insecurity of a childhood spent moving around. How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

All three drawings evoke feelings of loss or isolation, a loneliness of things in the world that seems analogous to human isolation and loneliness. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“I love watching one dancer alone onstage, but, for me, solos are always connected to a form of loneliness,” he said. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Choreography for ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-23T21:30:27Z

But the core thing I kept finding was loneliness, and with every character in the show I would go, what’s their loneliness? In ‘This Way Up,’ Aisling Bea Lets Everyone Be Complex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Franz Kafka … ‘the loneliness of being among people’. Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge 2010-07-19T20:43:00Z

A classic fantasy, in which the hero's thrill at possessing great power is offset by its burden of loneliness and secrecy. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z

A more sympathetic view is that she has been tapping into a river of grief and loneliness running under the surface of American life. Art Review: A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters 2011-02-24T22:35:21Z

Though her settings are of rented apartments, hospitals which no longer serve the modern-day needs of the survivors, and, distinctively, of the loneliness of post-wall Berlin, her spirit is solidly within the highest German traditions. Alice by Judith Hermann ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:06Z

The result is a comedy of unease, marked by parental guilt, loneliness, fear of aging and the struggle to fit in. These Are the Best and Worst (Actually New) Sitcoms This Fall 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

They also imbue empty cars and opaque windows, which might otherwise read simply as easy metaphors for loneliness and alienation, with a real, if mysterious, presence. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The author’s task is to replicate the nostalgia and hope his characters feel as they set out for new futures, or the fear, resentment and loneliness of those left behind. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

So we have actors playing two actors who weren’t quite up to healing each other’s loneliness, in part because they had no way of communicating. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

A group of four grown men sitting around talking about dissatisfaction and loneliness was far more comfortable than I would have imagined. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Isolationism personally and politically only serves to compound our sense of loneliness. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’ Doesn’t Want to Be Alone Anymore 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“His paintings seem to run parallel with how Einar was, the soulful colors, the loneliness,” she said. Below the Line: Designing ‘The Danish Girl’ 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Loneliness also causes depression, anxiety, demoralization and despair. Increasingly we understand that loneliness endangers the body as well.” Loneliness endangers the body as well: how to stay connected with elderly loved ones 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Today's 3 Minute Masterpiece explores the loneliness of being on a different plane. 3 Minute Masterpiece winners: 11th of 11 2012-05-17T22:01:06Z

Written by Bonnie Bramlett and Joey Cooper, this last song speculated on the joy and happiness to be found in a kiss and the way that love can chase out loneliness. The Power of Love: a magical hit in which the secular and the spiritual entwine 2012-11-15T20:00:00Z

I think there is a lot of Julie’s fighting spirit in me, but the brokenness and the loneliness is something I quite easily tapped into just through observation of people in my life. A Word With: Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai: The ‘Mies Julie’ Stars, Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai 2012-11-26T23:05:04Z

She started walking away from Jake and all the idiot boys, walking away from the prison of her youth and beauty and into the hard-fought-for loneliness of her future.” Books Of the Times: No Vaccine for Agony From Viral E-Mail 2011-07-24T22:22:40Z

But Mr. Del Tredici also warned young composers to be prepared to “endure loneliness” if their bliss takes them into unfashionable realms of contemporary music. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z

I like Christmas songs but ours, No Christmas, was more of a melancholy anti-Christmas song because it was all about guilt, loneliness and loss. Twelve tips for the Flaming Lips 2011-01-12T14:09:59Z

But in a time defined by isolation and loneliness, his messages resonated with far more than the 30 or 40 subscribers he expected as the world craved connection. Amid the pandemic, people crave connection. The ‘Internet’s Dad’ provides it. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

It is enticing to believe that our coronavirus-induced loneliness is so interesting as to be worthy of artistic representation. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It was the Civil War, so there’s loneliness, dead people, sadness, winning, losing,” Dazzle said. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

But she keeps emailing back, both to suss out details and to keep her loneliness at bay. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The views over the Atlantic were endless, and gulls and gannets soared and dived, their cries echoing with either anguished loneliness or triumphant salvation, possibly a bit of both. ‘Star Wars’ Fever Extends to an Ancient Irish Island 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

I was a tech writer before I became a poet, and both careers lend themselves to loneliness, confinement. Marriage in the time of coronavirus: Sheltering in place, together, in the U.S. outbreak epicenter 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

“I carry the horseshoe with me wherever I go now. I still get emotional about it – the power, and the loneliness, and the pain of that horse. That’s Lear.” Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

The far-from-happy works of Anton Chekhov seem right at home in a modern office -- a hive of heartbreak, loneliness and greed. World's worst office, 1 good play 2011-11-14T22:28:06Z

In the loneliness of the rural South, the vendors were welcomed for much needed goods and news. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mostly that’s because the actresses are so appealing, but also because the writing is imaginative and a little dark — the comedy is etched in the single woman’s battle with loneliness. Television Review : Life With a Gay Ex-Husband. It Happens. 2011-06-14T22:30:15Z

So, apparently, has their luck: Chiquita has been accused of fraud and sent to prison, leaving Chela mired in loneliness and encroaching poverty. This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The loneliness was so intense I thought it would kill me. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

In its study of loss and loneliness, the play clearly owes a debt to Chekhov. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z

He finds himself missing her dreadfully, and misinterprets that sadness and loneliness as a passionate longing for Megan. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

Both women’s lives, touched by the glare of the spotlight and the loneliness of fame, were the subjects of unrelenting curiosity. Fans Highlight Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Bond With Her Mother 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

The story of Judy Vogel, a middle-aged writer, mother and wife consumed with loneliness as her husband and son drift away, it is a tale that elicits a curious combination of those feelings. Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Instead, he wrote the same songs about thwarted ambition and loneliness well into his 50s, as if he were still composing from a "rented room in Whalley Range", rather than, say, Los Angeles. Morrissey's retirement will be the perfect ending 2012-06-07T15:40:01Z

The image is a little poem of loneliness, as plaintive as the sound of a sitar played far away late at night. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

Inspired in part by the divorce of his parents, Steven Spielberg has said “E. T. The Extra Terrestrial,” with its themes of loss, loneliness and alienation, is one of his most personal films. Review: 'E.T.' comes home to the Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

Man and milieu understand each other here, and they exhale a shared, crusted loneliness and a thick funk of impure thoughts and deeds. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z

Alienation produces loneliness, for which, as Marianne Moore said, solitude is the cure. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z

One sad expat is said to feel her loneliness “like stomach rolls, forming over who she’d been.” New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z

Among his central observations is that he enjoys the loneliness of his suffering. Books of The Times: Wallowing in Grief Over Maman 2010-10-14T20:53:00Z

The prose is peppered with sad, lyrical sentences that hint at his childhood loneliness and confusion. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z