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His university has three or four students a year who exhibit a worrisome combination of self-isolation and simmering aggression, he says, and they're required to accept treatment on campus as a condition of staying in school.
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His university has three or four students a year who exhibit a worrisome combination of self-isolation and simmering aggression, he says, and they're required to accept treatment on campus as a condition of staying in school.
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I had been so impressed with our severely limited ability to perceive anything reliably that I preferred a position of humble dignity to a position of stupid pride - the position assumed by supposedly daring and self-sufficient agnostics who all too often live in icy, narrow self-isolation.
Asad Khan: Islam At the Cross Roads: 'Submitting One's Intellect' Asad Khan 2011
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FINDING FORRESTER: Not directly based on Salinger's life, protagonist William Forrester (Sean Connery) nonetheless shares some commonalities with the author, most notably his self-isolation.
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As such, the Obama administration has put itself in a position of self-isolation and duplicity, at a critical time in its relationship with Arab change.
Raghida Dergham: Palestine at the United Nations: Sidestepped by both Friends and the World's Major Players Raghida Dergham 2011
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The country's adversaries would be emboldened by Israel's self-isolation and seeming irrationality.
Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success Steven L. Spiegel 2010
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The country's adversaries would be emboldened by Israel's self-isolation and seeming irrationality.
Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success Steven L. Spiegel 2010
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( "Saturday Night Live," we can hope, will continue to keep NPR's producers honest; Alec Baldwin's hilarious "Schweddy Balls" skit suggests some of NPR's tendencies toward self-isolation.)
Why Fox News should help fund NPR Steve Coll 2010
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The country's adversaries would be emboldened by Israel's self-isolation and seeming irrationality.
Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success Steven L. Spiegel 2010
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The country's adversaries would be emboldened by Israel's self-isolation and seeming irrationality.
Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success Steven L. Spiegel 2010
bilby commented on the word self-isolation
Have a feeling the Word of the Year list is going to be depressing litany:
coronavirus
self-isolation
community transmission
COVID-19
flattening the curve
etc.
March 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word self-isolation
Maybe pour out a quarantini?
March 14, 2020
bilby commented on the word self-isolation
A promising development, at least.
March 14, 2020
bilby commented on the word self-isolation
Ahem:
"Stats
‘self-isolation’ is no one's favorite word yet..."
March 14, 2020
bilby commented on the word self-isolation
social distancing
March 17, 2020