isolato

Definitions

An isolated person; a hermit or outsider.

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Examples

“At the same time, Woolson clearly portrays the danger Fog courted by remaining isolated in his castle, for if no stranger had ever come⟳ for Silver, when Fog died of old age she would have⟳ starved to death. In this paradox of strength and naiveté inevitably forced to face⟳ death or return⟳ to society, Woolson admits that to remain⟳ an isolato on an island is to refuse⟳ to acknowledge reality.”

“Moreover, whereas Oppen was often at the center of literary activity, Bronk was something of an isolato — not quite in the mold of a Dickinson, but not so very far from it either. He had no interest⟳ in "poetics" or in literary politics and only the most tangential relations to any school or circle of poets.”

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