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228 examples of Solitary in a sentence

This movie should be shown to prison inmates in solitary confinement.
After running around corridors for an hour and a half, being put in solitary confinement (although allowed out to have sex, because sweet mercy that's what being Jean Claude Van Damme is about) Burke suddenly finds out inmates are being killed and their organs removed, not in some event relating last hour's worth of clues he'd been gathering but because the guards left a surgical saw conveniently next to their big suspicious medical cabinet.
Set in a post-apocalyptic future (for the audience of 1971) the film attempts to show a world populated by a single solitary man.
A week in solitary confinement would be preferable to the torture one endures during the 88 minutes of this stinker.
One can never forget the desperate attempts at surviving the solitary confinement portrayed by the vastly talented Steve McQueen.
Director Martin Cuenca develops an interconnecting puzzle of conflicted characters in modern Spain: you have your social worker mom who's teenage son entraps himself in his room each day in order to avoid interaction with others, you have your solitary ex-convict who stalks his former cellmate, you have your amateur pilot who dreams of going to Miami (talk about going to Hard Times!
Ged's solitary search for understanding is replaced by a buddy flick, with Vetch now providing comic relief.
Imagine the argument the government gave for Kevin being in solitary today, "if he so much as has access to a payphone, he can call a certain number and whistle a certain frequency to create a nuclear war".
His solitary activity (outside of attending class and smoking) was playing his lefty-guitar at high volume.
Although at times, he just acted as McQueen, he did a wonderful job expressing suffering in the solitary confinement scene, and great towards the end of the movie.
'Papillon' is the forceful portrait of a defiant man, who survives harrowing years of his life in small solitary cells, suffering the worst type of brutality and despair...
The movie portrays the horrors of solitary excellently and of all the worst things that a human may do to the other, i think solitary lies at the lowest level of humanity.
You can feel it through, the unbearable distress of solitary confinement and how it cripples all you ability to think and believe.
I am referring of course to the scene where Papillon is sent to solitary confinement for two years.
I gave this movie one solitary star, and I suppose I will attribute that one to the actress who played Mary, the rival queen as hers was the only acting that stood out to me.
In any case, it is the sad, solitary privilege of human beings to kill our own consciously, as well as to commit suicide.
The nonsexual torture that was committed ranged from beatings and suffocation, electrodes attached to genitals, and forced sleep deprivation, to prisoners being hung by the wrists from the ceiling and placed in solitary confinement until psychosis was induced.
Even a solitary superpower should follow this rule of thumb: try multilateralism first.
Every Indian who follows the Olympics has cringed scanning the daily list of medal winners, eyes traveling down past dozens of nations big and small before alighting on a solitary Indian bronze in tennis or wrestling.
As Karen Dawn points out in her book Thanking the Monkey, solitary confinement is considered cruel punishment for humans.
For a year and a half of that period, I was held in solitary confinement, without access to visitors, reading materials, or even paper and pen.
Solitary confinement in D Block was seen as the harshest punishment, and it was never used for more than 48 hours at a time.
Previously, the enemy was solitary, armed to the teeth, and quite predictable.
And Flint is not a solitary case; it is emblematic of a global problem.
An Unhinged Democracy in AmericaNEW YORK – Alexis de Tocqueville, a liberal French aristocrat, visited the United States in 1831 ostensibly to write a study of its “enlightened” prison system (locking people up in solitary confinement like penitent monks was the latest modern idea).
And the parallel between the classic tale and the unfolding story of the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s solitary battle against America’s massive security establishment is inescapable.
Chua’s focus is unrelentingly on solitary activities in the home, with no encouragement of group activities, or of concern for others, either in school or in the wider community.
Tigers lead solitary lives, except for mothers with their cubs.
He was let out from time to time, but under guard like a zoo animal, to go to some spa or to play solitary holes of golf, one of the many manifestations of “bourgeois liberalization” that his reform efforts allowed to leak through China’s once hermetic seal.
Instead, I argue that while most people are good most of the time, they can readily be led to act anti-socially, because most people are rarely solitary figures improvising soliloquies on the empty stage of life.
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