| He was a reluctant celebrity, less comfortable in the limelight than in the hermit-like world he fashioned for himself off the pitcher's mound. |
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| I am anti-social and hermit-like and can only take most people in small doses. |
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| In an attempt to break out of my recent hermit-like state, I've decided to try going out and being vaguely sociable a bit more often. |
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| Most lonely people remain that way, only occasionally lifted out of their hermit-like social life to experience bitter disappointment. |
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| He eked out a hermit-like existence in a cottage in Ireland without electricity or running water. |
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| Being hermit-like, I tend to blend in to the surroundings more often than I make an impression. |
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| The brothers had been hermit-like farmers since they were children, living a secluded life of poverty and near inseparability. |
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| It was also a collaborative activity, which is always fun, especially as an antidote to the normal rather hermit-like existence of writing and research. |
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| In a rare interview with CNN in 1997, Mr Pynchon pooh-poohed his hermit-like reputation. |
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| What is surprising is that the notoriously hermit-like director has agreed to accept the award in person. |
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| In contrast to my hermit-like personality, I'm fascinated by people. |
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| Inside the boats, in these hermit-like conditions, where we can only wonder how they will cope with the violent movements, I have paid particular attention to the means of communication. |
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| By the time the half-starved Lucy is discovered, the incompetent local lawyer is unable to trace them. Lucy grows up, hermit-like, in the old house with two loyal family retainers who remain there. |
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| His parents are now divorced, and while he's flying his mother over next summer, he hardly ever sees his dad, who lives a hermit-like existence on the opposite side of town to his mother. |
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| But this is a much more generous and approachable book, much less hermetic or hermit-like, than popular images of Hughes would lead you to expect. |
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| But there was nothing hermit-like about their lives. |
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