In the twelfth century, there was a sudden multiplication of women's hospices, houses of reclusion, and beguinages of all sizes. |
No sooner had her career begun, it seemed, than she retreated into the reclusion usually reserved for more established acts. |
In any case, for Gong reclusion was ultimately as much a mental as a physical state, intensely expressed in ash-colored unpeopled landscapes. |
His last years were spent in reclusion and were characterized by melancholy and growing religious fervour. |
For the next five years, Ting plans to live in reclusion and focus on a new breakthrough in his art. |
And I am one of them – a Cambridge finalist, attempting to deal with the Oxbridge stress in the only way I know: caffeine hits and reclusion. |