Word: hermitically
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...work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands more by every conceivable combination of instruments, from jazz bands to harmonica ensembles. Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths gaped incredulously as this symphonic work began to outsell their own best sellers. U. S. lowbrows who had never heard of shy, hermit-like French Impressionist Maurice Ravel sang, hummed, whistled and danced to his Bolero...
Isolation, "Theoretically, it is possible for an individual to lead a hermit existence, and for a family or a community to segregate itself and attempt to live solely within and unto itself. But in the end, an inexorable price must be paid for such isolation; and directly or indirectly, that price is always paid by the individual...
...Artist Alexander Calder. Two duelists on skates approach each other with impedimenta as weird as the White Knight's. One of them grins from within a birdcage-topped barrel, while the other, armed with poker & tongs, crouches under the carapace of a sheep-skull. A bored hermit reclining in the background is ostentatiously not interested...
...lives a hermit sort of life. Getting up about 8, he has breakfast in his rooms, works until 12, then shaves, gets dressed, and goes out to some restaurant for lunch. When Mr. Cory is not here, and he is with him only three months or so every year, Santayana prefers to have lunch alone in his rooms. Thence for a stroll, after which he gets back to the Hotel about tea time, gets into his grey dressing gown and now and then receives a few visitors; though Cory tells me he's rather reluctant to see people. Dinner...
...John would not be forgotten. He revived. When he returned to the kinfolks to claim his property, they insisted that he was a dead Injun. John was ostracized and he became a hermit. Grimly determined to recover his horses, he took them, one by one, in the darkness of several nights...