Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found faith leads him to paper riches, then promptly to rags, followed by a heart attack the recovery from which dictates that he abandon drink, smoke, and sex. Exiled to High Rook House in Yorkshire, an estate which he bought in better times to use as a retreat, Keating muses over the meaning of his forced, inactivity...
Many people express the view that this new psychobabble is a constructive retreat from obfuscating clinical terms but, if so, it is only a retreat into a sweet banality, a sort of syrup poured over conversations in order to make them go down smoother...
With five minutes to play Dartmouth was again penalized for being off-side, this time for failing to retreat on a free kick. Hilton converted from 30 yards out, closing...
...From her retreat on the edge of Washington State's Puget Sound-"one room, one enormous window, one cat, one spider, and one person"-Dillard gazes out at nature and sees beyond the molecular realities ("Each thing in the world is moving, cell by cell") and even beyond Emerson's transcendental glorification to mull a final unknown: "Did Christ descend once and for all to no purpose, in a kind of divine and kenotic suicide, or ascend once and for all, pulling his cross up after him like a rope ladder home...
...than running was for the delinquent in Sillitoe's earlier book, sometimes to the detriment of Widower's Son. Sillitoe tries to convey the idea of a gunnery officer's precision-oriented life with the most heavy-handed, redundant descriptions in the book. The emotional emptiness of William's retreat into the army, however, is that he retains a nostalgia for his home town but always feels the needs to be "mobile," usually desires to go overseas where, he believes, a soldier belongs...