Literary notes about isolated (AI summary)
In literature, “isolated” frequently conveys a sense of separation—whether referring to physical remoteness or an emotional state. The term is used to depict settings that stand apart from their surroundings, from a lonely hillock [1] or an isolated door [2] to a remote valley or building [3][4]. It also describes characters’ conditions, suggesting both alienation and individuality, as when love sets individuals apart from the world [5] or a person lives a solitary, singular life [6]. Additionally, “isolated” can emphasize the spartan nature of certain occurrences, highlighting exceptional events or details withdrawn from a broader context [7][8]. Through these varied applications, the word enriches narrative texture by underscoring distinctions between the individual and the collective, the unique and the commonplace [9][10].
- W.N.W. (at 280° b.m.) is a most curious conical hill, standing isolated and very high above the plain.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I was selected to take charge during certain hours of the night of a small isolated door upon the southwest side of the building.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - In this valley were magnificent gardens planted by Hassen-ben-Sabah, and in these gardens isolated pavilions.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - “Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Surely it was no ignoble cravings, no base intentions, had brought us to this; it was love had isolated us.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - And then this money came only to me: not to me and a rejoicing family, but to my isolated self.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - I know that the siege of Clusium and other isolated events can be quoted against me; but I am citing laws and customs.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - After all there is no value in isolated facts for science, however striking and novel they might seem in themselves.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - He was isolated within his own clear, fine atmosphere, and as still as if fated.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - How far the perversity of the inanimate can lead I saw in a criminal case in which a big isolated hay-stack was set on fire.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
