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  • Ignoring backfromvacationitis may result in whining fits, shivering, muscle spasms and, in some severe cases, hermitism.

    Post-vacation adjustment « Oh. Claire 2010

  • I asked, for lack of anything better to say. 32 year, with a two-and-a-half year old and stubbly legs and a penchant for extreme hermitism.

    blog: My Heart in San Francisco 2008

  • I asked, for lack of anything better to say. 32 year, with a two-and-a-half year old and stubbly legs and a penchant for extreme hermitism.

    blog: February 2008 2008

  • Extended hermitism--even my limited sort, which comes with a computer and a dog--is a tough gig.

    I Sit In Solemn Silence In a Dull, Dark Den yuki_onna 2005

  • But if he was something of a social lion, his roar was subdued by a streak of hermitism perhaps rooted in a deeply religious psyche nourished by Catholic teachings.

    Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

  • But if he was something of a social lion, his roar was subdued by a streak of hermitism perhaps rooted in a deeply religious psyche nourished by Catholic teachings.

    Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

  • Mr. Weightman is right about the renunciation of hermitism, to an extent (what Artaud rejects has been more usually titled Orphism), but Artaud's move is to Dionysius, from herald or singer to participant.

    A Wearying Task Schaff, David S. Stevens 1968

  • I'll be hanged, "he said to himself, as he closed the door of the stove," if this isn't hermitism with a vengeance.

    The Associate Hermits Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • The moral is everywhere misanthropic and antisocial; it disgusts men with life and with society; and tends only to encourage hermitism and celibacy.

    The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

  • Eventually Olympic watching lost its lustre we’d been watching it, via online streaming, for 2 days straight at this point and the boyfriend and I emerged from our self-imposed hermitism to go rent a movie.

    I accidentaly watched a romantic comedy on Valentine’s Day « Oh. Claire 2010

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