Then, in the work's most powerful episode, bits of newspaper blew across the stage while the dancers huddled in a lonely crowd.

Breaking out from this lonely crowd, individuals might slam against the wall or engage in deadpan caresses.

A less lonely, not a more lonely crowd, may be emerging from the Internet.

The coffee vendor outside the office who knows that you, a face in the lonely crowd, take milk, no sugar.

The full cast, now a lonely crowd, assembles onstage.

In this portrait of a lonely crowd, to a tape of a pop-music radio show, deliberately tentative-looking movements give way to wild spasms.

Americans lived in lonely crowds.

Although the ballet is essentially pure movement, the soloists suggest seekers in a lonely crowd.

David Riesman, the Harvard sociologist, coined "the lonely crowd" to describe a paradoxical modern spiritual plight.

Yet you could say that this protagonist is part of the lonely crowd, in the social scientist David Riesman's phrase - meaning all of us.