What was once a festive communal activity has become lowly, lonely work.

And they may be surprised that he regards writing as lonely work and looks for ways to make it less so.

Another winter of lonely work passed at the Academy.

But such benefit is a side effect of our lonely work, not its main purpose.

Even with that credo in mind, writing is lonely work.

It is lonely work, and the living conditions are tough.

However, she found it lonely work, and never undertook another project on this scale.

She told others that it was rewarding but lonely work.

Writing is lonely work, but no writer truly labors alone.