"When I come here, the rest of the world doesn't exist," she said.
She walked, looking only at him as if the rest of the world no longer existed.
For all the attention that he paid them, the rest of his team might just as well have not existed.
It was as if the rest of the world did not exist.
As far as they were concerned, the rest of the human race might not exist.
The rest exists only on a computer hard drive, in electronic bank accounts around the world.
Family, love, breakfast, and the rest of a silly world no longer existed for him.
The rest of us simply don't exist for him any more.
It is as if the rest of the building doesn't exist.
But for him, at this moment, the rest of the world doesn't exist.