Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another.

It rests ultimately on a strong idea of spiritual isolation; the same that makes women religious.

Casual references to the breakdown of his marriage increase our sense of Michael's spiritual isolation.

The consequences were uniformly the same in all countries: spiritual isolation and a morbid religious mood.

The spiritual isolation, the feeling that the sufferer is "special and different" from other people and misunderstood by them, results in recurrent thoughts of victimisation.

Self-pity: Having addictive disease in the family is a lonely situation but it is made more so by the spiritual isolation.

The sinister quality I had first felt so strongly in him proved to be spiritual isolation.

Even though she had never belonged to any party, the writer experienced spiritual isolation as well as open attacks of politicall extremists.

The play has them practically talking themselves out of their spiritual isolation - a singularly undramatic device.

In her writing, physical and mental aberrations reflect what she perceived as "moral and spiritual isolation."