"I am sorry that you are sending me away into virtual exile," I said.

After eight years of struggle and virtual artistic exile, he was finally granted permission to leave the Soviet Union.

The film's initial failure led to Hopper's virtual exile from Hollywood, one that lasted well over a decade.

The scandal forced producers Barry and Enright into virtual exile.

Flora could not have been his contact, as she had been in virtual exile in Shadow herself until recently.

Their hit-and-run attacks have pinned down 18,000 peacekeeping troops in virtual internal exile.

He was turned into a virtual exile on his own planet," Marouk said.

It must have been torture for him not to be there when the child was born, and then to mourn his death alone, in virtual exile.

This has become a virtual exile to us, and we come to doubt whether we will ever sail on those sweet seas again.

He joined the monarch in virtual exile in England.