I would doubt that, because it's a much more seclusive country than Iran. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
"Strong regressive and seclusive tendencies," Bassett explained, solemnly. From Wordnik.com. [This Crowded Earth] Reference
What does the invasive and seclusive life of these children have to do with the Easter Bunny?. From Wordnik.com. [Worshipping the living goddess: Is it a violation of human rights?] Reference
It's kept behind "especially high walls" for privacy and seclusive separation from other operations based there. From Wordnik.com. [Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation] Reference
He is very seclusive, keeping himself aloof from the other patients, as he considers himself very much their superior. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Grant had come to Oakdale late the previous autumn, and was living with his aunt, an odd, seclusive spinster, by the name of Priscilla Kent. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
"Oh, do you think so, you seclusive wretch," the headman said, as other villagers closed in around them, each looking more surly than the others. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
These patients are seclusive and avoid social contact, and they are indifferent to hospital staff, visitors, relatives, and their physical environs. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
They become suspicious, seclusive, introspective, spend sleepless nights, until suddenly, in the stillness of night, they perceive isolated phonemes. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Owing partly to the radical hatred of Europeans, partly to the suspicious and seclusive nature of the Moor, the presence of foreigners in the sacred Slave Market was tabooed. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
During his sojourn in the Government Hospital for the Insane, he was always very suspicious and seclusive, keeping to his room practically all the time and aloof from the other patients in the ward. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
What is the seclusive or distinguishing term between them?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
They were exclusive and seclusive, and were spoken of in subdued tones. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico.] Reference
Harold Ober Associates, told press that the seclusive writer died of natural causes. From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
There's the Lucky 38, the most impressive and seclusive hotel, as that's where Mr. House lives. From Wordnik.com. [1UP RSS feed] Reference
We must have vision, but we must not be visionaries; we must be suppliants, but not cloistered and seclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference
He remained seclusive, however, refusing to appear on television and not performing his first concert until March 18, 1975. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Love of study taught me seclusive habits; I read long and late; and the desire of a finished education became the passion of my life. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
For example, the ticquer becomes asocial, seclusive and shuns society because of the consciousness of the condition and the exaggerated sensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Having lived in Cornish, New Hampshire, Mr. Salinger's representative, Harold Ober Associates, told press that the seclusive writer died of natural causes. From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
It is the seclusive residence of some four thousand lamas and, at festive seasons, the goal of pilgrimages from all Buddhist countries contiguous to Tibet. From Wordnik.com. [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference
He may of course be seclusive and apt to feel the constraints of contact with others as wearying and unsatisfactory; he is not easily bored or made restless. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
Mr R. has strong notions of leaving Salisbury and retiring to some seclusive mountain district, where he would be somewhat secure against the ravages of civil war whenever it shall come. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to his wife Mary Ellen Hedrick, October, 22 1856] Reference
The effect of too affectionate a home training, too assertive parenthood, is to dwarf the individuality of the child and make him a sort of parasite, out of contact with his contemporaries, seclusive and odd. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
This feeling of inferiority may arise from purely accidental matters, such as appearance, deformity, tone of voice, etc., and the individual may either hide, become seclusive or else brazen it out, so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
Tennyson, who was not a man among men -- being shy as a whip-poor-will, seclusive as flowers which haunt the woodland shadows -- yet those reading him must know how accurately he reads the human heart; and his characterization of Guinevere, Pelleas, Bedivere, Enid, the lover in. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
To that false friend he came at this time with only too great assiduity, and the chloral, added to the seclusive habit of life, induced a series of terrible though intermittent illnesses and a morbid condition of mind in which for a little while he was the victim of many painful delusions. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference
However ill-qualified I might be for other tasks, for this particular business of establishing neighbourly relations with a very secluded and seclusive Asiatic people, difficult of approach both on account of their natural disposition and of the mighty mountain barrier which stood between them and the rest of the world, I was esteemed to have peculiar qualifications. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
Bridge, then living in bachelor quarters at Portsmouth Navy Yard, conceived the rather daring idea of a sailor house-party with Hawthorne as its centre, for the purpose of making him acquainted with the political group in whose hands influence lay; and, if it be remembered that the Hawthornes had not spent an evening out for years, and still continued their seclusive life, the proposition may well seem a bold stroke. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
Let’s say for instance you were witness to a couple at a club who were dancing, making out all night long, all over each other, and at some point they disappeared, left to go somewhere more seclusive. From Wordnik.com. [My rape story] Reference
The more conservative idea was that man should be meditative and seclusive, that he should withdraw himself altogether from the pleasures of this world and work out his salvation with his eye "single to the honor and glory of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Negro Church] Reference
I wish she were not so seclusive. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of the Star A Novel] Reference
Efficient, but unusually taciturn and seclusive. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Association in Insanity] Reference
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