But these spaces, despite their capacities, are repeatedly portrayed as lonely and alienating.
Besides being ambitious, Farouk1986 also described himself as lonely.
Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeeze one more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.
While some refer to it as a lonely planet, we prefer to think of it as unique.
As a lonely child in Brooklyn, Dr Pepperberg owned pet birds from the age of four, and daydreamed about being able to understand animals' thoughts.
And what's more, teens who described themselves as feeling lonely were also more likely to believe that fame would have a positive impact on their lives.
"Lost in Translation, " a 2003 movie starring Bill Murray as a fading actor and Scarlett Johansson as a lonely young American newlywed whose husband is busy working, uses the Park Hyatt Tokyo to tremendous effect.
It struck me as a lonely odyssey, but Mr. Boss says he has plenty of support, starting with Phil Schrader, editor and publisher of the Sovereign, a small circulation monthly specializing in news about the surveillance state and UFOs.
Police probing Finland's first known school shooting said Thursday that a picture was emerging of the gunman as a lonely, antisocial 18-year-old who acted alone and left a suicide note saying good-bye to his family, but that his motive was unclear.
His desire to make a difference has seen him working with charities such as Oxfam and SOS, while in 2009 he spoke at the United Nations' Summit on Climate Change in New York -- a far cry from his early days as a lonely child in Benin.
People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh.
Before wireless entered our lives, the desktops were in separate rooms, lonely as abandoned shrines.
Mr Arafat's battered headquarters was described by a BBC correspondent at the scene, Barbara Plett, as resembling a lonely island in a sea of rubble.
For instance, outfits that act as matchmakers for lonely hearts (dating clubs, singles bars, and so on) often levy higher charges on men than on women.
"Swimmers described these games as the 'Lonely Olympics' and the 'Individual Olympics', " the report said, adding that the lack of cohesion meant that poor behaviour went unchecked.
Those who would cling to outdated stereotypes of transpeople as sad, lonely, misguided, freakish and broken see more and more examples of people who bloom when they find the strength, and the opportunity, to become authentic.
For most school children, being able to recite a poem from memory is a short cut to wandering lonely as a cloud during lunch times and having your gym kit chucked on top of the bus shelter.
While she was married to Richard Burton, whom she famously met on the set of Cleopatra while still married to crooner Eddie Fisher (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for her making them the Jen-Brangelina of their day), Taylor bought a parcel of land in what as then a lonely undeveloped stretch of beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
And that's how it plays out, as Mann drinks a lonely Guinness while it's still light out and awkwardly hooks up with a male acquaintance when it's not.
Meanwhile, Esperance striker Ali Zitouni, who must have felt very lonely playing as the sole striker against a four-man Enyimba defence, also had a great chance to give his side the lead in the 10th minute during a rare foray upfield.
The members of the group, which includes an urbane young doctor, a vain and verbose prosecutor, a Gogol-esque clerk with a laptop computer, and a punctilious military officer standing guard, grow increasingly irritable as they slog through lonely and uninviting terrain.
Wilson argued the Web has a unique power to inspire users -- he cited his own past as an awkward, lonely teen-ager who was looking to connect with like-minded people -- by helping them make sense of things and find their place in the world.
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She was described by detectives as "a pretty lonely, insecure wee girl on that journey".
Dog owners, by contrast, are given detailed instructions on ensuring their pets do not become lonely or isolated as "dogs are a social species and need the company of people, dogs or other animals".
It dotes on its lonely-guy heroes as they dote on themselves.
In its opening moments, The Everybodyfields' "Lonely Anywhere" sounds as sweetly unassuming as ballads get: As a gently plucked acoustic guitar sets the scene, Jill Andrews slowly and tentatively offers a sweet-sounding apology.
Rival travel writer Mike Parker who has settled in Aberystwyth, also leapt to the defence of the mid Wales town which the Lonely Planet guide labels as "rather stuffy and old fashioned - a wannabe seaside resort".
At least, this is what happens to a pulsar that is the remains of a lonely, companionless star such as the sun.
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