People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh.

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The BBC's Andrew Harding, at the scene, said the defendant cut a lonely figure, holding his head forward and breathing heavily through tears.

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For all the riches in the world, Max cuts a lonely -- if elegant -- figure in this former baronial hall.

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