(1) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(2) Doctor Sleep , his 56th novel, revisits Danny in adulthood, when he has become an alcoholic drifter haunted by the memory of his raging father.
(3) With the coming of steam drifters in 1900 trawling for white fish became easier and they substituted for the herring and the taste for herring has been lost.
(4) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(5) AP Singh, representing 19-year-old Sharma, reminded the court of his client's youth and the effect of alcohol, while Thakur's lawyer argued that the 26-year-old drifter had a young son and an aged mother.
(6) Some, like a young white Californian who gave his name only as Sam, are drifters with no clear-cut agenda.
(7) Anticipation is high, therefore, for this sequel to the horror classic, in which Danny, the young boy whose telepathic gift stirred up the ghosts of the Overlook hotel, has grown up to be a troubled drifter using what is left of his "shining" power to bring comfort to the dying in a New Hampshire nursing home.
(8) Among them was Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time, Hyper Light Drifter, Might No 9 from Comcept, Fenic Rage, Aztez and Threes, which is just about the only game on this whole article that my wife would recognise.
(9) They had been joined by a fruit seller and a part-time gym assistant, a former colleague and the juvenile, who was an illiterate drifter, on a "joy ride" after hours of heavy drinking on the evening of the assault.
(10) He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter.
(11) In The Homesman , Tommy Lee Jones’s grizzled drifter reflects that folk are happy to yak about death and taxes, “but when it comes to crazy, they just hush up”.
(12) The 59-year-old “drifter” was named as John Russel Houser .
(13) Houser, 59, was described by police as a “drifter”.
(14) Guthrie and Seeger would come to represent different poles of the same world: one a self-mythologising drifter with an outsider's wild charisma, the other a steadfast, reassuring figure amid turbulent times.
(15) Usually, a flammable liquid was poured and ignited by a drifter who was a brief acquaintance and earlier involved in an argument with the victim.
(16) In our work ‘Drifter’ we performed on the rooftops of the vertical city.
(17) The shooter, described as a “drifter” with a history of mental illness, killed Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, and injured nine others.
(18) The descriptive names of the categories, together with their proportionate sizes and the mean annual consultation rates within the categories were: (1) 'Healthy and competent' (16%; 1.03); (2) 'Contented returners' (12%; 3.28); (3) 'Information seekers' (8%; 4.08); (4) 'Support seekers' (15%; 4.62); (5) 'Drifters' (21%; 2.21) and (6) 'Those hard to convince' (6%; 3.59).
(19) While the details are not yet known of when, where and how Houser, a drifter from Alabama, purchased his weapons, law enforcement said Friday he was denied a concealed-carry permit in 2006 due to a domestic violence report and arson arrest.
(20) The Drifters, or at least the latest reincarnation of a group that has had more parts than Trigger’s broom , provided the half-time entertainment at Goodison Park.
Loner
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(3) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
(4) This study focuses on drug use, delinquency and lifestyle correlates of LONERS and SOCIALS.
(5) "If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
(6) "One of the big problems with being a loner is that one does not get helpful reality checks from people who can challenge disordered thinking," Mr Depue wrote.
(7) He has a reputation for being something of a loner – often choosing to eat lunch alone in the canteen – and one former colleague described him as "a space cadet, he finds it difficult to emphathise with people not as bright or focused as him".
(8) He says that he's a loner, but constantly tells affectionate anecdotes about his mates.
(9) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
(10) Colin Stagg , a classic "loner", was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, not least because he seemed like such a likely customer.
(11) The portrait of addiction is often one of tragedy – young lives cut short, or loners cut off from family and friends.
(12) But detectives admit they still do not know how “true loner” Mair, who had no social network, got hold of it.
(13) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
(14) The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct.
(15) As a child she was a shy, melancholic loner riddled with very early-onset teenage angst.
(16) He is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey but who knew more hockey stats than anyone else; who became an economist while his two brothers became accountants because, as he said, he did not have the personality to be an accountant.
(17) Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post " Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida ", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" – much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa – have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners.
(18) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(19) Loners with pistols, strange men creeping into the royal bedroom at two in the morning: such events can be put down to obsessive and deranged personalities.
(20) 's sample of drug abusers, were more likely to be categorized as "loners," "rebels," and "pessimists" than was the general population sample.