hermit-like

Most just knew him as the hermit-like guy with a briefcase and a vanity plate that read “KAPEESH,” a quirk that led some to refer to him as “mafia dude.”

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as a nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend of Western and Ethiopian influences, died March 26 at her convent in Jerusalem.

She also inspired a 2011 HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as a hermit-like reporter named Tilda Watski.

Kya’s hermit-like existence — she attends school for one day, doesn’t learn to read until Tate teaches her and has no radio or television — feels a bit like an alibi for the film’s detachment from history.

China’s growing confidence, however, means it won’t ever go back to being a passive player in international affairs, analysts say, and Xi’s recent hermit-like behavior can be explained as a tactical retreat as he prioritizes eliminating the coronavirus and securing his extended rule.