| Their apartness that so dislocated the upper, outer, surface-life was only apparent after all. |
| Somehow the cool Russian colorings of her voice brought out the apartness of the character, a young woman in a loveless marriage in a foreign land. |
| Marriages fall apart, but apartness seems a permanent part of the married condition anyway. |
| He told himself this calmly, with an odd sense of apartness. |
| Seeing the title Coming Apart, one might think he is again alluding to black-white difference, which is after all the great apartness in American history. |
| But to us dissidents that gumboil was a symbol of his apartness from the pack. |
