Despite my temporary status as a hermit,

I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, so he kind of wishes he were a great white shark.

Then why do you suppose she insists on acting like a hermit?

No, later. I'll tell you about a hermit, an intellectual, of course.

I'll stop being a hermit... when something happens to make me forget all those things.

it's wrong to stay down here... year after year, brooding, not seeing anyone... living the life of a hermit.

This fellow lives like a hermit. You must remember that bad business out there about 1 0 years ago.

If I were in this condition at any point before a few cosmological instants ago, I would be as isolated as a hermit.

Some ask what value Kim s hermit kingdom provides that prevents China from acting decisively others wonder to what extent Chinese leaders domestic concerns continue to inhibit their willingness to switch course on North Korea.

TOKYO Brinkmanship seems to be congenital in North Korea. Under the late Kim Jong il s pudgy young successor his third son, Kim Jong un, dubbed the Young General threats and mendacity still mark the Hermit Kingdom s diplomacy.

But it is also not the hermit state of the 1950s, having moved significantly toward a market economy in recent years. Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four fifths of an average North Korean s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.