As staged by Ms. Renfield, the play has an appealing directness, particularly in the moments dramatizing Roy's sullen withdrawal.

"For some, it takes the form of aggressive defiance, and for others, sullen withdrawal."

Even the architecture of airliners seems designed to encourage sullen withdrawal.

Siona trudged beside him in sullen withdrawal, her attention frequently on the broad muscular back of Nayla, who strode along a few paces ahead of the troop.

He found himself combatting Brew's sullen withdrawal, Nat's frantic insistence, and a core of hot anger in his own wife.

Behind his natural reticence she sensed his will to bring her out on her shell, ana the human discomfort she caused him through her sullen withdrawal.

It was the sullen withdrawal of an unsatisfied lover; she could see the blood-lust engorging his half-lidded eyes.

Lin was looking amused-at least an improvement, Pat thought, over his sullen withdrawal of before.

He did not want to go back upstairs and shut himself up with Mat's sullen withdrawal.

Simon lapsed into sullen withdrawal and would speak only in monosyllabic grunts for the next seven hours.