Or for some, a way of avoiding life.

Lincoln, however, was more like his mother, Virginia, who did her best to avoid public life.

Always a private person at the best of times, Hughes increasingly avoided public life.

She liked simplicity and preferred to dress modestly, avoiding public life.

You'll take care of everybody in Ireland to avoid living life for yourself.

Following the defeat, Shea avoided public life for a time, but by 1873 was ready to run again.

She says she will do everything she can to avoid life in a camp.

Fantasy is an obsession that serves in some way to avoid life.

From then he appears to have avoided public life.

We do not have to avoid life, or maturity.