1.   American individualism was diverted into the private realm of consumerism in the postwar world, and themes linking art and social renewal declined.

2.   And, as ever, the issue ultimately remains to be negotiated in the private realm occupied by dying patients, their families and doctors and nurses.

3.   Coward, a gay man in a country where homosexuality was legally punishable, knew all about private realms of shared sensuality.

4.   Had the state relegated our garbage to the private realm, as a form of political control?

5.   Newly powerful microscopes and X-rays harnessed light to expose private realms within the body.

6.   So the transgressions of the private realm ascribed to the Starr report are part of a larger cultural trauma.

7.   The next one will be easier if we start thinking now about legislating against excessive invasion of the private realm.