Usually, I like a puzzle to be a self-contained activity.
She forces herself to explode into spurts of anguished howls, as if mourning were a scheduled, self-contained activity like an exercise session.
We show that knowledge production is to a decreasing extent a self-contained activity in Sweden, and that through scientific co-authorships firms, primarily foreign firms, are becoming important players in Swedish industrial scientific research.
Whereas mountaineering or deep-sea diving are self-contained activities that last a certain length of time with - if all goes well - a return to a "status quo ante" when it is over, facing (say) grief or disappointment is quite different.
Alex Ross has written how minimalism, in contrast to the history of classical composition as "a self-contained linguistic activity", was "open-ended, potentially limitless.
Instead of Berkeley Rep staff members traveling to work with artists on commissioned works, Berkeley will become a self-contained hub of activity with housing, rehearsal spaces, even costuming on site.
Along with a New York group that included Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollock, Shadbolt saw tribal art as "timeless and instinctive, on the level of spontaneous animal activity, self-contained, unreflective, private, without dates and signatures, without origins or consequences except in the emotions" (7 ).
More often, though, grousing simply feeds on itself, sometimes devolving into elaborate self-contained gatherings in which the central activity is bad-mouthing and mimicking the boss, said Dr. Morrill of the University of California.
For many families, that means driving off in campers and setting up shop, for a week or longer, at campsites that often offer enough activities to be self-contained family camps.
A negotiated fixed amount in lieu of indirect (F&A) costs may be appropriate for self-contained, off-campus, or primarily subcontracted activities where the benefits derived from an institution's indirect (F&A) services cannot be readily determined.
As they moved outward, they created communities that were virtually self-contained enclaves of commercial, social, and cultural activity.
