Sentence examples for a circumscribed existence from inspiring English sources

Yet they also know that there's something inglorious about such a circumscribed existence.

She now lives a circumscribed existence in New York City and rarely sees her children.

To stay in the game, we have a circumscribed existence with a narrow set of options.

Chess is a circumscribed world filled with mighty egos.

The details of his life that have emerged so far suggest a lonely, loveless and circumscribed existence: no wife, no close friends, a cheap apartment.

Andrew is almost at home in his circumscribed existence, though he admits, "I guess it's not all that surprising that I would be confused about sex".

He is 75 and more or less resigned to his circumscribed existence, when Andrea unexpectedly resurfaces in his life, reawakening memories of their failed marriage and their loss of Sierra, who became a martyr to the Earth Forever! movement.

His subjects were family, friends and his immediate surroundings in Pennsylvania and in Maine, where he spent much of his later life — reflections of the circumscribed existence he chose for himself.

Like Celebration, Pinter's penultimate sketch, Press Conference (2002), "invokes both torture and the fragile, circumscribed existence of dissent".

Under Loretta Greco's direction, with Adriana Sevan and Daphne Rubin-Vega in the title roles, "Sisters" fitfully evokes a poetic appreciation of the visions of phantom lives bred in circumscribed existences, like the fantasies of the prisoners in Manuel Puig's novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman".

The world of Acorn Lake in the 60's is a circumscribed one.