Sentence examples for a constricted world from inspiring English sources

Go north of 96th Street and you enter a constricted world laden with poverty.

A great basketball player, almost by definition, is someone who has grown up in a constricted world, not for lack of vision or ambition but for lack of money; his environment has been limited to home; gym, and playground, and it has forced upon him, as a developing basketball player, the discipline of having nothing else to do.

In that context I live in a constricted world than before and it's OK.

His mother, who has aged so much she is barely recognisable, and sister Euphemia (a significant name) are deeply troubled, and, most shockingly of all within their constricted world, Euphemia is refused tickets for the local ball.

3," and the hierarchy of their constricted world is, apparently, all they have.

The once constricted world of Western early music has opened to new — O.K., old — and exotic vistas in recent years as it explores the fertile ground it shares with Eastern, especially Middle Eastern, performance styles.

An even darker and more constricted world than Vladimir and Estragon's, in Endgame Weaving's Hamm sits front and centre – an ailing tyrant – reminiscent of an ancient world Eastern potentate with toque and gaff for crown and sceptre, clinging to his vanity and worth as the world around him declines.

A cast of petrol pump attendants, recovering addicts, drug dealers and bouncers weaves around this constricted world from night club to fast-foodery, from river bank to concrete picnic area, the city far enough away that it might well as be on the moon.

Take it from this former Type-A constricted control freak.

Both orthodoxies take a constricted, mechanistic view of the situation.

Heck, living with kids in a constricted, constructed household is not easy.