Sentence examples for a self-contained activity from inspiring English sources

Usually, I like a puzzle to be a self-contained activity.

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.

She forces herself to explode into spurts of anguished howls, as if mourning were a scheduled, self-contained activity like an exercise session.

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.

The home was a self-contained community, containing residences, a school, tailor shop, and a chapel.

The first is that every human activity, serious or playful, eventually ramifies into a world of its own, a self-contained cosmos of enormous complexity.

So we had a self-contained studio.

"We're a self-contained, developing economy.

Blackstar is a self-contained world.