Sentence examples for are we imprisoned from inspiring English sources

How far are we imprisoned by modish ideas of "identity" even to ask it?

Are we imprisoned by our names?

She says, "As often as we are imprisoned inside ourselves, so often are we actually living in exile outside ourselves...one of the basic conditions of contemporary life is the unfulfilled longing of the self for itself".

That's how life is; we're all imprisoned by something.

But it is we who become imprisoned inside our armor and it is we who ultimately will seek to be liberated from it.

Not to be outdone, we imprison more people than any other nation ever has – more than China, more than the Soviet Union at the height of the gulags.

The cages, from vast to bird-sized, create an optical illusion; from certain angles it seems that we are imprisoned and the birds are free.

Until that moment we are imprisoned in a logic that is entirely sound, but for the fact that it's erected on a false premise.

When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the "trance of unworthiness".

The exhibition title, "D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings," hints at the big meaning: we are imprisoned by an all-pervasive Cartesian grid, a vast, technological web wherein our most soulfully expressive gestures are like the struggles of captured flies.

"We are imprisoned for our political convictions," Ms. Alyokhina said.