Sentence examples for as a self-contained entity from inspiring English sources

Norbert Elias, author of "The Civilizing Process," used the term homo clausus, the conventional sociological image of the individual as a self-contained entity.

He sensibly concludes that examining Oswald as a "self-contained entity with fears and inclinations and a tortuous history" is far more profitable than indulging in the baroque conspiracy theories favored by the grassy knoll crowd.

I realized that it is all too easy to think of the body as a self-contained entity, needing only occasional passages of food in and waste out to maintain its normal function.

Yet the real beauty of this initiative is that each aspect of it – print, video podcast, website commentary on Craig David's hilariously aspirational domestic circumstances – works equally well as a self-contained entity, and as a bridge up or down to the next level.

We wander around the outdoor zones and it's not just a checkerboard blanketing of spawns evenly throughout the space, it's clear roads and thoroughfares and, oh hey, there's a camp here with interesting things going on, and a rare or a quest, or objectives to complete, and it tells a little bit of a story as a self-contained entity.

Rather than a self-contained entity secure behind its rows of classical columns, the museum now exercises centrifugal force.

This augmented video is a self-contained entity integrating values of perceptible and non-perceptible attributes of the same real entity.

The whole thing is a self-contained entity with music and listening device in one you simply plug your headphones into a headphone jack built into the CD case, flip the on/off switch and behold as the simple circuit sparks into action.

The center is designed to operate as a fully self-contained entity -- providing up to 5,000 Kibera residents a day with the essentials -- water, flushing toilets, showers and laundry services.

Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London.

In their so-called quantum cosmology, Dr. Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and author, and his collaborators envision the universe as a kind of self-contained entity, a crystalline melt of all possibilities existing in "imaginary time".