JERUSALEM — Like a figure in a medieval drama, the monk Irenaeus I has been cloistered for the last three years in a third-floor apartment in the compound of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate high above a narrow, bustling alleyway of Jerusalem's Old City, unwilling or unable to leave.
Part of the Mitsubishi empire famed for its WWII aircraft, the automaker is cloistered from the real world of competition.
After being cloistered in Washington for a month haggling with Congressional leaders, Mr. Obama will embark on a bus tour of the Midwest the week of Aug. 15 — a chance to show his commitment to reviving the economy in a region of important electoral battlegrounds, and to turn the page from the tangled, often toxic, debate in the capital.
The stunning Guillaume de Machaut medieval codex known as the Ferrell-Vogüé has been cloistered in private ownership for nearly all of its long life.
They were derided for being "cloistered in colleges", and as men who had "never earned a dollar by the sweat of their brow .But Mr Irwin's accessible analysis makes quite clear that the act cannot be said to have caused the Great Depression.
For most former manufacturing titans, the transition into the services business has rarely gone smoothly, especially when the service providers are engineers who have been cloistered in research labs for years.
As for today's concert dance, it, too, is cloistered, to the extent that it is abstract.
Famed for its WWII aircraft, much of the Mitsubishi empire is cloistered in many ways from the real world of competition.
They were cloistered in a hermetic hotel's press room, which North Korean government chaperones would not let them leave for more than three hours.
But after being cloistered and veiled for most of her life, she said, she felt free for the first time and wanted to express her independence.
In much the same way, the Institute is cloistered.
