Sentence examples for became imprisoned from inspiring English sources

Wherever a dualistic view of human nature has been held, it has been necessary to explain how ethereal souls first became imprisoned in physical bodies.

When they opened the trunk to release the creatures the frogs popped out but the turtle, hiding, became imprisoned in the bottom of the fender well.

The most likely explanation for his block wasn't any sense of guilt but that he was a depressive by nature and became imprisoned by his own reputation — by the mythology that had grown up around him.

The most likely explanation for his block wasn't any sense of guilt but that he was a depressive by nature and became imprisoned by his own reputation by the mythology that had grown up around him.

Many never left the small towns they grew up in, and as the world changed around them, they became imprisoned by geography.

There are few rhetorical flourishes in her work, except for a slight uptick in levels of disorientation in her novella "McGlue," in which a sailor from the 19th century languishes in the brig of ship, drinking himself into oblivion while trying to remember how he became imprisoned for killing a friend during a previous oblivion.

If the first two lines are startling:  I have become imprisoned, O beloved, by the mole on your lip!

"Big, public narrative art forms - opera, musicals, theatre - have become imprisoned by their own increasingly complicated stage machinery," she says.

For another, successful people often become imprisoned by their success, in their desire to keep social approval and provide for their families.

In one memorable exchange in which Benn had accused Blair of ignoring the lessons of history, Blair replied: "Of course we should learn from our history, but we should not become imprisoned by it".

From this point forward, "Judith Shakespeare" becomes another polemical fiction who, like Woolf, had to stay at home, watch her brother go off to school, and become imprisoned in domesticity: "She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was.