Sentence examples for but circumscribed from inspiring English sources
Egan's moving but circumscribed first novel, The Invisible Circus, in no way prepared readers for the millennial ambitions of her second — a comic, richly imagined, and stunningly written exploration of the American obsession with self-invention.
These ideological and economic discourses drove Australian early childhood policy for many years (Bown, Sumsion, & Press, 2010) with the resulting policy environment consisting of "… cannabalised products of multiple (but circumscribed) influences and agendas" (Ball, 2006, p. 45).
The Torah permits this but circumscribes what would otherwise be a rape.
But however circumscribed their lives, these children have more safety and stability than the siblings living in a rice-sack tent.
"Peter Brown is a giant, but it's still pretty remarkable for an 800-page, $40 book on a fascinating but fairly circumscribed topic" to sell so well, Rob Tempio, Mr. Brown's editor, said in an e-mail, adding, "Brown is truly a magnificent writer, but I may be biased".
But traditionally, liberal conceptions of justice have viewed democratic mechanisms of collective choice as essential but highly circumscribed by the constitutional provisions that principles of justice support.
The effect of the fragmentation of taxa is the creation of numerous smaller, but morphologically well-defined genera, whereas integration produces fewer taxa, well-established genetically, but poorly circumscribed morphologically.
In November the regime held a general election, admittedly heavily circumscribed but the first in two decades.
"I don't want to call it miniature, but it's circumscribed".
Not, it turns out, in the case of Hassam, a technical virtuoso but an oddly circumscribed artist.
