Sentence examples for circumscribed space from inspiring English sources

What is striking about his major works is how little sense of forward motion they convey; on the contrary, they describe how Bouvier experiences a carefully circumscribed space, often in the form of an island (Sri Lanka, Japan, the Aran Islands).

Like many films of the Occupation, "The Damned" is set in a strictly circumscribed space — the gossipy, ingrown village of Henri Georges Clouzot's film "Le Corbeau" ("The Raven"), the isolated mountain inn of Jean Grémillon's "Lumière d'Été" (both 1943) — populated by a cross-section of representative social types.

The Karzai government, hobbled by incapacity and corruption, operates within an increasingly circumscribed space.

You are working with rhythm in a very circumscribed space and with subtext.

She continued to wander, tentative but un-dithery within a circumscribed space, to Hawaiian slack-key guitar music, her hands opening out and closing in delicately beautiful half-gestures.

The poetics of circumscribed space«.

Stranger on a Train is full of such cosily circumscribed spaces: a tiny sleeping compartment, a borrowed trailer, a glassed-in smoking section.

As with Hilgard's time-limitations, ludic reading is circumscribed by space and time -- it is reserved for a particular place, like a favorite chair, and a favored time, such as right before sleep.

Terminal City itself, of course, is narrowly circumscribed in space, and we should give up any notion that the existing terminals will be able to sit, surrounded by space, like discrete sculptural objects.

He got on Giehler's bike and started riding in circles, circumscribing the space with big Butch Cassidy swoops.

Those rules are created by someone - a game designer - and circumscribe a space of possibility and meaning for the player to explore.