Sentence examples for circumscribed view from inspiring English sources

Instead, they were given only a circumscribed view of learning's enormous riches that purposely lay beyond their grasp.

U.S. Embassy-Baghdad again took an extremely circumscribed view of how many persons under COM [Chief of Mission] authority are involved in the "reconstruction effort".

The lesson is not that tests are bad or useless, but rather that test score data offer only a circumscribed view of education.

But the drones proved to be too expensive and hard to fly, and the cameras mounted on the drones gave too tightly circumscribed a view of the waters below.

The idea that God would be so circumscribed by our paltry view of morals that he has to be the god of love is to me astonishing, futile and idiotic".

But Prochnik suspects that James, who had come under the sway of Laura Piper, a psychic who communicated with the dead, found Freud's (and Hall's) views too circumscribed.

They also realize that their backgrounds inform and play into some of their most potent liabilities: in Mr. Gore's case, that his life and world view are utterly circumscribed by politics; in Mr. Bush's case, that his late-blooming political prominence is the result of his father's connections, not his own talents and toilings.

The view is further circumscribed by highlighting the most charismatic male leaders, political actors, and legislative achievements.

Mr Weidmann's views are similarly circumscribed by the tenets of German economic thinking: a distrust of policy discretion; an emphasis on the long term; a deep-seated fear of inflation; and an obsession with moral hazard.

And Shoptaw's use of the video camera as an opportunity for intimate confessional is a clever substitute for Eliot's narrative technique of describing the inner life of her characters, and showing the ways in which their understanding of themselves and others is circumscribed by their restricted points of view.

His is a worldly view, but of a curiously circumscribed world.