Aaron's life is circumscribed by work, prayer and family, and he takes his duties in all three areas seriously.
Choosing the "right road" from the outset, instead of stumbling upon it haphazardly, is the Oulipian way: once the Apollonian structure has been circumscribed, Dionysus can work his magic.
Despite her elevation, she continued to meet with hostility from a number of priests and bishops, and the sisters' work was circumscribed in certain cities.
Not all of its repertory, as the name would suggest, comes from the "territory" bands that worked in circumscribed areas of the Southwest and Midwest.
I did that because I didn't want to have it so fresh in my mind that it might circumscribe the imaginative work at hand.
She never married, perhaps because her social life was circumscribed by the mountains of work she habitually brought home.
After the intermission, Mr. Gosling played the piano and a bank of timpani in Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Schlagrio" (1952), a work of interestingly circumscribed melodies and a good measure of energizing thunder.
Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.
GPs also felt that the path that patients followed to surgery circumscribed their role in preoperative work-up; once referred to the urologist for definitive diagnosis of localised prostate cancer, patients often did not re-present to the GP until after radical prostatectomy.
A small but growing number do work, albeit in carefully circumscribed trades and spaces.
