Sentence examples for circumscribed world from inspiring English sources

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

With its sole actor and circumscribed world, Fully Committed seems an odd choice for Broadway.

For four generations, these towns have been the twin hemispheres of my family's happily circumscribed world.

At 16, April is unconsciously and uncertainly seeking freedom from the narrowly circumscribed world of a Maryland truck stop.

To be a White House adviser, as the late Mr. Schlesinger reminds us, is to occupy a peculiarly circumscribed world.

If God and fun kept company onscreen, it was in the carefully circumscribed world of black film.

Although you can extrapolate from the show a portrait of a mind withdrawing into a strictly circumscribed fantasy world to banish the pain or frustration of the real one, Rambo Nut is more conceit than character.

In her personal documentary film, "Divan," Pearl Gluck, a bright, spunky rebel with multiple causes, has made what may be the first movie to evoke in equal measure the attraction of the highly circumscribed, ritualized world of Hasidic Judaisim and the equally compelling reasons she abandoned it.

Ramsey Tesdell, 27, who was leading the discussion, said that social media allowed young women in the village to bypass the men — fathers, brothers, husbands — who circumscribed their worlds and their ability to communicate.

The setting is a kind of time capsule that circumscribes the world of the play and holds within it the raw materials from which future lives are forged.

Fred and his hooligan pals are vaguely acquainted with Len from their school days, and the network of thinly forged connections circumscribes the world of the play and slowly tightens around the characters like a noose.