Whereas, when you circumscribe me by what you think you already know, we may both leave the conversation a little impoverished by the lost opportunity to truly meet in the middle.
"If you say you have to step down from your charitable activities and you've got to circumscribe whatever else you do in life, I think you would have a Conflicts of Interest Board composed of the people you don't want — not public-spirited people — and I think it would make for a very cloistered board".
The game is at its best when you are circumscribed in your actions -- when, for example, you are prohibited from killing anyone or when you must kill someone before he has a chance to press an alarm.
Performance art is also often circumscribed by time — if you don't get there at a certain appointed hour, you may miss it.
There you are, on the beach, just checking in with the news of the world as you've circumscribed it.
By and large, membership in 19th-century street gangs was circumscribed by one's ethnic background; if you were Irish, you would not be welcome in a nativist gang, and if you were black, you would be ill advised to seek membership in an Italian gang.
If not, you deserved a bland existence circumscribed by societal expectation.
Unlike the sprawling media empires and overfunded Web start-ups of a decade ago, their carefully circumscribed conference will do just fine, thank you.
We are on different sides now... you see how much I belong here and not to you.' As a mother, she is circumscribed by the 'yawning, cyclic, inexhaustible need' for the son and daughter who were taken from her.
Unless all of the users are using it — or at least, the sub-group of users you want to interact with — then its usefulness is circumscribed.
