Sentence examples for cloistral from inspiring English sources

But it is hard to regard William Faulkner in quite the same way after you read about "locking her forever in that cloistral dream from which that sex who alone must waken her must by the same token be the one most powerless to deliver her".

Yet mockery was stilled, for a minute, by the haunted eyes of the winner, the Russian Valeriy Borchin, as he stood on the podium later, his gauntness telling of the mortification that had led him to this point; he clutched his medal and his bunch of flowers as if emerging from a cloistral seminary into the light.

Besides, as a gallery displaying modern and contemporary work, the traditional requirements for showing easel painting and the plastic arts do not apply – this is a post-industrial space for post-industrial, multimedia art: performance and video installation do not, of necessity, require cloistral and uniformly lit environments.

As recently as the middle twentieth century, private universities were institutions with little direct social role, built on cloistral research and devoted to patrician cultural inheritance.

The upshot is that "Phantom Thread," though expert and engrossing, is also cloistral and sickly, and I found myself fighting for fresh air.