Sentence examples for confinement and escape from inspiring English sources

With these devices, Egan constructs a prism that refracts themes of power, knowledge, confinement and escape through the multiple levels of her story.

Mr. Rohde's methodical reconstruction of his confinement and escape alternates with Ms. Mulvihill's scrupulous and often surreal account of juggling her effort to free Mr. Rohde and her work as the photography director at Cosmopolitan magazine.

In ruminative asides, she wishes to impress us with her life's "antinomies": privacy and exposure; solitude and plurality; confinement and escape; propriety and transgression — the conflict between the vestal and the bawd who shape her character.

A dress, he proved, can be a talisman of sex and death; a paradox of confinement and escape; a hybrid of nature and artifice; or the sheath for the body of a mutant species.

Emma Donoghue will probably always be best known for her 2010 bestseller Room, a child's-eye view of confinement and escape prompted by the horrific Josef Fritzl case in Austria, which she adapted for the screen last year.

But every escape contains its own confinement, and the escape from obscurity to a global reputation has brought unwanted attention and preoccupying commitments to the business of bookselling.

On one hand I was simply being polite, but I was also grateful for the chance to stand up and escape my confinement.

Stuck in a crowded house for three straight weeks, Mohammed and his friends ventured outside one afternoon, eager to play in a nearby park and escape the confinement and the fear.

Even if the new virus is not highly lethal, board members say that might change should the virus escape confinement and recombine with other viruses to become both highly lethal and easily transmissible.

They realise that this was a trap arranged by Kovarian, as the Silence begin to escape confinement and overload the eyedrives, killing their users.

When the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng escaped confinement and beatings to find temporary refuge in the United States Embassy in Beijing, he thrust a huge unanticipated problem into talks between American and Chinese officials.