Sentence examples for in her confining from inspiring English sources

But at a recital in her confining home town, Camden, Maine, she impressed a rich and well-connected bluestocking — Caroline Dow, the dean of the Y.W.C.A. Training School in New York, who rescued her.

Like all of her output, American Honey is defiantly experimental: shot in her confining ratio of choice, 4 3, it uses its 152 minutes to immerse you in the whirlwind life of Star (newcomer Sasha Lane), a teenage girl who runs away from a troubled home to join a traveling sales crew driving across the American midwest.

Wang has drawn the ire of the government many times for his defence of villagers against corrupt local officials, Falun Gong practitioners and fellow rights activists such as Ni Yulan whose treatment in police custody in 2010 left her confined to a wheelchair.

Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of England.

Bemoaning her confined existence in a palace filled with treacherous eunuchs and concubines, she bewitches the tutor.

While Charlotte tries to reposition herself in New York, her namesake, the plain and unnervingly direct teen-age daughter of her best friend in high school, struggles to slip the snares of her confining life in Rockford; ostracized by her peers, she switches schools and initiates an affair with a secretive stranger.

Widows are restricted in their social mobility, confining her to her household.

Paula!" in a variety of accents suggests interest in her is not confined to these islands.

The woman in the title of Oscar A. Colón's "Becoming Bernarda" is of course the matron of "The House of Bernarda Alba," who locked her crazed mother away in the dark, confined her five daughters to the shuttered rooms of her home and finally drove one of them to suicide.

After the Bush campaign decreed there would be no searing swipes at Democrats, Mrs. Bush, in describing her husband, confined herself to an implict comparison with Bill Clinton and Al Gore, whom the campaign often portrays as obsessed by bald political calculations.

He threatens her, tries to confine her in the family's apartment and arranges to have Cem sent back to Turkey.