She's implicating herself there, and insulating herself too.
Others suggest that in the case of the Middle East, where Mr. Mitchell has an influential voice in making policy, she was insulating herself from potential failure.
Why can't I do that?" Li doesn't conceal her distaste for the music industry and she has worked hard to insulate herself from it.
As if to insulate herself from such criticism (and, presumably, remind us of her seriousness and sincerity), Reich awkwardly throws in Auschwitz factoids.
She doesn't insulate herself with music or newspapers, but prefers conversation, and when Mr. Alvarado arrived at his stop, she wished him a good day at his job, as he wished her the same.
One of our patients had a terrible history, a rape history, and our psychologist felt that by putting on weight she was somehow insulating herself from the interest of men".
In her newest role in "The Book of Grace," from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks ("Topdog/Underdog"), Ms. Marvel plays a wife in denial, grasping for signs of hope as she insulates herself from a punishing marriage to an older, menacing man.
Fully aware of that, she positions us there too, inside Marianne's frantic inner monologue around the loss of her beautiful boy, the panic and denial, the closing-off against other people's feelings – anything to insulate herself from the knowledge she has already admitted into her life.
