Sentence examples for little self-contained from inspiring English sources

Still, it came close to being a little self-contained and precious.

"We would create a little self-contained community," said Kurt Wittek, managing director of Blackrock Realty L.L.C. of Stamford.

This is largely a little self-contained corner of the economy oriented around the particular timing of the school year.

In some ways, she says, Guys and Dolls is Sarah's show: "She goes from this little self-contained missionary woman to this crazy drunk lady enjoying life and embracing love.

"If they're not Mormon they probably like entering this little self-contained universe with thorough storytelling," she says.

You could still watch a network show with TiVo and fast forward through the commercials, but the structure of telling the story... (it's) these little self-contained acts, and not 'What's the journey of this episode?' I don't want to give up on network (television) creatively.

If we build small, self-contained structures, ones that do as little harm as possible to the environment, we can perhaps weather the collapse.

What you do see in many of these photographs, though, are women who look a little more serious-minded and less obligingly smiling than women are often pictured as being -- a little more self-contained and caught up in what they are doing.

A little more self-contained, a lot more self-conscious, and maybe even a bit serious.

Perhaps family life was a little too self-contained and intense.

It would be nice to have a little more self-contained explanation about some of the methods employed, such as Clu-HMC-Ens.