University students or recent graduates, they were raised in a world circumscribed by narrow boundaries drawn hard by politics and geography.
Behind the celebration of Mr. Rohmer's perfection lies an implied accusation of complacency: even approving critics have at times grumbled that the world he portrays on the screen is too narrow, its emotions too circumscribed, its ironies too schematic, to sustain our curiosity or feed our hunger for vicarious experience.
Throughout the novel, Shanghai, with its distinct and mysterious longtang — neighborhoods circumscribed by narrow alleys — is as powerful a presence as its citizens and provides the occasion for the most poetic writing, as in this description of young girls' bedrooms, "where anything can happen, where even melancholy is noisy and clamorous.
Delegates' minds were, he said, "circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country in all matters of government" ([Au]: 5).
Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.
A system is domain specific to the extent that it has a restricted subject matter, that is, the class of objects and properties that it processes information about is circumscribed in a relatively narrow way.
Recent events have strengthened the case for "narrow banks", limiting government guarantees to institutions that make only tightly circumscribed investments.
In England and Wales, there is ostensibly a surprisingly narrow 'hybrid zone' occupied by the northern tetraploids D. purpurella and D. traunsteineri (as narrowly circumscribed in the British Isles by [ 50]) and the southern tetraploid D. praetermissa, which more closely resembles D. majalis genetically (e.g. [ 49]).
This new "women's culture" embraces not only Web sites and online magazines but also books, films, television series and entertainment networks that circumscribe, and then pander to, so-called women's interests -- an admittedly narrow range that runs the entire gamut from cosmetics to child care, from personal grooming to personal relationships.
The intimacy is circumscribed.
