Sentence examples for private cocoons from inspiring English sources

"A certain segment of the population has concluded that the public system is a failure and has opted out by creating their own private cocoons," he said.

Locked away in our private cocoons, our chief way of imagining what other people are like has become the media, and as a consequence we naturally expect all strangers will be murderers, swindlers and paedophiles.

"I have a dressing room!" she announced, whipping a cotton sheet into a private cocoon with a few deftly placed safety pins.

Entering the Carlyle from Madison Avenue and 76th Street after, say, a visit to the Whitney or the Frick, is like stepping into a discreet and private cocoon.

The man-to-man marking of experienced Continental players did not seem to affect Souness, who glided about the midfield in his own private cocoon of space.

"I don't see it as a private cocoon," said Mark Poster, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, who has studied the social impact of cellphones.

Lush landscaping creates a private cocoon around the perimeter of the property. .

Such eccentricity might not even be at home here because Sandy Lane, like so many very high-end resorts now, is more about private-jet cocooning than jet-set glamour.

Experts said Woods might have to step outside the cocoon in which his private life is usually wrapped in order to take control of the story.

This is not, to my mind, an entirely plausible vision; indeed, it has some of the same unrealism about human nature that you sometimes hear from those progressives who blame failed and failing public schools on the "selfish" parents who opt out of them (whether via private schooling or homeschooling or SuperZIP cocooning).

("Pink!") I remember Mrs. Stamp's private pre-school, where I learned about cocoons and how to spell "cat".