Sentence examples for rather self-contained from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fellner's playing may be rather self-contained for some.

Teddy Roosevelt, in "The Cattle Country of the Far West," called cowboys "quiet, rather self-contained men".

Another interesting observation is that for 20 mol% hydrophobic modification rather self-contained and isolated hydrophobic micellar domains are formed.

By looking at patient flows, one can either aim at identifying rather self-contained areas (e.g. following the Elzinga-Hogarty approachf) or at identifying the relevant catchment/distribution area.

(This is a positive development: it will help New Yorkers return to the notion of festivals as something fun that spills all over a public space, rather than self-contained, wallet-chewing affairs).

At the entrance of the players on to Centre Court there was a notable ratcheting up of the ovation as the bicep-flexing, star-jumping Nadal emerged behind the rather more self-contained Djokovic.

Are people playing — having a laugh, rather than being self-contained, serious, aesthetic people?

Rather than a self-contained entity secure behind its rows of classical columns, the museum now exercises centrifugal force.

By this they mean it is becoming the norm for gadgets to collect data and send it to software run by smartphones, tablets and PCs rather than feature self-contained read-out screens.

Here Feyerabend introduced what was to become a long-running theme in his work: that there is no separate and neutral "observation-language" or "everyday language" against which the theoretical statements of science are tested, but that "the everyday level is part of the theoretical rather then something self-contained and independent" (Philosophical Papers, Volume I, p. 217, emphasis added).

Human capital became part of a theory of social behaviour rather than a self-contained theory, and the more Becker advanced in his research, the less he seemed to be worried about exploring the initial links of human capital with income and labour performance.