Sentence examples for sealed herself from inspiring English sources
With "Now and Then" (1995), she sealed herself in the coming-of-age movie canon; to this day weepy women approach her to tell her how much that movie meant to them.
Although Clover's maternal grandfather, a China trader, was one of the richest men in Boston, her maternal grandmother sealed herself off to pace in a darkened room after the death of her only son.
The Sheffield-born psychology graduate, whose girl next door affability and modesty has sped her progress into the nation's hearts, said she had deliberately sealed herself off from public hopes, which extended to local schoolchildren posting good luck cards through her front door.
Donna Rodriguez, a public relations executive who is 30 weeks pregnant, said that she was amazed that the most innocent activities were suddenly classified as life-threatening, and that she might as well have just sealed herself up in a plastic bubble.
Overcome by guilt, Lucrecia sealed herself away in Mako crystals.
The myth tells how Amaterasu, who had sealed herself inside a cave in anger, was beckoned out by an elder goddess Ame-no-Uzume when others had failed.
Rumania began to seal herself off from the West in 1947.
But if she shut it, it was as if she were sealing herself in a darkened port-a-potty.
Janet, so intent on sealing herself off from human contact that even her married lover has become an annoyance, is irritated by the request.
As the housewife who seals herself off from the world she finds herself allergic to in Todd Haynes's Safe, or as the wife of a closeted gay man in Haynes's Far From Heaven, she brings such brittle intensity to the roles, you can barely breathe watching her.
If the too much woman is a cliché of femininity, so is the affectless, Botoxed one, and that is what its narrator increasingly comes to resemble: a woman who seals herself into a posture of bleak, chic passivity to avoid the risk of pain, of humiliation, of disappointment until she, too, begins to seem more pose than person.
