Sentence examples for self insulated from inspiring English sources

But others find it hard to keep their sense of self insulated from losses.

He marveled, not for the first time, at how the self insulates and protects itself against life's shocks.

"Ten years ago, none of this technology was even available," said Mr. Al-Sayed, who even in the biblical heat of Phoenix was layered in a long-sleeved shirt and an undershirt (a self-insulating trick that his father taught him after years of working in Saudi Arabia).

The hemp-based building material is known for its self-insulating capabilities; also for the fact that it is resistant to rotting, rodents and insects; and extraordinarily fireproof, waterproof and extremely weather resistant.

Suddenly, a bloody youngster appears in a surreal vision according to the style of the play, but all too joltingly real to the no longer insulated, self-absorbed passengers.

So self-absorbed and insulated from the outside world was MetLife as a mutual insurer that it never bothered to keep track of profits.

By contrast, Zee Town feels caught flatfooted, insulated by self-regard or lack of care from feeling like it needed to engage the social complexity all around it.

Senior managers -- once viewed as enlightened corporate statesmen -- began to be portrayed as an insulated, purely self-interested elite, ill prepared to face the challenges of global competition and technological change.

They think the American economy is insulated enough (self-sufficient enough?) to weather any typhoons caused by an earthquake in the Chinese economy.

The energy deposition of high-intensity pulsed ion beam (HIPIB) into a titanium target was studied in TEMP-6 apparatus of bipolar-pulse mode using a self-magnetic field magnetically insulated ion diode (MID), where anode plasma was pre-generated by a first negative voltage and then mixed carbon ions and proton beam was extracted during the positive stage of the bipolar pulse.

Unlike Vince and his cadre of fools, Ari thinks big thoughts, feels big feelings and makes one big mistake after another, while the others — Vince, Drama, Turtle, Eric — shuffle across polished floors with the superficial self-assurance of men so insulated from the real world that they can't even remember what mediocre sushi tastes like.