In "The Suitor" a sheltered young man fecklessly imitates the courtship rituals he observes in the streets.
He is a sheltered young man "who didn't know anybody who was exiled to grim mining towns or ground tree bark into their stew in order to fill their stomachs''; he and his family used to have nothing in common with provincial schoolkids forced to work in the opium fields.
The mystery here is not Stephen's ultimate fate (Rockefeller's body was never found) but what draws him from his sheltered world to an untouched Stone Age land where women suckle piglets and men wear necklaces of human vertebrae.
I was in this sheltered world.
Jack Plum is a terribly deformed man kept sheltered from society by his monstrous, wheelchair-bound mother.
TLC's hit series "Breaking Amish" follows rebellious Amish and Mennonite men and women as they explore the world outside of their sheltered communities -- and now they're headed to Los Angeles.
It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.
I soon bump into a man dressed as Jesus Christ, whose "sheltered and conservative" upbringing was disrupted when he had his mind opened by the movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, specifically the cactus trip sequence soundtracked by White Zombie.
It's not that I've lived a sheltered life; I am the wife of a Navy man, after all (many cuss words have nautical origins, you know) and have worked in offices where the F-word was casually batted about by both men and women like whiffle balls.
Animals — like humans — seek a safe, sheltered place to sleep.
