"This vote wouldn't be so close if this process hadn't been so closed".
Americans are so closed minded.
"I'd like to see her not be so closed or censored with her public appearances".
"We thought it would all be so closed, with no women on the street.
But overall, the wine is so closed or inward -- tight, in wine jargon -- that it counsels consumer patience.
According to one contemporary, he was so closed that, had he got religion, he would not have "told it to God".
Japan's political culture is so closed that locals have a big head start in mastering the nuances, says Dennis Johnson of George Washington University's School of Political Management.
North Korea is so closed, its people apparently so quiescent, that when he postponed the summit for a day, he felt no need to explain why.
And in this day and age, when mainstream music debate is so closed apart from in specialist magazines and blogs, that's more important than ever," says Webster.
Fully opening up the country's 70 or so closed professions would boost gross domestic product by 10 percent in five years and by some 17 percent in the long-run, according to the Athens-based IOBE research group.
"This country was so closed that nobody, not God, not Buddha, could get in in the last 50 years without a visa," Park Sang Kwon, president of Pyeonghwa, told reporters in Seoul, where the company has its headquarters.
