Sentence examples for so imprisoned from inspiring English sources

"We're so imprisoned by the need to get things right.

From someone who once was so imprisoned by their mind that getting out of bed was frequently an impossibility, to competing in an Ironman.

Their calculation was that if East Germans did not feel so imprisoned in the East, they would not be so desperate to flee to the West.

By the end, so imprisoned by vanity that he nearly refused a face-lift if it meant removing his wig, Liberace had become a true American bellwether, a man whose life was fraught with signs of his times even if his memoirs, contrary to Mr. Pyron's claim, do not warrant comparison to Benjamin Franklin's.

But Descartes did not view this as immediate attachment: "I do not think that the soul is so imprisoned in the gland that it cannot act elsewhere.

The average student is younger, less biased, more curious, and more critical than other members of society are; they are also not yet so imprisoned by status-oriented professional or financial interests.

Trussed up in tops so imprisoning that you keep expecting her breasts to attempt a mass breakout, like Steve McQueen and the gang in "The Great Escape," Plum seems at first a cipher, a Betty Boop sex doll, and yet her freakish calm is stirred by gentleness.

My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.

Said, a pugnacious advocate for an independent state of Palestine became drawn into some visceral arguments in a way that helped politicise a book whose scholarly first intent had been to use, in Said's words, a "humanistic critique to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of thought-stopping fury that so imprison us".

More problematic, city magazines, by their nature, can get only so big, imprisoned by the economic cycle of their cities.

"David Cameron should speak out strongly and publicly against these abuses, urge far-reaching reform, and press for the release of all those activists, lawyers and journalists so unjustly imprisoned.