Sentence examples for the imprisoning from inspiring English sources

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the imprisoning

verb

To put in or as if in prison; confine.

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Nelson considers hypertext to be "the manifest destiny of literature -- breaking out of the imprisoning four walls of paper".

What you get from this production is not some obscure history lesson but a fast-moving narrative about the imprisoning effect of power.

Linda Bassett is magnificently funny and moving as Mrs Bryant a dour stoic who raises laughs as she repetitively rabbits gloomy gossip, but who's in no need of help from a patronising daughter to be aware of the imprisoning monotony of her routine.

It was, and is, a most modern of conditions to wish yourself away, to want to be anywhere but here and to feel forever the imprisoning walls of your skull and your circumstances; few painters have ever dramatised this frustration with quite such gusto.

There is pure pleasure -- but not a whit of color extraneous to the emotional hue of the characters -- in the ceremonies, the corridors, the food, the hierarchies, the imprisoning effect of kingly and queenly power, the excursions out of a Book of Hours, the evocation of the winter moon on snow: "The higher it rose, the smaller and harder and more brilliant it became.

Be it the imprisoning sea or the unpredictable sky, life keeps changing and moving, constantly adrift; so do the life's miseries and vulnerabilities.

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To escape the imprisoned longing.

The imprisoned Michael Vick certainly is.

The release of Mr. Ajami, the imprisoned poet?

The imprisoned Wes Moore became a grandfather last year at 33.

Damelin has written to the imprisoned killer of her son.

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