Sentence examples for walled into from inspiring English sources

Since the Gypsies are the one ancient minority still walled into ghettos in some European cities, perhaps this insistence can be forgiven.

Alleged relics of the True Cross, reputedly the wood of the cross on which Jesus was crucified, were found in 1492 walled into a niche and later were moved to a modern chapel.

They are neatly cut up and craftily stowed beneath floorboards ("The Tell-Tale Heart"); they are walled into ancient catacombs where nothing is likely to disturb their well-earned eternal slumber ("The Cask of Amontillado"); they are encased in coffins that somehow permit them to emerge to take care of unfinished business ("The Fall of the House of Usher").

Clearly their major works cannot travel, but each painter is represented, Rivera by one of his folksy friezes of swaying Mexican dancers, Siqueiros by a yet more potent image of Zapata walled into a cell and hieratic as an Aztec statue.

She is taken prisoner, has her great confrontation with her uncle (from which I quote above), and, in one of the diabolically symmetrical punishments so beloved of Greek tragedians, is herself buried alive as punishment for her crime of burying the dead — walled into a tomb of rock, to expire there.

Beyond the sensational appeal of Poe's work - the man walled into a wine cellar alive in 'The Cask Of Amontillado'; the doomed, sick love of 'The Fall Of The House Of Usher' - Reed, like Poe, is fascinated by the continual appeal of wrongdoing; the sinner's self-destruction, more than the sin.

"You can bet that it was once a canopy that was walled in and transformed into a home".

In some, these are relatively unobtrusive screens; in others, departments employing women are walled off into giant mazes.

For Standing Here (2010) the artist walled herself into a standing-room only space, square and nearly ceiling-high, during the biennial's installation.

With a ceiling 18 feet high, it can also be walled off into separate areas that allow for smaller special exhibitions.

Having provided their users with access to the internet, however, these venerable digital communities were undermined by it.Why stay within a closed community when you can roam outside its walled garden, into the wilds of the internet proper?