Sentence examples for wholly defined from inspiring English sources

Rather than self-sufficient individuals, humans were seen to be embedded in communal relations that almost wholly defined them.

You might resist becoming wholly defined as a ballplayer by laying claim to more than that — father, artist, neighbor — but such attempts are often hollow.

A shallow, sensual American boy, then, wholly defined by desire, and too dazzled and jangled by the lure of money to care, or even notice, that he's becoming a parasite.

Lila, whose life until she moved to Gilead and met Ames has been wholly defined and circumscribed by the always-fulfilled prospect of disappointment, is terrified of wanting anything.

What we must do more of is to consider our own careers and lives, as well as those of others, as evolving cycles rather than as being wholly defined by phrases like "Retro Wife," "Opt-Out" or "Lean In".

SANA, Yemen — The Obama administration wants to help Yemen do more than hunt down Islamic terrorists, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told this fragile Arab country on Tuesday as she sought to broaden a relationship almost wholly defined by American concerns that Yemen is a staging ground for plots against the United States.

Rather it wholly defines my own outlook onto the world.

It is part of you, but it does not wholly define you.

Like Copeland and Blunt, he's found a way to express his affinity for the place that made him, while still suggesting that it can't wholly define him.

These guy's guys are defined wholly by their jobs: they are what they do.

If he is right, and goodness cannot be defined wholly with reference to concepts from the empirical sciences, then goodness is a sui generis notion, i.e., is one that can only be understood in its own, evaluative terms.