In the case of this story's characters, the hermetic world of the family is even more rarefied than usual.

In this eerie hermetic world, people are subjected to physical and emotional stress.

We are locked in the hermetic, dog-eat-dog world of the court, where every smile is false.

The channel wasn't really doing anything anyone outside the hermetic world of science fiction cared about.

This documentary tries to look beyond the headlines to shed light on what appears to be a hermetic, and often menacing, world.

The hermetic rural world that Brazil's new president was born into in 1945 is a shrinking one.

The studio becomes a hermetic world, a psychological projection, in which body and architecture seem to merge.

Sally Mann has created a hermetic world controlled by Mom.

He said he finds the secret, hermetic world of the terrorist or the drug dealer fascinating.

L is not widely known even within the hermetic world of contemporary art.