self-enclosed

Both places are huge, so it’s easy for people who live there to think they’re in a self-enclosed world.

Creative levels are no longer self-enclosed entities, complete in themselves.

Letters: The prime minister thinks some communities are too self-enclosed.

God becomes the energy exploding open the tomb of the self-enclosed world.

Books, he continues, allow him to enter a self-enclosed world, one that's harder to get into with his own line of work.

Such self-enclosed achievements do not seem to be what Chiasson is primarily after, however.

Each gets a self-enclosed act of the picture to themselves, and rise to the occasion with performances that both near their career peaks.

It gives him an imperious and self-enclosed character completely out of keeping with his complex nature.

The process is shut in a private, self-enclosed cocoon.

The first solo museum show by this young artist is a single, stagelike self-enclosed environment.

This ghetto is a self-enclosed world that has only the barest contact with any larger town.

The language seems self-enclosed at first, each new definition an opaque cluster of words that themselves need defining.

His characters usually function in a self-enclosed society.

Those plots tend to be self-enclosed; there is no outside world that either the characters or the audience need acknowledge.

War refers only to itself - war is self-enclosed.

And with the camera focusing so intently on the crowd, there is no sense of the city beyond this cozy, self-enclosed space.

This self-enclosed metaphor is the gospel of market fundamentalists.

This gives the collection a somewhat self-enclosed quality.

It was as his mother said: he had grown too insular, too self-enclosed.

What matters is that the plot makes internal sense as an elaborate self-enclosed contraption.

Guy, when he heard the news, turned bloodless gray and was silent and self-enclosed for several hours.

A recurrent theme is that the American gospel scene is a self-enclosed world.

Yet, these and other avenues of potential interest didn’t so much fizzle out as simply vanish before the next self-enclosed section began.

It's a self-enclosed community where, as they say here, "there's a direct road from the maternity ward to the cemetery."

Self-enclosed cultural identity is laudable, but it can also lead to a backwater mentality.