And because of that, you've shut yourself off from the world.

And here I thought you were using it to shut yourself off from contact with other people.

"Are you going to shut yourself off from life because of something that happened fifteen years ago?"

And you can shut yourself off from what's happening by concentrating on your work.

"Are you really ready to shut yourself off?"

"I find people interesting, and it's also a part of the obligation of being human, not shutting yourself off."

"Except when you shut yourself off from me."

Shut yourself off as completely as you can from all past associations, and communicate with no one.

That's why you shut yourself off.

"You must never shut yourself off.

Shut yourself off!"

"Randisi made some errors, but there is potential..." "He feels as if you're... you're shutting yourself off from him.

"Because of a set of circumstances you couldn't avoid, you're going to shut yourself off from whatever feelings or desires you have for me because they don't suit your current plans?"

"It is very hard to shut yourself off, knowing that someone was just carted off to detention," said Miss Gordinmer, who through the years staunchly resisted suggestions that she leave South Africa.

"From the way you described her to me, I think she'd tell you to dig in like a clam, shut yourself off from the phonies like an oyster, and clamp down on what you want like an alligator.

He is almost obsessive-compulsive in his efforts to avoid contamination, and much of the book is a comedy of his being thrown into close contact with a world that he fears, and doesn't wholly understand: "You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind" (Canetti, 15).

We are going to shut off the air here in five minutes.

The woman shut off the water and turned toward him.

Every time, they shut off after what felt like a few minutes.

The water, from the city system, can be turned up, down or shut off.

Could a guy in the central office shut off someone's phone?

Tell him to shut off the computer and go to bed.

So we've got to get everything shut off that we can.

I thought perhaps he'd shut off, and was going down to land.

But how was Chicago, shut off from the rest of the world, to know?

When those television programs are shut off for a while.

It put us in a very - what happened was we all shut off.

"How many times will you have to shut off power?"

Someone or something was shutting off the air on him.

And so for a minute I shut off the sound.

I pulled up behind her, and shut off my car.

I heard the radio in the next room shut off.

When the water was shut off, people died in large numbers.

Okay, so now all he had to do was to shut off the power.

Then I go to the wall and shut off the lights.

After that they are shut off, leaving us in free fall.

On October 19, power was shut off to the park.

"They are supposed to shut off after three minutes, but many do not."

As a result, the Government shuts off the power up to 8 to 12 hours a day.

Many are giving friends and family the power to shut off medical treatment when they no longer can.

Two weeks later, the heat in her apartment building was shut off for several days.