Then his expression grew closed-off once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demon From The Dark] Reference

Rid myself of any frowns or closed-off expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bodhisattva's Garland of Gems] Reference

We're going to go into this sort of closed-off room.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference

And the veil began to drop from the closed-off part of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

Three girls: the smart one, the moody one and the closed-off one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comically Challenged: Power Girl #7 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference

But then I remember how closed-off his alcoholism was from reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Never Ceases to Break My Heart] Reference

Several hundred people filled closed-off streets to cheer and dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos of the Year: The Best] Reference

Keep yourself closed-off, and nobody could touch you enough to hurt you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]

I checked them all, and they were all tube-shaped with a closed-off end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Walmart on Top of America] Reference

He was passed with a nod, and headed for the little closed-off polling place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

There was a closed-off area at the far end, which he guessed was the bathroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

A special catheter is used to create a hole in the closed-off pulmonary valve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulmonary Atresia] Reference

You'll see that cold, closed-off look on most of the women at N Street Village.    From Wordnik.com.  [At District's N Street Village, a chance for women to knit a lifeline to others] Reference

It wasn't the smoothest move of my life, but I'd never been in a closed-off area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violets Are Blue]

We need healthy free-market competition applied to this closed-off, insulated racket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Uh-Oh] Reference

It is difficult to get access into the city, other than her closed-off wharves and trading places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

You assume that they're -- that somehow they're -- they're living in a very closed-off, smaller world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2001] Reference

British rockers Your Vegas, fresh off of tour with Duran Duran, mingled in the closed-off VIP section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gen Art Benefit Co-opted by MTV; Is No Party Safe From 'Reality' Cams?] Reference

Wired's Sarah Lai Stirland reports that the debates this year are largely closed-off broadcast affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Wikiing for a "Fair Fight"] Reference

For most of American history, political parties were brands that were closed-off and corporate in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope for the Democrats: How-To for the Hustings] Reference

Cho jumped at a rare second chance to report from inside one of the most closed-off countries in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alina Cho, CNN Journalist, Talks About Reporting Inside North Korea] Reference

          In the closed-off operations room, the TDV came back for him with an explosive burst of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

Like as soon as he stepped into my house last night - quiet, reserved, closed-off movements and body expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sean: Return of the King] Reference

I badged my way through a barricade and ran down a long corridor that led to the closed-off section of the museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [3rd Degree]

This is an argument often heard today within the closed-off circles of academics, but rarely in the halls of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross Chanin: American Freedom, Check the Mirror: Do You Like What You See?] Reference

Unlike Mitchell, whose queasiness with PDA's (a trait inherited by his closed-off dad) makes for another inspired episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt's TV Week in Review] Reference

In fact, most of them said he blew down the closed-off blocks to avoid a hit-and-run he got into up near the post office on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Thill: Memo to Everyone. Get. Over. OJ. Right. Now.] Reference

By nightfall, there were no confirmed deaths, and children played soccer on closed-off streets in a generally joyous atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Barry for Drug Czar] Reference

I want a widespread popular audience, because if Star Trek appeals only to a closed-off crowd of fans, that's no good for anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revisiting Star Trek [Part 7 of 7]: The New Trek Reboot] Reference

You can't let the devastation of a divorce take over and win — let it make you this bitter, closed-off, angry, skeptical person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston] Reference

I love -- and certainly identify with -- her real world, "out there" experience over her opponents 'closed-off years in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danielle Crittenden: T'Aint "Elitist" to Be Anti-Palin] Reference

Like, why do I have to be so crazy over Colin, who is totally emotionally closed-off, when I know so many guys I click so well with?.    From Wordnik.com.  [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference

I agree that China, one of the world's largest economies, is facing a managerial-skills problem brought on by its closed-off culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A Cool Muslim Metropolis] Reference

While this fostered strong local businesses, India remained parochial, closed-off and uncompetitive vis-Ã-vis the rest of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [India's Renewed Tryst with Destiny] Reference

I mean, what was so horrifying about this, it wasn't happening in some private place in the middle of the night, in a closed-off room.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2009] Reference

How Sarah is intellectually closed-off and operates out of a narrow conservative ideology is the intensely focused way Rose functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avery Corman: Sarah Palin To Replace Patti Lupone in Gypsy?] Reference

No damage to the clothes (thankfully my new work clothes were stashed in the closed-off bedroom), but they ripped into a fluffy blanket.    From Wordnik.com.  [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference

Most analysts say the concession is driven by the closed-off nation's desperate need for food and energy in the form of international aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the 'Axis' of Evil] Reference