The university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Even the self-contained Persis found her eyes moist. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Cases like Enron and WorldCom were more self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Mintz: Don't Bank on Subprime Indictments Anytime Soon] Reference
As Ree, Jennifer Lawrence is hauntingly self-contained. From Wordnik.com. ['Winter's Bone:' A Miraculous Film From The Ozarks] Reference
"" He is entirely self-contained, '' says a former aide. From Wordnik.com. [A Lovely Donnybrook] Reference
Just go see a single chapter … each one is self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [Falling for Theater] Reference
Even as each episode is self-contained, each season has an arc. From Wordnik.com. ['Burn Notice': A Refreshingly Retro Spy Caper] Reference
Their starting point: Our form of government is "self-contained.". From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Written in Stone? Yes. A Living Document? Ditto. Two Experts Explain The Constitution.] Reference
"William is a private and self-contained person," one minister said. From Wordnik.com. [Tories offer support to William Hague despite concerns over poor judgment] Reference
She looked older than her years, stately, self-contained and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
He was "self-contained, reserved," recalled his roommate, Lee Van Boven. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter Of Honor] Reference
Economics textbooks once described the U.S. economy as mainly self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [TIME TO TOSS THE TEXTBOOK] Reference
When he's wearing his scuba mask, he's practically a self-contained submarine. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
They are the most insular and self-contained and self-suppressed women I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Certainly the pilot episode gives you fair warning; it's anything but self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [2010 Fall TV Lineup: 10 New Shows Worth Checking Out] Reference
She offered her hand winningly, but the strange, self-contained young girl ignored it. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
First, the development of a self-contained and homogeneous community was made impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Often he'll volley between pure tones and split ones, for self-contained call and response. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Newsome: A Soprano Sax 'Soliloquy'] Reference
It's low rise, and in some ways it solves the traffic problem because it is self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [A Jump-Start In Cyberspace] Reference
He can be hard to read; he is, in the end, a very self-contained and rather solitary figure. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Lincoln] Reference
Above all, Lieberstein says he's most excited for this season's more self-contained episodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Office: The Pressure’s (Not) On for Steve Carell’s Last Year] Reference
Presbyterians were cerebral, self-contained and bent on making civic life conform to God's will. From Wordnik.com. [Dead End For The Mainline?] Reference
Obama was remarkably self-contained, but he was also palpably emotionally attached to his family. From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
Widespread protests forced the Gambian government to ban the self-contained tourist enclaves in 1999. From Wordnik.com. [Getaway? Go Away!] Reference
Pittsburgh in that time, I lived in a little community, a very small community that was very self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composer Gets His Due] Reference
Yes, there is a piece of fiction here ( "Ambush at Fort Bragg," a self-contained novella cut from "A Man in Full"). From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe, Ace Reporter] Reference
Joerres said Germany benefits from having an export-heavy economy, in contrast to Italy's "more self-contained" one. From Wordnik.com. [The Best And Worst Countries For New Jobs This Fall] Reference
These are self-contained multiplayer modes, in which all participants bet on their ability to finish a stage in the top three. From Wordnik.com. [Call of Duty: Black Ops - multiplayer details revealed] Reference
Perry often refers to his work as "my brand," a self-contained network of movies, musicals, books, DVDs, programs and posters. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Thriving Black Artist] Reference
But another former Arizona neighbor recalls that a day or two after 9/11, the normally self-contained Saudi was behaving oddly. From Wordnik.com. [MYSTERY FLIGHT] Reference
This implies that there is no such thing as acceleration as a self-contained entity, merely attached to mass in an external way. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
But those immigrants built the city inward and upward, and few ever ventured off the cramped, self-contained island of Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [The New New York] Reference
As technology breaches the old self-contained vessels of information, the whole notion of mind control will be much more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [From The Prison Of The 'Isms'] Reference
Comaneci was the smoldering Romanian princess -- so intense, self-contained and mysterious that she was almost unaware of the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Bounds For Glory] Reference
She made no reply to this, but a moment later she started to her feet, and again became the haughty, self-contained, relentless, Juno. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
Their ranks include veterans of the Afghan war, and they control two self-contained communities on Mindanao where Islamic law prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Plowshares Into Swords] Reference
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