The cloistered academic world of books. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a cloistered life. From Dictionary.com.
A Dublin education, but a life spent, as he put it, 'cloistered' in the likes of Cambridge, Oxford, St Andrews, and now Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
The SSPX, as I understand it, don't want to engage in the salvation of souls in "cloistered" communities independent of the local Bishops. From Wordnik.com. [Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009] Reference
And I am not going to live behind the Palace walls like some kind of cloistered novitiate. ". From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
With chant of cloistered maids, and swell of organs. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Otherwise his life was as solitary as it was cloistered. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
It is a cloistered belief, and suffers from want of ventilation. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In the cloistered world of entertainment, their news was nothing less than atomic. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Poker] Reference
After 15 minutes of cloistered deliberation, the panel returned to the reception area. From Wordnik.com. [Judgment Day in Queens] Reference
When they spoke again they were in the cloistered wood, the sea hidden by the massive trees. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
That's why we judge other parents so harshly, and why we keep our kids cloistered like Rapunzel. From Wordnik.com. [Mothering As A Spectator Sport] Reference
Add to them India's nuclear scientists, who have gotten very comfortable in their cloistered world. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon to China, Bush to India] Reference
The cloistered air, the quiet and the dim shade seemed to suit him, and he to be in harmony with them. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
But, notwithstanding the cloistered retirement to which he had condemned himself, his wound remained open. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They were cloistered nuns, who added to the ordinary duties of a religious life the education of young girls. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
But beyond the cloistered laboratories, chimpanzees and their behaviors remained, well, the stuff of troglodytes. From Wordnik.com. [From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps] Reference
Within the cloistered world of Tokyo's think tanks and policy foundations, the talk is also becoming more hawkish. From Wordnik.com. [FUEL TO THE FIRE] Reference
It's the story of her own struggle to readjust to the secular world of Oxford in the 1960s after being cloistered. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Clash] Reference
Impressive, indeed, in the eyes of the once cloistered friar must have been this first sight of Eastern splendour. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
She could have remade herself as anything from a jet-setting party girl to the cloistered mother of the future king. From Wordnik.com. [Horror In The Night] Reference
But the more subtle effects are what make the new train a big growth-multiplier for Tibet's once cloistered economy. From Wordnik.com. [Tibet Rides the Rails] Reference
Some critics and readers claim that most poetry today is too cloistered and inaccessible, or that it is just plain bad. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Verse?] Reference
Chávez supporters argue that he's knocking down walls that kept the arts cloistered in the hands of a small, wealthy cabal. From Wordnik.com. [Lights! Camera! Revolución!] Reference
Like John Paul II, who looked to Mother Teresa for inspiration, popes sought out Clare in her cloistered convent for advice. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For A Saint] Reference
Clinton's strongest impulse is to pick a politician or public official who comes from outside the cloistered world of judging. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Perfection] Reference
This had to be heady stuff for conservative Muslims compelled to adopt a cloistered, almost medieval lifestyle for half a decade. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Kabul, Part 2: Tv Hunting] Reference
I shall never forget the visit Shakspere and myself paid to the cloistered, columned, pinnacled proportions of Westminster Abbey. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
The following day Dole flew to his condo in Florida, to practice for his debates, but also to be cloistered in case the story broke. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Look Now] Reference
He had now left that part of the establishment reserved for the insane, and was now in the cloistered part where the brethren dwelt. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
On the death of Vladislav II, in fact on his retirement to the cloistered peace of Strahov, it became evident that there were too many. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
As we passed along by cloistered walls and mural monuments to vanished glory, we were soon within the interior of the grand old Abbey. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
The cloistered orders were out of condition; the secular clergy came to weary of what was, after all, but a matter for the mendicants. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The streets we passed through on our way thither were very quaint, the overhanging shops and cloistered pavements reminding us much of Chester. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Ironically, instead of helping some women integrate, the measure may keep them cloistered in their homes to avoid exposing their faces in public. From Wordnik.com. [French Senate Passes Full Islamic Veils Ban] Reference
One day, Noguerol received a letter from his two sisters, cloistered in a Benedictine convent and scheming to coax their errant brother back home. From Wordnik.com. [The Accidental Bigamist] Reference
Reagan, 87, is cloistered in Bel Air, a victim of Alzheimer's; family friends say that Mrs. Reagan is now the only person he consistently recognizes. From Wordnik.com. [A Reagan Shrine In The Sky] Reference
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