Example sentences of "cut off from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 2 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 3 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 4 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 5 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 6 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 7 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
| 8 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 9 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 12 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 13 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 14 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 15 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 16 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
| 17 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 18 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 19 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 20 | These detainees , convicted of taking part in attempted coups against King Hassan II in 1971 and 1972 , were held incommunicado , completely cut off from the outside world for 19 years ; the only news from them was in rare letters smuggled out . |
| 21 | Russia 's oblast of Kaliningrad , virtually cut off from the rest of the republic by the new Baltic States , is in a unique position . |
| 22 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 23 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 24 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 25 | It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies . |
| 26 | Its attraction for visitors is enhanced by being temporarily cut off from the mainland by the tides . |
| 27 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
| 28 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 29 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 30 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |