Example sentences of "trapped within [art] " in BNC.

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1 She understands the world through trivial fictions , and is trapped within a child 's view of history and society .
2 I was n't trapped within a vision of my femaleness .
3 Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids .
4 Compelled to re-enact rituals which appear only as stupid , trapped within the cyclic world of ‘ the love of created beings ’ , Eliot 's characters lead ‘ preord ’ lives of deep horror .
5 Dressed in his father 's shirt , his mop of black hair savagely pruned and his skin scrubbed and glowing , he looked like a thin bewildered stranger trapped within the glass .
6 The subject of Les Fruits d'or ( 1963 ) is a novel which is itself entitled ‘ Les Fruits d'or ’ ; this situation acts as a catalyst for tropistic interactions amongst a set of predominantly anonymous figures who are trapped within the fixed patterns of social discourse .
7 Those losing jobs from companies relocating to the inner cities would probably be able to acquire new jobs much more easily than those trapped within the cities .
8 He has measured noble gases trapped within the meteorites and found them similar in composition to the Martian atmosphere analysed by NASA 's Viking landers .
9 A chemist would say that the colour comes from sulphur molecules trapped within the crystalline matrix of the stone .
10 Monika was left isolated — yet still trapped within the Church .
11 The rougher the surface , the darker the wash will appear when dry , as pools of colour get trapped within the tooth of the textured sheet .
12 The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured .
13 The gas trapped within the cupped optic disc will adopt the shape of maximum volume and least surface area and will thus present a spherical anterior surface , which will protrude into the posterior vitreous face .
14 By continuing to ask ‘ is it true ? ’ instead of analysing ‘ which truth ? ’ and ‘ whose truth ? ’ , antiracists often remain trapped within the paradox we identified at the beginning of this Introduction .
15 But the terms of the Report 's discussion remained ultimately trapped within the ethnic and cultural essentialism inherited from Ramp ton .
16 The BaByliss Epilady , £37 , works on a similar principle ; a soft metal coil is drawn over the skin and as it vibrates hairs are trapped within the coil and plucked out .
17 This means that some of the energy which would otherwise escape to outer space is trapped within the atmosphere .
18 To many this might seem a dry and rather dusty concern ; but those who have watched the progress of AD can hardly fail to ask if the person they once knew is still somehow trapped within the body and mind of the sufferer .
19 I think that it must have been a frightening experience for people trapped within the train for that time .
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