Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.

Already in the early 1980s he had widened the narrow sphere of interest of the classical avant-garde.

Who cooped her up within this narrow sphere?

The diplomatic character is of itself the narrowest sphere of society that man can act in.

It took so much to lift me out of my narrow sphere to that which my talents truly deserved.

Unconnected with persons of distinction and out of touch with the great world, it follows models bound within its own narrow sphere.

Such a value system might be just about tolerable if economics were restricted to a narrow sphere of inquiry.

The lawyer occupies a narrow sphere of existence, as if life can be reduced to a clinical exercise.

A village is by much too narrow a sphere for him; even an ordinary market town is scarce large enough to afford him constant occupation.

I should feel as if I could not depart in peace out of this narrow sphere unless I endeavored to explore my prison.