Nick Hornby

It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way.

English Writer

Julian Fellowes

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

English Actor

Willem de Kooning

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

American Artist

Augustus Sol Invictus

To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.

American Activist

Evan Osnos

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

American Journalist

Frances Wright

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Scottish Writer

Carol Gilligan

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

American Psychologist

Haniel Long

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

American Author

Samuel Richardson

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

English Novelist

Scott McCloud

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

American Cartoonist

Imagine drawing a literal boundary to better understand the concept of 'circumscribe'.

Visual Imagery

Think of 'circumscribe' as creating a physical, visible limit around something.

Physical Space

'Circumscribe' can imply an area is exclusive or reserved for a specific purpose.

Exclusive Area

Understand that 'circumscribe' often refers to limitations imposed by external forces or rules.

Imposed Restrictions

Note that 'circumscribe' is often used in formal or official documents and discussions.

Formal Context

'Circumscribe' can suggest subtle ways of control or influence without direct force.

Subtle Control

In math, 'circumscribe' has a precise meaning about shapes, different from its general use.

Geometry Specific

Remember, a circumscribed shape in geometry must touch all vertices of the inner shape.

Touching Vertices

 western edge of the Ring of Fire it's that famous line that circumscribes in Pacific and those were actually gave birth to these islands it's actually much more known for its destructive power just before I came to live here the famous Hanshin earthquake killed thousands of people and pretty much raised the whole city of kobane nowadays

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 that older people are better at doing. Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. Those include abilities at tasks requiring physical strength and stamina, ambition, and the power of novel reasoning in a circumscribed situation,