How to Use hermetic in a Sentence

hermetic

adjective

• But even the hermetic seal of the hall couldn’t seal out the Big News entirely.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
• But from them a picture of the hermetic Siglo XXI emerges.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• Winslow Homer, dour and hermetic, spent the last decades of his life perched in his small studio above the sharp stone ledges of Prouts Neck, Maine.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
• There’s something hermetic about her work that feels true to New York.
  — Alice McDermott, New York Times, 22 June 2022
• Yet like his other duds, it’s marked by a kind of hermetic mischievous self-love.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2023
• But, of course, no one, no matter how rich or hermetic, is truly safe.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 21 May 2014
• Set in a dark, cluttered space — the tract house where hermetic Charlie’s soul unfolds — The Whale feels as contrived as a stage play.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the hermetic kingdom of the dining room, the host is at once benefactor and dictator.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• Part of it is that the chaos of air travel dictates a unique set of laws, which exist only within the hermetic seal of the terminal.
  — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
• The non-game world begins to penetrate the hermetic sphere of the theater, and the players have to abandon their abstractions.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• There was no one to block access, a true feat in the hermetic world of top-flight sports, where millions of dollars are spent manicuring the images of teams and athletes.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2020
• Metal detectors show that some of the shipwreck and its artifacts remain entombed in sand, which acts like a hermetic seal to keep out the ravages of the sea.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2017
• Instead, her life was reduced to a hermetic state of trying to avoid the symptoms of withdrawal, floating among apartments in New York, Berlin and Paris.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2018
• President Moon Jae-in office lavished attention upon the hermetic leader’s sister through their stay in the South over the first few days of the Games.
  — David Jackson, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2018
• Who will be given a person and a voice within this hermetic little universe?
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017
• The result, which opens today and is on view through October 7, is sober, austere, and almost hermetic from a distance.
  — Giovanna Dunmall, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• The goal is to create the digital equivalent of a hermetic seal between the three teams, who all work on an identical coding project.
  — Martin Giles, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• And this is one of the main achievements of the book: to unravel Tony's sometimes hermetic personality.
  — Jorge Ebro, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• His images are as rigid and hermetic as the illustrations in a graphic novel.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• Scene after scene bears the hermetic rigor of a rite, one that outsiders—or even other members of the household—may struggle to understand.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 June 2018
• Many scholars believe that the scrolls were produced by an ascetic group known as the Essenes, who withdrew to a hermetic lifestyle in protest over the way the Second Temple in Jerusalem was being run.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
• Heading to what is essentially the doorstep of Kim Jong Un’s hermetic kingdom would create a flood of attention.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• What, beyond the suggestion of a tobacco factory, lay beyond the hermetic seal of this set?
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 May 2022
• Beyond that, candles themselves are ill-suited to the hermetic environment of a movie set.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2017
• But for many couples, texting has become the primary mode even when a hermetic seal isn’t necessary.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2021
• Escorting Clarke’s work from the hermetic place where it is created to the outside world has become something of a vocation for Greenland.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• Efforts to keep that hermetic seal are getting more desperate.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• Within the hermetic world of Roman aristocracy, the Torlonia clan has always stood apart.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• The hermetic setting intensifies those hothouse dynamics, which the actors often bring to life beyond what Thorndike’s bare-bones script gives them to work with.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Between the local bus strike and an absurdist demonstration by hospital workers, a sense of societal unrest permeates the otherwise hermetic microcosm in which the film takes place.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023

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