self-contained

They can do this because they believe they operate in self-contained worlds unto themselves.

The three episodes will be a self-contained arc ending at Prom Night and will serve as a prologue for the rest of the series.

At its peak The Farm had 1,500 members; it was a self-contained world with its own school, farm, midwives and social tenets.

The acting exists in a self-contained bubble of Phoenix yelling at Hoffman and Hoffman yelling at Phoenix, and more yelling.

Each of Baker's paragraphs also seem to exist in a self-contained platform.

A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.

"Lovers" would serve better, but is perhaps too expansive to be used of a self-contained race.

She could scarcely reconcile this acute, self-contained man with the enthusiast and comedian she had seen in the Cure's garden.

Quiet and reserved he always was, a self-contained child whose only friend was his mother.

He watched her as she went about her work, silent, self-contained and solitary.