shuts out

I know it in the same way that I know anything wherein experience shuts out even the shadow of a doubt.

Is not the life that shuts out from itself the society of heaven pitifully impoverished?

Wealth is valueless to the possessor if it shuts out love; and if love be present, wealth holds but an inconsequential place.

The disadvantage of radical empiricism is that it shuts out experience.

The curtain rises on a sea of bamboo, which shuts out all view save the foliage of palm trees and some gaunt rocks.