Even when you subtract the more recent extraneous additions to our living spaces – the driveways, the hedges, the gates, the CCTV, the private security force – we have living arrangements that practically build in insularity.
Yet each nation's burgeoning rock scene might have continued in insularity were it not for recent advances in technology and more contacts between the local affiliates of multinational record companies.
Myotragus is an extremely modified caprine [21] that evolved in insularity conditions since the end of the Messinian crisis (5.35 million years ago) in the islands of Mallorca and Menorca [22], [23].
To combat the built-in insularity of a Rome-centered Church, Frappointedoinine nine cardinals to his advisory committee one from every continent, plus his new Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
As with climate change, as with war and disarmament, they retreat into insularity in the face of such matters and become protective of their short-term, individual "interests," which mostly concern the bureaucratic sacredness of their borders and an obsessive distinction between us and them.
An estrangement between the South and the rest of the country would bring out the worst in both — dangerous insularity in the first, smug self-deception in the second.
Perhaps "Water Dogs" feels honest in its insularity because it's wrapped so thickly in snow.
He founded New Square in 1954, hoping to reproduce his prewar community in its insularity and piety.
In response to signs of insularity seen in a downward trend in the number of Japanese studying abroad, the government is pursuing measures to create what it calls "global human resources," defined as people with communication skills, a sense of mission and an understanding of both themselves and other cultures.
This superbly intelligent, keenly observed comedy of manners, set amid the glitter of cultural Manhattan in 2001, also looks unsparingly, though sympathetically, at a privileged class unwittingly poised, in its insularity, for the catastrophe of 9/11.
The vote in Parliament "could turn out to be the signal for a strategic shift in favor of insularity," said Ian Bond, a foreign policy specialist at the Center for European Reform in London.
