Sentence examples for a certain insularity from inspiring English sources
Those traditions have given the city a certain insularity.
This is the Ardèche, a part of France known for its rustic charm, and for a certain insularity.
If there had been a weakness in Magee's Men of Ideas, it was a certain insularity: it confined itself to Anglo-American philosophers at a time when some of the most talked-about developments were taking place on the continent.
Four Seasons has been accused of a certain insularity and caution over the years, but it is renowned for the corporate pride instilled in its more than 30,000 employees worldwide.
But Obama is also a human being, a flawed and complicated one, and as the world has come to know him better we have sometimes seen the downside of his temperament: a certain insularity and self-satisfaction; a tendency at times — as in the first debate with Mitt Romney — to betray disdain for the unpleasant tasks of politics.
There's a danger that in a society where everyone is middle class, there will also be a certain insularity and a reticence to submit to new ideas". The city has a highly regarded symphony orchestra and a productive regional theatre, but unlike Oslo, which hosts the annual Ibsen festival, and Bergen, the birthplace of Grieg, Stavanger has no major figure to celebrate.
One might be forgiven for suspecting a certain smug insularity about both the Decemberists and their fans, what with the audience participation in numbers about whales swallowing seafarers and wild enthusiasm for songs about "chimbley sweeps".
It seemed to me that Saturday quite bolshily said, 'OK, you accuse us of a neurotic obsession with insularity and a certain milieu.
There are no solutions (insularity) within a certain part of the problem.
