The French used to be almost as insular as we are – until about 20 years ago, when they started taking language teaching seriously.
The writing of poetry is regularly deemed a dead art, so it is little wonder that its living practitioners are a somewhat petty and xenophobic bunch -- or that the enterprise itself has come to seem, except in the hands of a few populist types like Sharon Olds, Philip Levine and Billy Collins, almost willfully insular.
But they carry the ring of truth about an insular organization, run almost solely by men, many of whom seem to have fungible regard for ethical behavior.
Kingsley described his own childhood environment and upbringing as "insular almost to a fault" and "fiercely non-crazy".
The popular attitude to very brainy people is that they must be, by definition, odd: insular, distracted, almost certainly on the autistic spectrum.
Procter is the largest employer in the Cincinnati area, with 15,000 workers, and over the years it has developed a reputation as an insular and almost stodgy corporate giant.
Very little of the Celtic of that time and the ensuing centuries has survived, and this branch is known almost entirely from the Insular Celtic languages Irish, Welsh, and others—spoken in and near the British Isles, as recorded from the 8th century ce onward.
The materials track the extraordinary degree of intrusion by the government into the life of a man whose energies were devoted almost exclusively to the insular world of folk songs.
Everything about the film is exceptionally insular, as there is almost no outside content or anything that isn't from the point-of-view of either one star or another.
Other higher-ranked teams almost seem immaterial in the insular world of 4 Yawkey Way.
