Sentence examples for insular about from inspiring English sources

Yet there is something insular about it that bothers him.

There's something solipsistic and insular about sitting at home and writing a column".

Looking back there was something epic – epically banal, epically insular – about the cracked, self-mythologising personal fiefdom of Keys and Gray.

She is supposed to find them jobs, but she and her white charity-worker colleagues are shockingly dense and insular about what their charges have undergone, and how lost they are in America.

At a time when even George W. has decided that there is a world out there after all — though you want to watch out for showoff stuff like actually speaking other languages (Imagine! people speaking French in France to the French President) — we remain stubbornly insular about the games we like to watch and play.

Insular lizards spent about equal amounts of time under different levels of radiation while mainland lizards spent 68% of the time directly under the light bulb.

In November 2012, during World Hepatitis Day, the Italian Ministry of Health confirmed that prevalence of HCV seropositivity was higher in Southern and Insular areas (about 8.0%) than in Central and Northern regions (about 2.0%).

But a few activists dominated these groups, in an insular conversation about "the process" that kept returning to ideas for restructuring into smaller groups in order to refine the process and make it "more inclusive".

Yes, Harry is a bit of a prig, but to a critic half-deadened by endless insular plays about the British class system, Eliot's insistence that the man has a soul to discover seemed infinitely refreshing.

One does have the sense that economic policy discussion in the WH has grown dangerously insular; just about anyone outside, if asked, could have told them what a mess they'd make by floating the idea of choosing Summers over Yellen.

"Losing My Edge" is simultaneously about a specific, insular community and about a general kind of anxiety.