Sentence examples for insular form from inspiring English sources

Dancehall reggae sometimes seems like a furiously insular form of music, but it's not, and the rookie pop-star Rihanna is only the latest singer to discover how versatile the genre's spring-loaded electronic rhythms can be.

But  philosophy is not the name of, or the site of, thought  generally; it is a special, insular form of thought and  its propositions have weight and value only in the precincts of its game.

The halmaturinus population on Kangaroo Island has a significantly shorter wing and longer bill than the Mount Lofty population, although this size variation of an insular form is at odds with Allen's and Bergmann's rules.

Insular forms did not differentiate substantially in morphology or ecology, but A. brunneus evolved a wider tolerance to cold, which appeared to have facilitated its geographic expansion.

A history of the creation of dance music through the rhythmic scratching and spontaneous mixing of sounds played on multiple turntables, the movie portrays scratching as a rapidly evolving, rather insular art form.

The human insular cortex forms a distinct, but entirely hidden lobe, situated in the depth of the Sylvian fissure.

A handful of psychiatrists and mental health workers have told me – anonymously, for obvious reasons – that patients have formed insular online forums, where they engage in paranoid discussion about the people treating them and share strategies to disrupt or wreck the treatment they receive.

The island, isolated until a tourist boom that began in the late 1960s, is a sociological preserve for descendants of Jews who formed an insular community of Catholic converts that intermarried through the centuries because of religious persecution and discrimination that barred them from holding certain positions in the Roman Catholic Church through the 20th century.

Now the insular factions have begun to form alliances.

It provides a pluralistic historical background of the genuine vernacular architectural and urban forms of an insular context.

MIT's analysis — which used the social media company's complete data set — shows that on Twitter, Trump supporters formed a particularly insular group when talking about politics during the general election.