Sentence examples for insular in from inspiring English sources

"We are insular in terms of our private lives and our institutions and all the rest, but we are not insular in terms of being a vital part of society".

First, one side of the divide became intellectually insular in a way that proved disastrous in the crisis.

Consequently he regarded the Tory party as insular in its outlook as well as suspect in its allegiance.

Skyhawk by Gill Lewis, Where I Come From by Gillian Cross or Shadow by Michael Morpurgo because we should not be too insular in our selections.

Yet asked whether South Jersey is still so insular in this time of galloping exurbanization and mobility, political consultants say: Well, yes.

On a deeper level, it signifies a shift in strategy between two deadlocked parties that have grown increasingly insular in their battle for supremacy.

Guanchica living in insular habitats, in Madeira and the Canary Islands, respectively, also showed relatively high levels of total genetic diversity (García-Verdugo et al. 2009).

But in Derek's case, he was raised in this very insular world in which every influential person in his life believed this to be true.

In all cases, significant differences were identified (P < 0.05) in this insular region in relation to others (Table 3).

He spoke perceptively about the "ludicrousness" of patriotism, while at the same time interrogating the peculiarities of Irishness and the specific pressures of being raised in an insular - in the real sense of the word - nation.

Most of my students live in homogeneous, insular communities in which Norwegian is heard and seen about as frequently as English.