A lonely, illness-prone child, he grew up to inhabit an insular, hermit-like life in which he suffered greatly from the deaths of his parents and eventually succumbed to a painful end from intestinal cancer in 1937.
As Greenwald writes, [Ms. Fowler] will receive ample rewards from that same industry as she peddles her influence in government and exploits her experience with its inner workings to work on that industry's behalf, all of which has been made perfectly legal by the same insular, Versailles-like Washington culture that so lavishly benefits from all of this.
Viscerosensory symptoms represent the second major group of symptoms that were produced by stimulation of the insular cortices, very like previous studies with electrocortical stimulation (Penfield and Faulk 1955; Ostrowsky et al. 2000; Isnard et al. 2004; Nguyen et al. 2009).
The persistent anxiety of the characters is that they will end up exactly like their parents — that growing up in an insular place like Thomaston will leave them no chance to develop, or even to imagine, a different kind of life, or a different mode of being.
Some claim him for trance, while others point to his occasional forays into smaller, more insular genres like dubstep.
She is not above using this knowledge, easily accumulated and stored up in an insular neighborhood like Southie, for emotional blackmail.
"Smith Island is an insular community, like the canary in the mine shaft for the condition of the bay," Mr. Goldsborough said.
His statements may have also reflected a realization by Mr. Booker that in insular communities like Newark, a simple political truth often prevails: roots matter.
And Obama ignores those who urge him to be less insular and — like Jefferson, Lincoln, L.B.J. and Reagan — socialize more with political players, combining fairy dust, elbow grease, intimidation and seduction to get his way.
