Sentence examples for insular places from inspiring English sources

But Vietnamese villages are insular places, stubborn and self-contained.

THE Detroit headquarters of the big three American carmakers have long been insular places, wary of outsiders.

Hulsey's story also illustrates a side of law enforcement culture rarely visible to the public: Police agencies, even large ones, often are insular places where co-workers know intimate details about one another and where officers' reputations--sometimes accurate, sometimes distorted--follow them wherever they work.

Yet Fenwick remains an insular place.

The reservation is an insular place, and nearly everyone there is related.

Even a few miles away in such an insular place, he would be considered an outsider.

One thing I learned was that this is a deceptively insular place.

Still, says Jacqueline Kyle Kall, the island's third-generation real estate agent-doyenne, it's an intimate if not insular place.

Long Island is sort of an insular place as well, and there are people who feel very comfortable in that environment".

It has been an American impulse since the Puritans: feeling the world racing in the wrong direction and withdrawing to a small, insular place to start over.

Philadelphia is in some ways the world's biggest small town, and, in such an insular place, St. Joseph's-Villanova offers the classic parochial antagonism.