Sentence examples for insular societies from inspiring English sources

And such insular societies typically maintain an equal watchfulness on the images and the information that they allow to trickle out to the observing world.

Although Eve brings too much personal baggage into this case and becomes too agitated to carry off a cool professional job, her anger informs her insights into the depravities that lie buried in insular societies.

Ever since Japanese started to live in the West and travel there in large numbers in the 1970's, people have been predicting dramatic changes for one of the world's most insular societies.

At this point, McDermid tosses convention aside and gets to the heart of the issues that really concern her: the feudal mentality of insular societies like Scardale, tribal definitions of guilt and punishment, and the expiation of sin through the almost priestly functions of a conscience-driven hero.

The forging of close relations with America by insular societies like Saudi Arabia that behave as if they had sworn to prove that Islam and democracy are mutually irreconcilable is no encouragement to those working to establish secular democracies in Islamic countries.

That flash of obviousness constituted apostasy in the insular, parochial society of the musical ­vanguard.

Equally convincing is his meticulous re-creation of life within the insular society of a mid-level amusement park.

The island is barely described, existing to provide an isolated and insular society rather than a distinctive setting.

In an insular society where anyone who hadn't been dissed by Doc Disch couldn't be said to have arrived, he had his standards.

They have also laid bare the fault lines that divide this insular society that resides some 95 miles northwest of St . Louis

The insular society, founded half a century ago, has long focused on research and is hardly practiced at shaping public opinion.