Sentence examples for insular tradition from inspiring English sources

But klezmer was never an insular tradition.

At-home trattorias are not the insular tradition they used to be in Sicily.

After the disillusion has set in there's usually a retreat to an older, more insular tradition.

It is a quieter re-evaluation than what occurred during the'60s and '70s, which came complete with manifestoes, but the sense of a restless repositioning against an insular tradition is similarly vibrant.

And French cinema has a long and at times insular tradition.

The scandals underscore the degree to which sumo, an insular, tradition-bound world long shielded from scrutiny by its special cultural status, has fallen out of step with changes in the rest of Japan.

For decades, Siena has negotiated a fragile relationship with the world outside, drawing on the most cosmopolitan of industries – modern finance and tourism – to sustain its insular, private traditions.

For decades, Siena has negotiated a fragile relationship with the world outside, drawing on the most cosmopolitan of industries modern finance and tourism to sustain its insular, private traditions.

West Ham also have an insular and familial tradition, and geographically the club is ensconced in our capital's own petit gangland.

But recently, Ms. Blankenship has become more anxious about completing her work and making sure there is some record of this insular tribe's traditions before they vanish under the pressures of modern life.

Taken together, the recommendations would transform a New York institution that had fallen behind others in the seafaring world and been victimized in part by its own insular culture, in which tradition and practice trumped formal procedures and innovations adopted elsewhere.