Sentence examples for insular views from inspiring English sources

One would hope for access to fiction and nonfiction (preferably translated works from the region) that like the Oscar-winning movie A Separation, would enlarge our context beyond insular views or unexamined assumptions.

Instead, administrators adopted an insular view of professionalism that emphasized crime fighting as the primary function of police work.

It is such an insular view that it's tempting to chuckle and think no more of it.

He says he is waging war against religious intolerance, and an insular view of faith that not only prevents unity among peoples but promotes violence.

It is unfortunate but understandable that people who have achieved these results have an insular view of why they have achieved it -- and why others haven't".

Then a woman from the former Soviet Union, a Jewish immigrant resettled in our community, took her place among us, and in a more direct way, forever altered our insular view of the globe.

It stated: "Many of those who voted to stay in the UK two years ago did so because they wanted to reject a narrow nationalism and its insular view of the world".

No matter how often or how congenially the commentators acknowledged their insular view, the hysterical tone fostered a false sense that the public was teetering on the verge of nervous collapse.

It's no surprise that, as the ensuing carnage escalates, this failing father will be forced to reassess his insular view of the world, but as with all the film's disaster movie tropes, familiarity does not detract from the fun.

It has also led to the militarization of our foreign policy, given a society that perceives American power through a largely martial lens, obsessed with threats, and an ironically insular view of a world the United States has done more to globalize than anyone else.

Such praise is not just insular sentiment.