As is usual with Insular work, there was no use of gold or silver leaf in the manuscript.
The movie captures the tantalizing proximity of Manhattan and all it represents to the insular, working-class reality of Bay Ridge but also takes note of the distance between the various worlds a single city contains.
A certain caricature of the Brexit voter has become commonplace in the British media: the defensively insular, working-class man with authoritarian instincts and a desperate pining for days of yore.
A mother and son's return to the Scottish isle reopens old wounds within a community so insular and untalkative that working out what happened becomes a detective story.
That is often a surprisingly insular process.
As can be the case with some of the most insular "detective" work of this kind, ultimately the blog offers no real explanation as to what any of it means, leaving you none the wiser unless you're incredibly well-versed in both birth charts and numerology.
(Juilliard regularly sends out students to perform at this unlikely locale; it's a welcome gesture from an institution that is working to overcome its insular reputation).
Until fairly recently, when gentrifiers began slipping in, the neighborhood was Irish, Catholic and working class, and famously proud, insular, stubborn and independent.
When I was eight our family moved from the insular Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois to a racially mixed working class neighborhood in Milwaukee.
The rest of the country may be experiencing breadlines and economic despair, but, in the insular Hollywood where Vera works as a maid, the furniture is plush and the champagne flows — though Vera's employer, the B-movie actress Gloria Mitchell Stephaniee J. Block), prefers gin.
The work is often hard and the lack of thanks and appreciation tends to make one somewhat insular leaving one deflated and ignored … Little do people realise how much they need us," one British cleaner, working in healthcare, told researchers.
