Sentence examples for insularity about from inspiring English sources

One might be forgiven for suspecting a certain smug insularity about both the Decemberists and their fans, what with the audience participation in numbers about whales swallowing seafarers and wild enthusiasm for songs about "chimbley sweeps".

This insularity was about to end, with the playing of the 1958 N.F.L. championship game on Dec. 28 between the Giants and the Baltimore Colts.

There is something about such insularity -- something about the press of the mountains and the changelessness of the citizenry and the somnolence of the days -- that causes differences to be amplified rather than dissipated.

Our conversation, however brief, confirmed my fears about the insularity of the discussion about Afghanistan.

For many, his quest had come to say as much about Japanese provincialism and insularity as as it did about baseball.

There is the lack of the Nobel, for example, which became identified, five or so years ago, with America's lack of a Nobel in literature, following remarks about insularity made by the then permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl.

Complaints about White House insularity are as pronounced as ever.

Europeans, who often complain about Americans' insularity and conservatism, are much less welcoming.

A Mafia tale is usually a tale about ethnic insularity, a lingering reflection of the immigrant experience in a vast new nation.

Jan Wiczkowski is dead right about English insularity, arrogance and its politicians' failure to make their arguments in any other language than English.

He writes: "Should she depart, it may say more about the insularity of the movie industry and its resistance to innovation than her marketing talents, which by many accounts are considerable".