Sentence examples for national insularity from inspiring English sources

Oddly enough, deepening integration across the global economy may help increase the attraction of old-time national insularity.* J. Tomlinson, "The economic basis of Scottish nationhood c.1870-2014".

The irrationalities of nations are inextricably linked to the permanent national virtues: the insularity of America is linked to its openness.

These discourses have traditionally configured the blood economies through notions of gift and altruism, the community and the commons, national solidarism and belonging, insularity from the market, and a discourse that presents donations as surplus 'waste'waste

Insularity is the national plague.

If internal problems and insularity mean either plays a smaller role, the world will suffer.

Small nations cannot afford the insularity of the great.

He had acquired a kind of invincibility and insularity that left him ill-prepared for the national stage.

The New Zealand literary world, which feels its insularity keenly, greeted news of Ms. Catton's win as a national triumph.

First, non-insular feral and early Neolithic insular populations are required to properly contrast the effects of insularity and feralisation.

British insularity and French pride will always clash but this week, the story of Gatward's feat reminds us that national sensibilities have their limits in times of trouble.

Our insularity was two-fold, being a matter of religion as well as nationality.