And the Japanese are not nearly as insular as us: were you to launch a book about Walt Disney over there, its opening chapter would not have to be titled: "Walt Who?" Tezuka, who died 20 years ago this year, is a titanic figure in Japanese pop culture.
The reservation is an insular place, and nearly everyone there is related.
In the lab, insular males were nearly four times as likely to attack other males as mainland males (randomization test: mean difference = 0.210, p < 0.001).
There are, however, enormous social consequences for not believing in Creationism if you live in an insular fundamentalist community, which nearly all Creationists do.
His art, nearly up to the end, was not insular, and kept signifying different things for different people of different cultures and races.
Chinatown has traditionally been an insular community, and that insularity was magnified immediately after the attack with the truck restrictions and broadcasting interruptions, which resulted in a nearly complete Chinese-language news blackout on an event half a mile away.
The city had lost a bit of its island character and some of its insular mentality in 1846, when a causeway nearly 2 miles (3 km) in length brought the railway across 222 arches from the mainland.
Even Cherie Davis's detractors respect her for this: As a single mother, she determinedly navigated the insular world of American speedskating -- where nearly everyone is as white as the ice itself -- and facilitated her son's becoming the first black man to win an individual event at a Winter Olympics.
Validation from the fine-arts world — a much more elitist, insular place than pop's mass market — shouldn't matter anywhere nearly as much as stirring the passions of the little monsters.
Consistent with this assumption, our results were nearly as clear-cut when the analyses were extended to right-handers, with insular volumes becoming much better indices of such relationships.
PAGE A4 BIG ELECTION VICTORY FOR IRAQI SECT The Yazidis, a small and zealously insular sect in Iraq, exploited the country's byzantine electoral rules to win nearly a quarter of the seats in the government of Nineveh, one of the country's largest provinces.
