| 单词 | clannish |
| 例句 | In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They are clannish and they stick together, speaking a specialized language. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Beatles people, even for how voluminous their number is, can be clannish. The return of “Yellow Submarine”: Why even people who aren’t Beatles mega-fans love it 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, the story of how soccer escaped its gritty, clannish, working-class roots and became an enormous global industry is a central cultural and economic parable of our time. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z One notable example would be Ben Affleck's new heist-o-rama The Town, in which Boston at its most fiercely clannish remains front and centre throughout. Were Boston critics right to go to town on Ben Affleck's cop thriller? 2010-09-24T11:10:00Z It is sad that we have allowed ourselves to degenerate into a clannish and nativist population who believes that anyone of color in this country speaks English as a second language is here illegally. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Warned off by the clannish community, she auditioned young men whose ethnic background was Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Middle Eastern, before eventually deciding on an unknown black actor from Leeds called James Howson. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Mary, already a widow and still in her teens, alights from France as an avatar of worldliness and modernity in a rugged, clannish country. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z His enemies are preening, scornful and often foolish noblemen, out to promote clannish interests or reconciliation with Rome. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z It’s not always gentle, but it is clannish to the end. ‘You buy a lot of flowers and tampons': things you only know when you have seven daughters 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z O’Hanley compared the home’s current vibe to “Animal House”: “We’re quite clannish in that regard, but it’s not deliberate — it just seems to shake out that way.” Alvvays, a Dreamy Indie-Rock Band, Cranks Up the Volume 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Any hopes of clannish togetherness over pasta are dashed in the first scene. Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Pocatello,’ With T. R. Knight 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The French are fussy and snobbish, the Indians clannish and boisterous, and the movie is in such a hurry to avoid real conflict that it also avoids suspense, drama and emotional impact. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z West Indians were seen as less satisfactory when they "acted clannish" or "kept to themselves": in other words, when they failed – like the despised "Pakis" – to assimilate into British culture. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-04-07T07:00:01Z The more I observe, the warier I grow of privatized efficiency: in time, it indulges clannish thought. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It is equally true that the inhabitants of any society that has moved beyond the clannish and the tribal do not accept family connections and hereditary entitlements as adequate qualifications for a job. Is nepotism ever acceptable? 2011-04-09T23:05:55Z Far from it -- she depicts Umay's clannish and patriarchal family, which is divided between Istanbul and Berlin, as a cruel and inexorable machine determined to crush her resistance. "When We Leave": A Muslim wife breaks away 2011-01-27T01:30:00Z Without aspirations for the future, they are held together by clannish loyalty and racist resentment — an empty sense of white entitlement and a perpetually expanding catalog of grievances. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Classroom rivalries spiral from petty spitefulness to murder amid the clannish insularity and vested interests of coastal Norfolk: it's a wonderfully atmospheric read from an author who gets better with every book. Christmas gifts 2012: the best crime and thriller books 2012-11-30T22:55:05Z They brought their clannish, violent, independent culture, which had evolved over seven centuries of border warfare. Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z University officials who bought into longstanding stereotypes of Jews as clannish, conniving, and socially undesirable worried that admitting Jews would taint the reputation of the schools. Why do colleges have legacy admissions? It started as a way to keep out Jews. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z It was there that he developed his checkerboard model, examining the interactions among various groups at the internment camps: the “clannish” Nisei; children of Japanese immigrants; more reclusive detainees; and camp administrators. Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Was Mr. Murdaugh an abnormal holdover from a vanishing, clannish South Carolina culture where small groups of wealthy white men held special privilege? With Murdaugh’s Conviction, a Century of Influence Unravels 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The research by the Anti-Defamation League includes rare detail about the particular nature of antisemitism, how it centers on tropes of Jews as clannish, conspiratorial and holders of power. Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z They were prejudiced against Jews, whom they viewed as clannish grinds — and unmanly, morally deficient, grasping and unattractive to boot. Harvard, Asian Americans and Jews: Behind the Supreme Court's affirmative action case 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z As each story revolves around the perils and power of racial or clannish identity, their sequels would naturally call for advances in inclusion of all kinds. Column: What color is an elf? Or a Sea Snake? And why do you care? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Because of the clannish nature of African society, “we” was associated with the village and family members, while “they” included everyone else. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z What happened next was a preview of how clannish politics would become. The death of the moderate in WA politics 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Vance attributes his grandparents' clannish and protective behavior to those roots. A day of reckoning for Big Pharma: The elegy that Appalachia really needs 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Cal’s clannish neighbors aren’t the welcoming sort, but gradually some of them appear to warm to him, sharing stories and hard liquor at the village pub. Review: French’s ‘The Searcher’ offers vivid, poetic prose 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Gendrot describes a “clannish” system that ensures officers close ranks to protect their own, leading to a sense of impunity. French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z For much of the world, Mr. Varadkar is a symbol of Ireland’s leap from its clannish, Catholic past to a tolerant, multiracial modernity. For the Irish, Varadkar May Have Won Brexit, but He Lost the War at Home 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z To Trump, the belief that Jews are foreign interlopers who use their wealth to serve their own clannish interests is not a negative — as it is for traditional anti-Semites — but rather a positive. Perspective | Trump keeps pushing anti-Semitic stereotypes. But he thinks he’s praising Jews. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Another Dead paradox: For decades, the culture surrounding the band remained astonishingly vast yet devoutly clannish — a balancing act that Animal Collective, despite dazzling attempts, never achieved with its following. Opinion | After a long, strange trip . . . all your indie faves sound like jam bands now 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Twitter is very clannish and ideological, and it feels like a platform for self-promotion and virtue trumpeting more than anything else. The Must-Have When Reporting on Disasters: A Satellite Phone 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The characters in this movie — as in a lot of Farr’s other scripts — are clannish, and fiercely protective of their own territory. Stream Netflix’s horror film from the creator of Amazon’s Hanna 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z To a faintly embarrassing extent, what we have here are the components of a basic whodunnit: the lonely location, the clannish secrets, and the herrings that grow redder by the minute. Ex Appeal in “Everybody Knows” 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Trump’s clannish management style is also a factor in the Saudi decision. Analysis | For Trump, the bottom line on Saudi Arabia takes precedence over human rights 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “It’s very open, very friendly. West Virginians are, by-and-large, nice people. I was concerned when we moved first north to Spencer that it was going to be clannish, or ‘we don’t welcome strangers’. Rev. David Hall finds purpose, happiness in ministry 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, understands the integrating power of identity — “we’re clannish creatures,” he writes — but also recognizes its bent toward destructive social hierarchies. Identity politics may divide us. But ultimately we can’t unite without it. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1817, Walter Scott informed his friend Washington Irving, who was visiting Scotland, that it wasn’t safe for local teams to play against each other: “the old clannish spirit was too apt to break out.” How We Watch Soccer Now 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z They were stereotyped as loud and uncultured and even worse, suspected of being in a criminal, clannish underworld. Education is the beacon that lights our path forward in America 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z While several neighbors have said they thought of the family as clannish and reclusive, they were never worried enough to call the police. California Girl’s Escape From ‘Human Depravity’ Led to Rescue of 12 Siblings 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z But the clannish mentality has often ill served him during his stay in government. Clannish mentality may do in Jared Kushner 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Her aides, often close personal friends in the National Front’s clannish culture, reject this view. Marine Le Pen, Polished but Frank, Heads to Finale in French Election 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z This equanimity has been of particular use in his current assignment covering the Front National, the clannish party of the French far-right, which has been warring with the news media for four decades. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z That “coal miner mentality” is disparaged by some and perhaps it is true that some worked too hard for too little, were somewhat clannish and sometimes impolite. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z From a Chinese perspective, Kushner’s role in the White House is a clannish arrangement that they know well. Can Trump Match Xi Jinping’s Game? 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s possible to thrive in this system as a member of a clan — the Roosevelts, the Kennedys and the Bushes — but it’s not possible to survive in this system if your mentality is entirely clannish. Clannish mentality may do in Jared Kushner 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z His chief ideological adviser, Stephen Bannon, openly yearns for a more closed, clannish America. Trumpism is very familiar to Europeans 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The local people in Saint-Cere are close and clannish - the authorities in the nearby cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse are regarded with a degree of suspicion, and Paris is practically seen as a foreign capital. Grandfather of populism Poujade who shook France and the world - BBC News 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Many of the traits we share, therefore, have not been bred out of us: devotion to and protection of family, territoriality, tribal or clannish behavior, fear of "the other." Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z From a Western perspective, the clannish interlocking relationships and secrecy of their tribal culture are the antithesis of the corporate world. Latest skirmish in war to control international travel: Has the Fly America Act been violated? 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It had not managed to create strong institutions, relying instead on clannish relationships among the country’s rich and powerful individuals. Reforming Ukraine After the Revolutions 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z First and foremost, though, Vance’s book is a memoir about growing up hardscrabble and white in clannish, insular communities in Kentucky and Ohio. Donald Trump Trump sees the invisible people 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z But Muslims at this clannish organization also described being caught between two worlds: the agency they serve and the communities from which they come. As the nation debates the place of Islam, the CIA’s Muslim officers fight terrorism 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z For much of America’s history, Catholics were among the main targets of bigotry, often depicted as clannish, superstitious and loyal to a foreign power. This land is our land 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Chile’s clannish business lobbies are wrong to oppose all change. Damage control in Chile 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But not everyone is applauding his candor — the famously clannish Kennedy family is apparently not pleased with the book, particularly its depiction of the author’s parents, Joan Kennedy and the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s tell-all memoir causes family rift 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Money pools are clannish, with members of a given hui typically coming from the same region of China or even from the same village. A Chinatown Bank Accused of Fraud 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z If we cleave to the herd - and moreover, stay right in its very core, rubbing shoulders with our clannish fellows - we'll escape being picked off, randomly, by that apex predator - the unexpected. A Point of View: The joy of doing the same thing over and over again - BBC News 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z He cited the company’s isolation, its clannish board and a deep-rooted hostility to environmental regulations among its engineers. Problems at Volkswagen Start in the Boardroom 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Ordinary Indonesians are much more clannish than their American counterparts. What's Wrong with Dynastic Politics? 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Naturally, a pall of silence engulfs this clannish, cliquey atoll, owing in no small part to the legal standing of its foreign contingent. Thailand's Septic Isle: Backpackers and Bloodshed on Koh Tao 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “Maybe there’s something kind of evolutionary about it, something kind of clannish.” New Apps Take a Swipe at Facebook 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Teaching is a collegiate, sometimes clannish profession, and conference speeches often show their irritation at the opportunistic interventions of politicians, annoyed that everyone else seems to know better how to do their job. Why is teaching the most unionised job? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Alaskans take a fierce, clannish pride in their Alaska-ness and the romance of the rugged individual, real or imagined. Midterm madness: the politics of snowmobiles and chickens 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z His children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all sang his song, and they were clannish. In Darwin’s Footsteps 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But his use of words like “tribal,” “atavistic” and “clannish” to describe Arab peoples rankled some. Fouad Ajami Is Dead at 68; Expert in Arab History 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The ecstatic cheers that greeted the announcement spoke volumes about Egypt’s disenchantment with the clannish and tin-eared administration that Sisi sent packing. Sisi Can Run for President 2014-01-28T03:05:22Z The ecstatic cheers that greeted the announcement spoke volumes about Egypt’s disenchantment with the clannish and tin-eared Muslim Brotherhood administration that Sisi sent packing. Egyptian Military OK's Sisi to Run for President 2014-01-28T00:35:26Z From deep inside South Boston, the city’s clannish blue-collar Irish neighborhood, Bulger’s gang oversaw a network of loan sharks and gambling rackets. Mob Boss Whitey Bulger Gets Two Life Sentences 2013-11-14T16:05:25Z These new residents are driving Boston’s economic future, but most of the political power still rests in the city’s clannish outer neighborhoods. Culture Clash in Boston Mayor Race 2013-11-05T14:35:25Z One of them was a man who, in the clannish manner of the Rockaways, asked to be referred to by his nickname, Leaper. Montauk Comes to Queens 2013-08-02T21:29:22Z Buyers were allowed to customize their bikes online and install lucrative add-ons at the factory rather than at motorcycle dealerships, often perceived as forbiddingly clannish. Analysis: As boomers age, Harley hunts for younger riders 2013-06-21T12:05:07Z And they were very clannish: they’d sit together, eat together, sing together and nobody got into the clique. The Rail: Q. and A. With John Nerud: Still Saratoga Dreaming at 100 2013-06-14T10:27:45Z Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Openly gay men remain an unsurprising rarity in the insular, clannish and occasionally juvenile world of professional sport. Orlando Cruz becomes first boxer to announce he is gay 2012-10-04T16:21:15Z Nothing demonstrates the clannish feeling of North Britain as this does. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z This was done in spite of the fact that these Welshmen were avowedly clannish. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z But access to those buyers is controlled by the clannish merchants who congregate on the outskirts of Lagos at the Alaba International Market, the distribution hub of the African movie business. The Making of Nigeria?s Film Industry 2012-02-23T22:43:02Z As we proceed, the lovely and opulent dale, once the scene of clannish strife, presents an appearance of peaceful beauty, pervaded everywhere with the sentiment of Burns. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The men are industrious, thrifty, clannish, domestic, and not given to vices, except that of intoxication, when they have the means and opportunity, and the women are hardworking and chaste. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Fine people they are, of heavy countenance and magnificent frame; very conservative in their habits, very clannish in their intimacies, and even today living from preference in tents. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Wukan, with its clannish unity and big stake in rising land values, is an example of the kind of slow-burning discontent that is corroding party power at the grassroots. China villagers defy government in standoff over death 2011-12-15T12:14:30Z Gopnik, who grew up here and is a Canadiens fan, sees hockey as the most creative sport, but also “the most clannish, most given to brutal tribal rules of insult and retribution.” Hockey?s History, Woven With Violence 2011-12-10T19:30:29Z The only patriotism—if patriotism it can be called—was clannish and communal. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z You remember what I told you about her clannish feeling—how she loves to quietly exalt her family name?... An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The religious bond cancelled all distinctions of rank and pedigree; it did away, theoretically, with clannish feuds, contests for honour, pride of race—things that lay at the very root of Arabian chivalry. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Naturally so clannish a woman as Mrs. Gano had not let the years go by without much solicitude on behalf of her orphan grandchild. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z “Donetsk is a very specific, clannish political culture,” said Mr. Wilson, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Memo From Kiev: For Ukrainian Leader, Disparate Paths to Cross 2011-10-11T02:45:30Z But he was also shunned by others in the clannish Queens legal fraternity, who did not forgive his transgressions. Michael G. Dowd Has Spent Career Defending Battered Women 2011-10-03T02:10:09Z There was, at any rate, nothing clannish about their reading. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Wonderfully wise they are too, and very strong, and very proud and “clannish.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z There is that clannish feeling that comes out strong at such a time ... The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z It’s a case of once we used to be snobbish at Wayland Hall, but now we’re clannish. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z "The Welsh, my dear lady, are as clannish in that way as the French; they'll do anything for 'my nephew.'" The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z "Oh, he may be all right; but it isn't like you, Davy MacDougall, to tell all you know to strangers, even if they do happen to have Scotch names—you clannish old goose!" Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z "Power in France is very clannish," he said. French website sends flowers to maid in DSK case 2011-05-23T17:11:18Z The clannish feeling loves to keep alive the memory of the departed; and one might judge that it has the gift of “powetry,” and delights in epitaphs. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Our own gang is just about as clannish as the others. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z Now, the Irish, my dear boy, the Irish are never conventional; they are clannish, provincial, peculiar, but never conventional. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z People of the same blood are clannish when away from their own land. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Moreover, Bolland, an out-and-out Dissenter, was clannish enough to speak of “our” parson, meaning thereby the vicar of the parish, a gentleman whom he held at arm’s length in politics and religion. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Their energy, he thinks, comes from their Teutonic or Saxon blood; their indomitable perseverance is a fruit of Calvinism, added to which they are clannish, or mutual helpers one of another. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z His wives loved each other as sisters, and dwelt together in peace and unity; while his children, especially the males, sons of various mothers, clung together with an affection all but clannish in its intensity. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Few groups are as clannish as the city's firefighters, many of whom have the time to work second jobs. Hey, Chicago, Say Hello to Your Next F#@*ing Mayor 2011-02-17T08:00:00Z Nor is that great poetry or literature of ecstasy of a high order which is purely tribal or clannish in feeling; nor when chauvinistic and full of hatred for all other peoples. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z One part of the country through which I passed to-day is settled chiefly by Highlanders, who bring hither all their clannish attachments, and their thrifty, dirty habits—add also their pride and their honesty. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z The Bachs not only displayed a happy contentedness, indispensable for the cheery enjoyment of life, but exhibited a clannish attachment to each other. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z "They are more clannish in the Highlands than on the Border," replied the old lord. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z This Cornish folk, clannish but kindly, has of late years been decreasing. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z They are conscious of a clannish, slightly patronising air about The Hill, which is notably absent in other stories which tell the tale of a particular school. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z The rest are deciding whether to embrace the C.I.V.C.’s mandate, which is voluntary but carries special force in this clannish community. Champagne Producers Aim for 'Greener' Bottle 2010-08-31T17:52:00Z The country didn’t really begin to transcend its clannish roots and regional dialects until after World War II; even today, displays of national pride are reserved for World Cup victories and little else. From Taxis to Textiles, Italy Chooses Tradition Over Growth 2010-07-31T20:01:00Z "What!" said Tempest, "and the Scotch so clannish?" The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Outsiders look at our clannish politics and ask why the Conservatives cling to Lord Ashcroft and Labour continues to listen to Whelan when they bring nothing but disrepute to their parties. Unions could be such a force for good | Nick Cohen 2010-03-21T00:06:00Z It is a clannish tree, so to speak; when found near to those of other species, it groups itself in clumps apart from them. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Universal suffrage, clannish races, social classes, diversified interests, seem to explain and justify the presence of the party “machine” and its boss. Races and Immigrants in America They were her children, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren; and she loved them all, with one great love, with a clannish love. Small Souls They were still jealous of him with that easily aroused jealousy of south and north which in Spain divides even the clannish gipsy. The Firebrand They had the character of being clannish and able to hold their own. Mary Laird M'Wharry was a true Highlander—he had much of that clannish feeling which is peculiar to the Celt. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 In all these Denominational Houses there is an absence of clannish feeling. The Story of Chautauqua The Polynesians are not a very clannish people. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina We are not a clannish people, nor do we desire to build up a Scandinavian nationality in your midst. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant They are clannish in the extreme, and a substitute was always forthcoming. Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies The students were very clannish, and invariably remained in their own sets at the Chaumi�re. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections For the whistling spirits are notoriously clannish; I understood them to wait upon and to enlighten kinsfolk only, and that the medium was always of the race of the communicating spirit. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The tribal or clannish spirit tends to manifest itself in many forms, but in all its varieties there is a common factor—that of isolation. Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919 "Those women over there are as clannish as crows." The Plow-Woman She was of a proud, clannish people, with Mongolian ancestry and a Buddhist background which had not been too deeply scarred by the political pressures from Western Russia. Where I Wasn't Going But the Cossacks, to a certain degree, are clannish–they do not take kindly to those not of their kind. The Boy Allies with the Cossacks Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians But although there was a tendency to sectional and clannish relations in society, this became much improved by the communal associations for political and economic life. History of Human Society Men from the same locality or district, when they go to live in foreign communities, are drawn together by a clannish sentiment—a manifestation of their inherited tribal instincts. Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919 When they meet abroad, they fall upon each other’s necks in spirit; even at home there is a kind of clannish intimacy in their talk. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 These actor-managers are all so clannish, and they have their own women.” Berenice It is at least a curious thing, to conclude, that the races which wander widest, Jews and Scots, should be the most clannish in the world. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) So far the assertion that the Semites are naturally monotheists is true; but the same is true of all totemistic or clannish communities. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems He has become clannish and gained the advantages of co�peration. The Meaning of Evolution Of course you know to begin with that the Kane family is very clannish. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The clannish national feeling, closely bordering on the old Keltic principle, procured the nobles at all times numerous and devoted followers: they fought out their feuds among themselves, and then combined anew in free confederacies. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) They are as clannish as a drove of wild hogs, and if one squeals the others will rush to his assistance. True To His Colors The clannish spirit ought to pass, for it is without excuse in these days. Rural Problems of Today In the first place this interesting bird is a clannish fellow. The Meaning of Evolution Then, too, they were a clannish lot and a jealous lot. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America Faenza, recovering his composure, resolved himself swiftly from an Italian in general to a Neapolitan in particular, with a clannish antagonism to alien states. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama They are not usually of a clannish disposition; but, in a matter of this kind, they will be as unanimous in their sympathies, and antipathies too, as they would about the butchering of a bear. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Though, perhaps, a little piqued that a stranger—a mere youth as I then was—should have conquered one of their bullies, these backwoodsmen are not intensely clannish, and Bully Bill was no favourite. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West It is a clannish tree, so to speak; and when found near to those of other species it groups itself in clumps apart from them. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands It is not in a clannish view, For clans are naught to me, But ’tis our ancient Tartan Plaid I dearly love to see. Revised Edition of Poems He had no desire to build a pretentious dwelling—his instinct, his clannish spirit, was too closely bound up in the house of his father and grandfather to derive any pleasure from that. Mountain Blood A Novel We could not join company with these clannish emigrants, without offering some excuse. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness For generations they have made education a feature, have always helped each other, and been extremely clannish, although preserving toward people of other religions a respectful attitude. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan "Is he a gentleman?" but who, in spite of this inherent and clannish trait, manage to make friends with the mammon of No-Family. Ringfield A Novel Happy that nation which, when necessary, can believe in its own, not to exclusion, from clannish pride, but on the basis of that simple canon adopted by the world of sport; “Let the best win.” Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures People divide themselves into classes, and these classes are generally exceedingly clannish. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire In spite of fast trains and electric telegraphs human beings are clannish and local in their interests. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing Nothing is more essentially opposed, though often confounded under the common name of patriotism, than the love of country in a Roman or English sense, and the spirit of clannish jealousy. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Its crack article is always reprinted in another form; and oracular as its pages are deemed by the clannish provincials of Boston, its general contents seldom go down with the public. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 The old college president took Montmorency as his aide, with the clannish instinct of two New Englanders for one another’s company. Dorothy's Travels They seem to be rather clannish and exclusive, in fact, disliking both Swedes and Russians, and rarely intermarrying with them. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland They possess no individuality, no "vision"; they are narrow, self-centred, pompous, clannish—with that clannishness which means only complete self-satisfaction with the clan. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends The attempt to rule that most clannish and suspicious of Mediterranean peoples first called forth the administrative powers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl of Minto. William Pitt and the Great War Till that happened local feeling would always remain stronger than national feeling; the disintegrating forces of family feuds and personal ambitions and clannish loyalty would always outweigh the sense of national unity. Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures One reason of this was that they would always "ship" at a lower rate of wage than Englishmen, and were clannish. The Call Of The South 1908 Everybody heard Loman call you a fool yesterday, and you know our fellows are so clannish that they think, for the credit of the Fifth, something ought to be done.” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Those of the same name were a little clannish, preserving traditions of the family from which their fathers had come, and magnifying its importance. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The representatives of the clannish attachments which made McClellanism a species of Masonry in the army, were there in force. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac Now we have seen something of the clannish propensities of the people of the colonies, and the contractors knew what sort of material they had to deal with. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses But, ordinarily, they were regarded, as a party of mad fellows, more ornamental than useful, and entirely too clannish and factious to be entrusted with power. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War I am not sorry that the white people have been clannish enough and have had race pride enough to protect their own society. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. The Scotch are a splendid people to play to, but then English people, by which I mean English and Scotch alike, are very clannish, and very tender to an old friend. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly On the whole, and taken rightly in their clannish nature, their virtues preponderate over their vices. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II These people are peculiar in many respects, and are distinctively clannish. Folklore as an Historical Science They are national in form and colour, but clannish in opinion. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry It was a caste system with social levels sharply marked off, and families united by clannish ties. The Promised Land So are the frightened sheep clannish when they huddle together in the shelterless field, for protection against the blasts of the pitiless storm. Rabbi and Priest A Story The caste are usually considered rather clannish and morose. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala They have a strong clannish feeling and will readily combine for the support or protection of any member of the caste who may be in need of it. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Only on one occasion did they diverge from their clannish programme in order to attend an informal hop given by Elfreda's friend, Madge Morton, at her father's cottage. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer "Then the Highlanders are as clannish as ever," cried the General. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers So we are clannish; and we love to do the unusual, to break away from the commonplace and routine of our lives. The Mind and Its Education The ghosts are very clannish; as a rule none but people of one particular totemic clan are supposed to for-gather at any one place. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia And he also observed, that "the clannish slavery of the Highlands of Scotland was the single exception to Milton's remark of 'the mountain nymph, sweet Liberty,' being worshipped in all hilly countries." The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Their near kin, the chimpanzees, are equally clannish, but more musical. The Human Side of Animals In most cities the members of the legal profession form a clique, and are very clannish. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City They are clannish, and clash with the Lithuanians and other races. Aliens or Americans? Here is this vast ignorant and purchasable vote—clannish, credulous, impulsive and passionate—tempting every art of the demagogue, but insensible to the appeal of the statesman. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Conservative and clannish families who live far enough apart so that little quarrels can not be born among them to upset this fixed yearly programme usually do this. Green Valley The colored people, as so often happens, lived in a certain section of Scranton, being very clannish in their habits. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight The cabar is the horn, or, rather, the "tine of the first-head,"—no ignoble emblem, certainly, of clannish fury and impetuosity. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century In the corporation, the esprit du corps—the clannish spirit—is sure to master it over public spirit. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society Unfortunately, the gauger did not thoroughly know the people he had to deal with or he would have made allowance for their clannish devotion to each other's interests. Up in Ardmuirland He never tried to get anything for himself that the clannish Mullarkey brood had in their possession, or to which they could with any shred of justice lay claim. The Circus Comes to Town Their clannish habits often irritated their neighbors and led to occasional agitations against "foreigners." History of the United States The Lees were a very affectionate and devoted household, clannish to a degree, and undemonstrative, as mountaineers often are. Holiday Stories for Young People As it happened that the three of us were County Down men, who are somewhat clannish, we soon got talking about the people "at home." The Life Story of an Old Rebel And they were as clannish as the Scotch. Poor Man's Rock He possessed an abiding faith in the endurance of Eugenia's clannish soul that was proof against even the suggestion that it might succumb. The Voice of the People Here is this vast ignorant and purchasable vote—clannish, credulous, impulsive, and passionate—tempting every art of the demagogue, but insensible to the appeal of the stateman. The Art of Public Speaking Brave, swift in execution, terrible in the onslaught, tireless in energy, obedient to superiors, and clannish to a fault,—the abilities of these black soldiers are worthy of a good cause. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The Boers are very much like the Scotch—they are clannish. The Boer in Peace and War Since these days, the spirit that invented and handed down popular song has passed away with the national and clannish feuds which gave rise to the gathering song and the lament. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 They are devoted to their children, strong in their family feeling, even to remote relationships, and clannish in their community life. Democracy and Social Ethics These two societies seem to have the true clannish spirit, and a hatred and rivalry exist between them that remind one of the stories of the Middle Ages. The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The Romanic race tends to absolutism in government; it is clannish; it loves chieftains; it develops a people that crave strong and showy governments to support and plan for them. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) And straightway sought with clannish pride Instruction's voice to hear; Instruction that will bless The world each passing day, For every spot man's feet may press, There may he praise and pray. The Mountain Spring and Other Poems Well, well, little Grey,"—with a forbearing smile,—"she is your sister,—you're a clannish body. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 There was talk of other cow towns, east of Ellisville, west of it, but the clannish conservatism of the drovers held to the town they had chosen and baptized. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains They were very clannish people, fond of their own kin to the last degree. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 They remain, however, very clannish and according to the Federal Industrial Commission, without the "desire to fuse socially." Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making The mill hands and their families were well-paid, thrifty, clannish Swedes, most of them, with a liberal sprinkling of Belgians and Slavs. Half Portions Many difficulties were in the way owing to the clannish feuds of the Afghans and the number of possible claimants for the crown. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) The lads were at that time far too simple-minded and too clannish to feel their pride piqued at this offer, or to take offense at the rude manner in which it was made. The Missing Bride Not a cabinet is formed, but the question of its make-up is discussed from the clannish standpoint. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic They proved much more clannish than the Bohemians and more reluctant to conform to American customs. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Cowboys on the range or in the town are excessively clannish. Wolfville Nights The movement has at bottom everywhere been a hunt after Jewish treasure, embittered by the hatred of the clown for the successful trader, of the individualist native for an alien, clannish, and successful community. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) They had not progressed as Germans in their own country had done but being clannish had remained at the point of development reached at the date of their migration. Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment Have you noticed how social, but clannish, our wild flowers are? The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Something clannish now—one of those ancestral rigs that you are always cherishing ... The Fortieth Door As a family they are like the ancient Scots, clannish—not in a vulgar acceptation of the term, but for the reason that they are kindred souls. Strange Visitors The people are to the last degree clannish; and nothing but the grinding pressure of two mighty Empires has endowed them with political solidarity. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) They are still clannish and have not yet escaped from the mental habits of the Middle Ages. Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment Sociable, scheming, secretive; poor judge of men; lacking seriously in executive ability; decidedly a 'one-man-job' man; does not plan ahead; clannish, narrow-minded; very low intelligence for a foreman. Analyzing Character The branches of these scattered far and near were prominent each in its sphere, and all were intimately bound together by the one passion of clannish allegiance to the family past. The Mettle of the Pasture The plodding, brave, clannish, and cantankerous little community soon ceased to be altogether Scotch. The Long White Cloud If," said Dr. Latimer, "the negro is ignorant, poor, and clannish, let us remember that in part of our land it was once a crime to teach him to read. Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted Like all large organizations, the Second Presbyterian Church was made up of every clique in the social calendar; the obscure circle was as clannish and distinctive in its way as any other group. The Blood Red Dawn Very clannish, lacking absolutely in intelligence, executive ability, frankness; in fact, every attribute that is necessary for a good foreman. Analyzing Character The Scandinavian Mormons are very clannish in their disposition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A burly, patient, kindly-natured Highlander, his Celtic blood helped him to sympathize with the proud, warlike, clannish nature of the Maori. The Long White Cloud There was also an Anti-Secret Confederation, of which General Garfield in his time was the leader; it mixed freely in college politics and was no less clannish than the other fraternities. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 So that as their own villages thus grew around them and only their own dwelt near them, they naturally became as clannish as their descendants have been ever since. Round Anvil Rock A Romance A capable man, secretive and somewhat clannish; is susceptible, however, to other influences and can be developed. Analyzing Character The Morrises were a very "clannish" family, and my grandfather's house was the London centre. Autobiographical Sketches Their activity, though soon deprived of a wide usefulness by pedantry and a clannish spirit, prepared the way for great feats of linguistic reorganization. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Leslie is clannish—her own could never do wrong in her eyes. Anne's House of Dreams It is at least a curious thing, to conclude, that the races which wander widest, Jews and Scotch, should be the most clannish in the world. The Silverado Squatters When they meet abroad, they fall upon each other’s necks in spirit; even at home there is a kind of clannish intimacy in their talk. Memories and Portraits But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother. The Call of the Wild The clannish attachment of the Afghans is rather to the community than to the chief. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 She was clannish as Carlyle himself, yet even her relations are occasionally made to appear ridiculous. Thomas Carlyle Great Maumsey had a vast belief in itself, and was reckoned exclusive and clannish by other places. Delia Blanchflower It remains only to be said that, passionately attached to the customs, the habits of thought of their forefathers, the Highlanders of the Lake Megantic region are intensely clannish. The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy In most cities the members of the legal profession form a clique, and are very clannish. The Secrets of the Great City When I was in India, four years ago, I had a very dear friend in my regiment—a Scotchman; I'm half Scotch myself, you know, and clannish, of course. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story The young men—as is generally the case in religious sects of a rigid and clannish character—were by no means handsome. The Story of Kennett The poorer classes of foreigners in any city are led by similarity of language and occupations to gather into neighborhoods according to their nationality, and the Italians are especially clannish. The Pagans The Scandinavians soon learn our ways and our language, but prior to that they are quite clannish. Remarks "Boys are as clannish as they can be!" said Jess severely. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause Usually, the female portion ruled the house, and were doubtless clannish enough about it. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines The devotion of the young chief of Clan Quhele's foster father and foster brethren in the novel is a trait of clannish fidelity, of which Highland story furnishes many examples. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day It was not always safe to have even the game of foot-ball between villages, the old clannish spirit was too apt to break out. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey A microcosmic illustration of that clannish spirit of Albania which he had spent a lifetime in endeavouring to direct to nobler ends! Old Calabria The landlady, Mrs Jones, is a widow, or grass-widow, Welsh, of course, and clannish; flat face, watery grey eyes, shallow, selfish, ignorant, and a hypocrite unconsciously—by instinct. While the Billy Boils The truth is that in those days the Parliamentary reporters were a very clannish set—almost, indeed, a close corporation. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 She had a difficult task, the people were clannish, and their prejudice was not easily overcome. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Bengalis are remarkably clannish: they will toil and plot to advance the interests of anyone remotely connected with them by ties of blood. Tales of Bengal They were clannish in the best sense of the word. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter It is not clannish, or even national, it is essentially the lonely temper of a man independent to the verge of melancholy. England and the War One authority told me it had been the castle of the chief of the clan Doherty, once ruling lord here in the clannish times. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland The Welshman remained a Celt and preserved his language and his clannish spirit, though local magnates, such as the family of Wynn, filled the place in his heart once occupied by the chief. Lectures and Essays One centre of the insidious agitation is the fell goddess Káli’s shrine near Calcutta; another is Puna, which has for centuries been a stronghold of the clannish Máráthá Brahmans. Tales of Bengal They are clannish, tend to form colonies of their own race in which their language, customs, and ideals are preserved. Sociology and Modern Social Problems Most of the immigrants are extremely clannish, for a. Practical Argumentation It was too spontaneous, one would almost say, too unconscious, ever to be clannish. Proserpine and Midas There arose a clannish feeling which prevented the tradesman from defrauding one of his own class. Without Prejudice The others said we were clannish and stuck-up, but we didn't care. The Desired Woman And then, too, he's as clannish as a Harvard graduate, and don't associate with nobody out of his own set. The Silver Horde It would bar to a great extent the clannish immigrants, as a. Practical Argumentation Thus the alien may be vexed by what he thinks the mere clannish enthusiasm of praise, in Scott's countrymen. Guy Mannering — Complete "We have been wanting to have an old-time frolic, but didn't wish to seem selfish and clannish." Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School Our neighbourhood was what is called very clannish. My Young Alcides It is said by some that sanctification makes people "clannish." The Heart-Cry of Jesus My auditor contrived to get one ear entirely clear of the bison's skin, and nodded approbation of what fell from me, with a proper degree of human and clannish spirit. The Monikins Her splendid sympathy was the reverse of clannish; it was applied to every mortal who crossed her path. Australia Felix The legal profession in France is far more "clannish" than with us, for lawyers have always played a great part in the history of France. The Days Before Yesterday The Chinese seem not so much broadly patriotic as provincial or clannish, and the "Hoeys," or secret societies, belong to the different southern provinces. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither In clannish tribes, therefore, and particularly among the Celts, the personal freedom of the lowest clansman was the rule, deprivation of individual liberty the exception. Irish Race in the Past and the Present No antidote served so well to counteract the poison of clannish rivalry as did their enthusiasm and their constructive energy. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway The Scotch-Irish were so clannish that they had ideas of founding a separate province on the Susquehanna. The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware It would be difficult to name any eminent man in whom national feeling and clannish feeling were stronger than in Sir Walter Scott. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Those Swedes are very clannish indeed, over there at Pickletown; but some of them bank with us, and I am sure they will be on the lookout for the girl. Janice Day the Young Homemaker For these various offices and their inherent rights were all derived from the universally prevailing family or clannish disposition. Irish Race in the Past and the Present The three had proved handy with their fists, and clannish; they had fought pitched forecastle battles with the gangster clique and won a sort of neutrality of independence for themselves. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Most persons in their marriages seek after wealth or power; or they are clannish, and choose those who are like themselves,—the temperate marrying the temperate, and the courageous the courageous. Statesman For even little Indian girls had their "dearest friends," quite as much as have our own clannish young school-girls of to-day. Historic Girls They are the Caribs of the North—strong, artful, self-sufficient, clannish, honorable within the laws of their race, holding in lenient contempt neighboring tribes who bow to the measure of Society's tapeline. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million But the clannish spirit chiefly showed itself in the authority and rights of every chieftain in his own territory. Irish Race in the Past and the Present To the northwest are many Canadian-French, clannish in spite of their long residence in America, and to the north are Irish and first-generation Americans. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes They seemed clannish, too, with an unemployed or free-labour sort of isolation. Over the Sliprails As a result, driven back upon themselves from every side, the traitors and their families became clannish. The Iron Heel Then, again, the old clannish local spirit of the old farming town, rooted in years way back of the goldfields, would have been too strong for the Government, or even a rush of wild diggers. Joe Wilson and His Mates The forms, the offices, the very spirit and language of the Roman administration disappeared; in their place was reconstituted the traditional authority of the clannish chieftains formerly abolished by Roman power. Irish Race in the Past and the Present |
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