| 单词 | insularity |
| 例句 | "The city was making its own statement, by not seeing," she says, but the image also alludes to Norway's insularity, and a blithe indifference to the financial crises in Europe and elsewhere. Singer Jenny Hval: 'I'm so cruel' 2013-04-18T05:00:01Z One of the trademarks of Comedy Central’s political comedy has been its insularity. Larry Wilmore Attempts to Be Seriously Funny 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.” Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But the overall impression is of a nearly autistic, self-reflexive insularity. Art Review: Lucy R. Lippard and Conceptual Art, at Brooklyn Museum 2012-10-18T20:10:23Z Her intoxication with the culture — without her Japanese pals losing sight of her foreignness — felt like a gentle rebuke of the incurious insularity of a movie like “Lost in Translation.” You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But there was a downside to the insularity of their relationship that crept up on them. Vows: Christy Ely and Peter Tiboris: A Reunion That Was a Long Time Coming 2014-01-17T18:41:34Z Chandra Kurt, a Swiss wine writer and consultant who also has her own line of Swiss-produced wines, speculates that her country's insularity about its wine is keeping in the national character. The wine so good the Swiss won't share it 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z But the insularity of New Orleans society may ultimately be to blame for so many conflicting interests serving each other at the same time. In New Orleans, scandal tarnishes a jazz star and the libraries he was asked to help 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z And as a thinker and intellectual, he would have loathed the wilful misinformation and visceral insularity that both campaigns embodied. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “The Young Pope” echoes a larger phenomenon, of which our election was just one part: the movement toward retreat and insularity in the West, an attitude that Pius sees as a holy mandate. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The making of art often happens in insularity — inside of our thoughts and bodies. The Offing, a new online literary magazine, launches in Los Angeles 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Nothing on the surface, but dig deeper and you'll find the same proud insularity, daily commitment to work and openness to the grace of inspiration. The Wooster Group finds grace in 'Shaker Songs' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Here, though, interviewed along with scores of PayPal personnel — sometimes known as “the PayPal mafia” for their ruthless insularity — they are just two moneyed young men trying to lasso the moon, and often missing. Ambitions and Emotions Run Hot in ‘The Founders,’ a History of PayPal 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s born from a collective sense of insularity. A Nostalgic Look at Independence Days of Yesteryear 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, it highlights the insularity of too much contemporary writing, in which we are asked to see the world, again and again, through an individual's eyes as opposed to a collective frame. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Moselle did not set out to make a movie about insularity and cinema, much less one that doubled as a social experiment. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Admittedly, it’s also not Moonlight, a film being presented by many critics as a neat corrective to the Hollywood insularity the benefits La La Land. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “Washington gives us a tremendous advantage,” Zirinsky said, while noting there would be an effort to report more deeply throughout the country to counter any inside-the-Beltway insularity. Perspective | ‘Time to shake things up’: Norah O’Donnell takes over at ratings-challenged ‘CBS Evening News’ 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z His hapless, bored and obsessive characters, natural liars and fantasists all, may require the insularity of a small, isolated, self-mythologizing world to flourish and self-destruct credibly. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z Part of this admittedly nutty insularity resides in the wonder we have for the physical New York and its beauty. Sunday Reading: American Cityscapes 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z So much of this century’s fanaticism and insularity has rested on a stubborn error about art and religion: Christians like pictures, Muslims don’t. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The map badly needs to be redrawn after so many years of insularity. Does the Booker longlist show that we're expanding our literary horizons? 2012-08-03T23:30:18Z For Mr. Laude and many other protesters the main issue regarding performing arts institutions is not inaccessibility but insularity. Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z Each has previously been the subject of big biographies, but in this account they are interviewed along with scores of PayPal personnel — sometimes known as “the PayPal mafia” for their ruthless insularity. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z You get the sense of an entire community seeking to shake off insularity, and feeling free to vent. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The exhibition grappled with ideas of insularity and the productive value of working in dialogue with, but apart from, the rest of the world. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In fact, it is sometimes argued, Denmark's insularity stems partly from its communality. Something puzzling in the state of Denmark 2012-12-21T22:55:08Z I exaggerate only slightly: British theatre was marked by its cosy insularity and its fog-isolates-Europe attitude towards the continental mainland. X is for xenophobia 2012-05-22T12:27:52Z And its mockery of the egotism and insularity of show folk isn’t exactly original. Comic angst, alive and well on Seattle stages 2013-01-31T23:00:10Z The themes common to both works also remain relevant today: the insularity of rural communities, the erosion of tradition and the exodus of young people to the brighter lights of, in this case, Skipton. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z One obvious explanation might be British insularity as against Continental passions; Mr. Jacobs himself welcomes the influx of southern European and South American early-music performers, given their greater predilection for passion and improvisation. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z In recent decades other institutions have tried hard to rectify the historic problem of insularity. Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z Their own insularity prevents no one in this book from totting up the ethical and empathic deficits of others. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Or does “Soy Isla” have nothing to do with him, the reference merely an accident, which would be an even more profound indication of her insularity? Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z She acknowledged the insularity of the “wives and daughters” argument: People who use the phrase often seem only to understand harm when they picture it befalling their own loved ones. Perspective | AOC’s speech about Ted Yoho’s ‘apology’ was a comeback for the ages 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The title, a somewhat dated synonym for guests, neatly conjures the insularity of a theatrical troupe. Sondheim and the City: In a Rethought ‘Company,’ a Woman Wavers 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 Perhaps the insularity of the worlds Nolan creates is mistaken for coldness. Christopher Nolan: from superheroes to Dunkirk’s small tales of heroism | the Observer profile 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Historians may well look back on these movies as a reflection of their time – a period of unprecedented American exceptionalism and military intervention abroad, but also one marked by xenophobia and insularity. Eli Roth: ‘I miss films where you think the makers were insane’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Schlieker explained that the White Cliffs of Dover, which appear in several works in the exhibition, stand for Britain’s “insularity” and “isolation.” The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The inward-looking focus of much contemporary photography takes on a different air when the insularity becomes a necessity, not a choice. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The insularity of this band, it's almost pathological. Post-punk landscape: Before there was a Nirvana, R.E.M. blazed the trail 2011-09-22T16:34:37Z He presumably intends to send up the insularity of cultured lefties at farmers' markets, but ends up seeming exclusive about class and sneering towards the less well-off. Chris Addison – review 2013-03-31T17:01:01Z And now, increasingly, the arts are part of Canada’s effort to differentiate itself from a larger Western world move toward nationalism and insularity. The state of the arts in Canada 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Over time, that fierce independence morphed into a sort of isolationism, which hardened into insularity. Harvard's first online architecture course: Does it make the grade? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The tightly wound humor and tragedy of her stories, delivered in prose that never draws attention to its graceful wit, demonstrate that every unremarkable family, wrapped in proud insularity, is special. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z A lack of international visibility shouldn't be mistaken for insularity, however. Sounds of Poland – day one: a history of Polish pop in 10 songs 2012-06-06T15:40:40Z Common wisdom has it that a work of autobiography is by nature doomed to insularity. Politics Drove Rebecca Mead From Her Adopted Home and Into Her Next Book 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z There is a pathos, and an odd sort of magic, in élite competitive cheerleading that has something to do with its insularity. The Pathos of “Cheer” and the Extraordinary Deceptions of Cheerleading 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Its dark and muscular wood and leather interior recalls an era of masculine insularity, though these days at least as many of its patrons are female. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z There is, however, no reason to assume that collaboration is by itself a good thing, and plenty of evidence that it can lead to group think and insularity. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Dalrymple refers to the insularity of his upbringing when explaining why, when he encountered India, he fell hopelessly in love. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z The cover of National Review’s Nov. 3 issue quite literally paints Lena Dunham in unflattering terms — the words “cowardice,” “insularity,” “narcissism,” and “sex” are tattooed on her arm in the photo illustration. National Review Cover Story Calls Lena Dunham 'Gutless' For Writing About Her Rape 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Part of what made labels vulnerable was the insularity of their leadership, Knopper says. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Mr. Walker said there is still the persistent problem of insularity; boards are clubs that tend to be homogeneous. At New York Museums, More Minorities on Staff Than on Boards 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The second season in particular has highlighted the great insularity wealth provides the Roys and their ilk. Succession season two finale – battle of the backstabbers: discuss with spoilers 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Funeral buffs, who cherish the literary opportunities of the graveside, will be dismayed at the meagre and predictable insularity of this selection. Farewell words and music reflect a patriotic austerity and insularity 2013-04-13T23:04:44Z In response, the show doubled down on nostalgia and theater-world insularity. Review: Hope and Restraint at the Tonys. Then Came Robert De Niro. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Even in Florence, the producers are determined not to let anything under the Tuscan sun melt the parochial insularity of the “Jersey Shore.” Critic's Notebook: Ciao, Jersey, Hello Florence: No Culture Shock Here 2011-08-05T01:46:32Z Small nations cannot afford the insularity of the great. The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review 2013-06-26T11:00:03Z Wherever “Let ’im Move You” goes, it brings this free outdoor component, a kind of roving rejoinder to the insularity of the theater. Tossing and Catching Rhythms on Stages and City Streets 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z At schools like Goldsmiths and the Glasgow School of Art, and in magazines like Frieze and Afterall, British art was throwing off its old insularity. What’s the Point of the Turner Prize, Anyway? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Is it possible to depict racially insular and casually prejudiced white people in a way that doesn’t promote insularity and prejudice, as “Girls” does? Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Ms. Barr’s fame and affluent insularity — she largely appears in her waterside home in Waimea, Hawaii, with her laid-back boyfriend, Johnny Argent — hobbles her voter contact. Review: Revisiting an Unlikely Campaign in ‘Roseanne for President!’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The Hasidic Jews of Borough Park, Brooklyn, rarely interact with outsiders—they rely upon their own education and justice systems and see their extreme insularity as a means of self-preservation. Out Loud: A Sex-Abuse Scandal in a Hasidic Community 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z They and their sybaritic buddies are smug in their social insularity. Review: A Flock of Shylocks Transforms ‘Merchant of Venice’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Crippled by alcohol or laziness or bad luck, they have little interest in exposing their failings to each other — or to their perennially disappointed mother, that “impossible woman,” with her unshakable superiority, her proud insularity. Anne Enright draws a rich, Irish family saga in ‘The Green Road’ 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Why do we separate the insularity of parenthood from any other act of self-absorption? I do not care about your baby 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z While the past few months forced an insularity on so many of our lives, examining that insularity is another thing entirely, a task best left to the brave or foolhardy. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Australia’s history of high immigration is contrasted with Japan’s insularity. The long road 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z For a time — the 1930s, give or take a few years — these artists linked arms to defend modern American art against the dreariness and insularity of the Depression. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z Both this range and Mr. Glover’s colleagues keep him from the insularity that can plague his performances. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z But the song also hints at the insularity that she hasn’t yet acknowledged. ‘Amélie’ musical's creators bring to the stage a ‘love letter to imagination’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z But the insularity of this approach can make listening to sounds in the dark seem more like a 1960s-style psychedelic experiment than a cutting-edge art happening. Arts: ?Audium? and ?The Wave Organ?: The Sounds of Art 2010-03-28T02:41:00Z Racial prejudice and insularity combined with genius to shape an unusually powerful tradition of musical and theatrical innovation. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z Crume hears it, too, and suggests that such trademarks owed everything to their insularity. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z Was it fear or insularity or television or drugs that shut people in? When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s, well, very English, depicting and critiquing midcentury Britain’s haughty propriety, deep homophobia and posh insularity. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z His generation came of age before French theory and academic insularity destroyed the ability of educated lefties to reach a broad audience. Remembering John Berger: The English art critic helped bring ideas to TV 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z On the xx tour that arrived at Webster Hall on Wednesday night, jj was the main opening act, and each band showed off a very different gift for insularity. Music Review: The xx and jj: Two Ways to Evoke Soul Sounds That Shrug 2010-04-01T21:34:00Z The cruelties of India's caste system and the insularity of China's imperial court are more gently treated than British imperialism, but their consequences are also acknowledged. Amitav Ghosh sails into the Opium War with trilogy finale 'Flood of Fire' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In the long run, though, it was bound to lead to habits of repetition and insularity which would be to the detriment of the local British product. Christopher Lee: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Journeyman 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z But his enthusiastic embrace of the wide world of sports points up by comparison a troubling insularity and crabbed vision in the serious art world. An Appraisal: LeRoy Neiman and the Serious Art World 2012-06-22T22:44:42Z The insularity of this band, it’s almost pathological. R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity 2011-09-21T21:46:00Z The insularity of long-standing ways and longtime residents emerges in a barrage of exemplary scenes and details. “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z There’s a depressing insularity to it — a very specific bubble of determination within the larger, protectively impermeable bubble that is Texas itself. Review | Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ is the documentary that hard-working cheerleaders have long deserved 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s a drama crafted with robotic insularity for the consumption of viewers being rendered robotic at each moment of the soullessly uniform spectacle. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Even the racism turns out to be part of a larger take on Ireland's insularity, eroding identity and inexorable Americanisation – the latter of which adds a self-aware edge to the unlikely crime proceedings. The Guard ? review 2011-08-18T21:25:01Z A sherpa and a shepherd from the Pyrenees will both describe a deep spiritual connection to the land and similar personality traits: insularity, self-reliance, a gift for improvisation, a suspicion of outsiders. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr McArdle added: "The council's lack of openness and transparency has given rise to a culture of insularity and complacency. Internal challenge has been discouraged and external criticism and challenge have been routinely dismissed." Thurrock Council: 'Systemic weaknesses' led to £1.3bn debt 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In movies, as in society at large, good rules foster exceptions, tolerance, diversity, curiosity—the opposite of insularity, of narrow fandom, of passivity—precisely because they don’t presume to impose rigid norms. A Video Discussion of the Best Movies of the Year So Far 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He has little patience for the art world’s insularity, especially conceptual provocations that only make sense to those with an aesthetic theory decoder ring. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Barack Obama was known for his soaring oratory, but also his insularity and aloofness. On the trail, freewheeling Donald Trump counters scripted Ron DeSantis 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The American literary world has tried to bolt for freedom from this era — from its thin veneer of diversity, from its self-dealing insularity, from the selective way it fetishized rule-breaking. Review | A memoir about a godlike father and the literary scene he ruled over 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z She appealed to Alaskans’ insularity, too, channeling mistrust of outsiders like oil companies, fisheries and federal agencies. Sarah Palin Loses as the Party She Helped Transform Moves Past Her 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But terms like “elite” have been used as antisemitic tropes indicating wealth and insularity, Jewish advocates say. Pa. governor candidates deploy religion in contrasting ways 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The insularity associated with Washington is evident in a dinner scene in the days following the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision, which extended individual handgun rights for self-defense. Review | Nina and Ruth: The friendship between a journalist and a justice 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z And yet I can’t be the only bystander to Marvel’s reign over pop culture made cranky by its burgeoning insularity. Review | ‘Ms. Marvel’ offers up a fresh new hero — and more Disney marketing 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Lilly Freer has grown up with this whiteness and what she and others see as widespread intolerance fed by insularity. Did the Buffalo mass shooting suspect's 90% white hometown fuel his hate? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Artists who had been protected by the industry’s insularity found themselves ostracized — including Mr. Camacho, who was the subject of an anonymous Instagram account called “Surviving Toothtaker,” which detailed the accusations against him. ‘A Monster in Our Midst’: How a Tattoo Industry #MeToo Case Collapsed 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But had embracing its geographic insularity and isolation influenced the cultural identity of Australia? An Australia Homecoming, Mixed With Yearning and Trepidation 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Those who criticize China’s increasing insularity are often censored or drowned out by nationalist voices. How China Under Xi Jinping Is Turning Away From the World 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The writing is good enough that the show evokes something of the simultaneous insularity and cosmopolitanism of its Boston setting despite being mostly filmed in Atlanta. Review | In the fantastic new dramedies ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘As We See It,’ it’s never too late to grow up 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Yet she missed the Sacramento Valley— its heat, rivers and comforting insularity. Joan Didion dead, writer chronicled American culture with cool detachment 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z A son had taken a lawn mower away to be repaired and while waiting to get it back, Arnold’s grass grew higher than the windows, as if to reinforce his insularity. Vast numbers of people in Washington are shut out of the digital world; will massive government funding solve the problem? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Britain’s literal insularity obviously played a role in Brexit, and few would deny that Iran’s mountainous terrain has helped protect it from invasion. Review | How mountains, rivers and seas shape the fates of nations 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Bohn spent much of that time cleaning up messes his predecessors left behind, rebuilding a department not only rocked by scandal but plagued by a decade of insularity and stagnation. Meet Mike Bohn, the man tasked with resurrecting USC football with one perfect hire 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z During a time of increased openness by leagues and teams scrambling for market share, NHL clubs maintain an obsessive, almost paranoid desire for insularity and secrecy. NHL’s handling of Blackhawks scandal shows the league still has not evolved 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Despite a recent influx of newcomers, South Carolina retains some of its old Southern insularity and traditions. Unsolved Murdaugh murders expose years of South Carolina mysteries 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z China is an especially difficult challenge for the U.S. intelligence community given the insularity of its Communist Party leadership, its large military and security services and its development in advanced technologies that can counter spying. CIA creates working group on China as threats keep rising 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Despite Greenville's insularity, we've had some inkling that the world is changing around us. The Dixie Fire disaster and me 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “There is an explicit insularity and parochialism that now dictates debate.” Has Covid Cost Australia Its Love for Freedom? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Alberto’s stubborn devil-may-care attitude offers an admirable corrective, but that fearlessness is shown to mask a deeper sort of denial, an insularity that refuses to consider the full scope of the world’s possibilities. Review: ‘Luca’ is Pixar, Italian style — and one of the studio’s loveliest movies in years 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z VMI, the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, has grave, deep-rooted problems, and the school’s own denialism, resentment and insularity are impediments to fixing them. Opinion | VMI must act on a report revealing its ‘racist and sexist culture’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z But there’s also a very strong insularity and perhaps paranoia toward the mainstream press. Insider Q&A: Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Meeting domestic demands must not lead to a foreign policy of insularity. Op-Ed: 'Grand strategy' has a bad rep. To fix it, get beyond hard power and traditional statecraft 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z An immediate reform and expansion of membership in numbers sufficient to eliminate insularity, ensure journalistic credibility, and create real change. Time's Up calls Golden Globes group's reforms 'window dressing' as publicists' boycott continues 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The insularity, red tape, bloat, opacity and aversion to foreign ideas Abe’s party pledged to reform are still very much with Japan today. Opinion | Why is Japan failing so badly on vaccinations? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z “I’m not worried about machines taking over the world. I’m worried about groupthink, insularity and arrogance in the A.I. community — especially with the current hype and demand for people in the field,” she wrote. Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist? 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z In recent weeks, despite the association’s proclamations to reform, it has faced increased scrutiny and withering criticism over its insularity and powerful position it holds within the Hollywood award ecosystem. Hollywood publicists warn Golden Globes group to change, or lose access to star clients 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The demand for nursing care across Japan is so great that before the pandemic, the country began to relax its longtime insularity and allow more workers to be hired from other countries. 10 Years After Fukushima Disaster, This Nurse May Be the Region’s Best Hope 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Beset by criticisms over its insularity and secrecy, the group said it would set about “improving our efforts to create transparency into our operations, voting, processes, eligibility, and membership.” HFPA announces 'transformational' reforms after Times investigation 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z It removes a layer of insularity in ways both big and small. We Must Tear Down the Barriers That Impede Scientific Progress 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Yet in establishing a regime in which the church’s highest-ranking officials are charged with investigating and disciplining one another, the Vatican has reinforced the very insularity the pontiff identified as fertile ground for abuse. Opinion | Bishops shouldn’t investigate one another. Their U.S. conference must enact reforms. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z You can hear decades of resentment in Brennan’s complaint about the “insularity, parochialism, and arrogance” of the operators. Review | Former CIA director John Brennan takes on Trump, and doesn’t hold back 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But the hierarchical leadership structure concerned her, and so did the group’s insularity. Inside the People of Praise, the Tight-Knit Faith Community of Amy Coney Barrett 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “Kingdom of Silence” — the title refers to the insularity and secrecy of rule by the Saudi royal family — is most alarming in its implications about the United States, however, and not the Saudis. Review | Documentary probes the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and our complicated relationship with Saudi Arabia 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Finally, she announced a process intended to “remove the pervasive culture of insularity” from the police. Rochester Mayor Abruptly Fires Police Chief Over Daniel Prude’s Death 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The report concludes that the response to Prude’s death showed a “culture of insularity, acceptance and, quite frankly, callousness” within the Rochester Police Department. Report: Daniel Prude’s death shows a culture of ‘callousness’ in Rochester Police Dept. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Over the ensuing decades, the wolves developed widespread spine deformities and eye abnormalities, probably a result of interbreeding and insularity, and began to deteriorate. Review | Why migration is essential for survival — for animals and for humans 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The authors’ findings address key issues, such as the insularity of Ireland’s Mesolithic population, the immigration of Neolithic farming groups and the farmers’ relationship with the indigenous Irish Mesolithic fisher-hunter-foragers. Incest uncovered at the elite prehistoric Newgrange monument in Ireland 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z How does Australia respond to an ally that is inconsistent and – under stress – chaotic, and that has championed insularity to proclaim “America first”? The indispensable nation? Covid-19 tests the US-Australian alliance 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Instantaneous digital interactions encourage superficiality, insularity and tribalism. Opinion | What we lost when we stopped reading 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Raz said she thinks such insularity can extend to attitudes inside the country. Analysis: Virus shows benefit of learning from other nations 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The insularity of boarding schools has always provided that sense of heightened curiosity on which fiction thrives. The boarding school novel's #MeToo reckoning 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z For all the insularity and infighting, some residents of Harpers Ferry appreciate their town’s distinctive ethos, equal parts “Twin Peaks” and “House of Cards.” Death threats and illegal voting: The war over a luxury resort in Harpers Ferry 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z In such a world, insularity is our default mode and the exclamation point our fashionable foil. Opinion | The exclamation point is making a comeback! But it can’t last forever. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Like in coaching, though, the insularity of broadcasting magnifies questions of who’s afforded the limited opportunities and who isn’t. At Super Bowl, Joe Buck and Kyle Shanahan carry their dads’ legacies, for better or worse 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Hall, too, talks about the disorienting insularity of touring. Pinegrove Stages a Complicated Comeback 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “Her efforts weren’t driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity,” prosecutors wrote. Prosecutors ask for month in jail for Felicity Huffman in college admissions case - The Washington Post 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z “Her efforts weren’t driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity,” his office wrote in its filing Friday. Felicity Huffman pleads for no jail time in college admissions scandal 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “Her efforts weren’t driven by need or desperation,” they added, “but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity.” College admissions scandal: Prosecutors recommend one-month sentence for Felicity Huffman 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The insularity of many Gypsies here, which is reinforced by the wider prejudice toward its population across southern Europe, has a powerful social gravity all of its own. The soul of Perpignan: how a Gypsy community halted the bulldozers 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z These women said Epstein took advantage of the insularity of the dance world, where dancers rely on one another for job opportunities and trust that those tips are legitimate. Jeffrey Epstein’s New York hunting ground: dance studios 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z She also touched on how trading markets are striving to open up to the world, even as politicians push for more insularity. Where’d all the stocks go? Nasdaq’s CEO on shrinking market 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Rather, I was reminded again of the essential oddness and insularity of the English, which the French tend to interpret – despite the interminable farce of Brexit – as a kind of lovable eccentricity. Stolen phones, British homes and wine for breakfast – Arles photography festival 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The government's own guidance for schools says studying a foreign language from primary school onwards is a "liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures". Brexit 'hitting school language learning' 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z There is indeed evidence of “locality, insularity, national exceptionalism, isolationism, provincialism, and white tribalism in the rural heartland,” she writes, describing it as “a place shaped by long histories of antiblack legislation.” Review | Are we telling the right story of America? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Yet the sport also reflects a pivotal moment for Japanese society as it inches away from a deep-rooted insularity and opens to an increasing number of foreign workers. A Changing Sumo Will Welcome a Slipper-Clad Trump Into the Ring 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Some former officials believe that Bolton’s insularity could be dangerous, particularly in a crisis, when various arms of the government and the military have to mount a quick and coördinated response. John Bolton on the Warpath 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z For decades, under Mao’s leadership, China’s insularity kept it backward and poor, but it also facilitated the Party’s methods of control. In China, Shows Like “Story of Yanxi Palace” Go Viral, and the Party Is Not Amused 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z A parable about the insularity of the moneyed class? Are Beto and Amy O'Rourke the future of politics or the past? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Although the state may often be the source of ridicule by outsiders, there has been and always will be innovation born out of its simultaneous vastness and insularity. 'Blackness will never go away': how Solange takes pride in her roots 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He also concedes the potential risks of local, voluntary organizations, including their insularity. Review | Where civic life crumbled, Donald Trump arose 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z And the insularity and left-wing blinders of Seattle’s political class these days — so different from the leaders that prepared the core’s continued reinvention — always worries me. Seattle’s central city continues to punch above its weight, to the region’s benefit 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The transformational promise of Obama gave way to a reactionary campaign of white-national identity, which in turn beget an Administration described by ideological insularity and a profound tribal corruption. Kamala Harris’s Choices 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It is also a revealing lesson on the insularity and posturing of the conservative intellectual community. Anti-Trump conservatives want to reverse the GOP’s destruction. But they helped light the fuse. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z KASHIWA, Japan — Vexed by labor shortages in their rapidly aging country, lawmakers relaxed Japan’s longstanding insularity early Saturday by authorizing a sharp increase in the number of foreign workers. Bucking a Global Trend, Japan Seeks More Immigrants. Ambivalently. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Owens has spoken about the need to change this culture, replacing old-style insularity and hierarchy with one of her favourite phrases, “two-way handshakes”. Organised crime in the UK is bigger than ever before. Can the police catch up? 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The town is known for its insularity and lack of gossip, which allows for well-known residents to fly under the radar. Explosive Device Found in Mailbox at George Soros’s Westchester County Home 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Hatred, fear, insularity and incivility are the Four Horsemen of today. Opinion | What Motivates Your Vote? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Katz’s book explored the hubris and insularity of a behemoth that couldn’t imagine being usurped, and thus didn’t anticipate the rise of mall competition or discounters or, eventually, the internet. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Kavanaugh’s story is also one of the power and insularity of wealth. The rise and the reckoning: Inside Brett Kavanaugh’s circles of influence 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Turning competition from the exception into the rule would help foster trust in city halls and on Beacon Hill, whose insularity goes hand-in-hand with uncontested elections. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z If you never borrow anything, that is a creed of insularity and parochialism. Here’s the main issue behind the Jamie Oliver jerk rice row – and it’s not cultural appropriation 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z These campus subcultures operate with insularity and lack of accountability until something goes horribly wrong. Opinion | A win-at-all-costs mentality is dangerous and goes against Maryland’s values 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Woods has taken several steps to shake up Exxon’s insularity, embrace new risks and jettison less profitable areas. Exxon, Once a ‘Perfect Machine,’ Is Running Dry 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z We were an outlet through which ordinary people could explain themselves to strangers, without requiring the political side-taking of talk radio or the tribal insularity of the Internet. The Capital Gazette Shooting and the True Value of Local Newspapers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z That can be a potent engine for social and economic progress; it can also be an excuse for insularity and political grandstanding. Opinion | The Californization of America 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to discern the exact shape of the Nation of Islam’s role in Ward 8, due to the group’s insularity and what they themselves describe as a lack of trust toward outsiders. In D.C.’s mostly black Ward 8, the Nation of Islam’s presence has faded since its heyday 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps it needs to see its emptiness, to truly love itself beyond its continued de facto segregated spaces, its insularity. Is white America ready to confront its racism? Philosopher George Yancy says we need a 'crisis' 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Despite the insularity of Centre County politics, he won Grine’s old job in 1985 in an election that pitted him against Goodall, a Democrat. Gricar mystery: New investigator takes over 13-year-old case 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z If someone handed out awards for smugness and insularity, California would take top honors. Trump v. California: The Biggest Legal Clashes 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Complaints about Silicon Valley insularity are as old as the Valley itself. Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Daniels also saw a problem with how long some members have been serving on the board because it could lead to insularity. Who Has U.S.A. Gymnastics’ Back at This Point? The U.S.O.C., for Some Reason 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z So, too, does the insularity of the right-wing media ecosystem. Perspective | How Breitbart became just another right-wing Trump cheerleader 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z As a barometer of country identity, Bryan’s vision is a testament to its adaptability but also to its deep-rooted insularity. From Farm to Farm With the King of ‘Bro-Country’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Along with its fertile soil, Shakespeare’s garden of England was defined by its Edenic insularity, and by its impenetrability to intruders. “Albion” is a state-of-the-nation play for Brexit Britain 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The Capital Beltway that encircles Washington and its near suburbs is more than just a metaphor for the alleged insularity of the people who live within it. Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad: What Springsteen, Home Depot, and a Nobel Winner Know 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Chargers coach Anthony Lynn, who is from the Dallas area, said he was oblivious to the problems in his state, a testament to the insularity of coaches during the preseason. For Chargers with ties to hurricane-ravaged Houston, it's a stressful time worrying about loved ones 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The insularity of Saudi Arabia’s sprawling and phenomenally wealthy royal family is well known, often leaving diplomats, intelligence agents and members of the family itself struggling to decipher its inner workings. Saudi King’s Son Plotted Effort to Oust His Rival 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Just because social media helps midwife a movement doesn’t mean that movement is fated to insularity. How social media saved socialism 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z If economics are indeed what’s driving the retreat from insularity in Europe, that bodes well for the United States, too. Opinion | The E.U. has gotten much more popular. What happened? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Previous State Department chiefs of staff, including Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, were also accused of insularity. White House frustration grows with Tillerson over jobs for Trump allies 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z In Canberra, Ms. Jones is still dealing with the consequences of that insularity. Australia Grapples With Campus Assaults, and Reprisals Against Victims 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z "For colleagues in Asia, there's no risk sending a new plane or new flight to China, or a new route from Australia. You will see a certain insularity in this vast region." Fresh safety concerns hang over global airlines conference 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Austin’s insularity proved deadly for both jobs and families. Hope vs. hopelessness 40 minutes apart in the American interior 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z But not perfect, given that the PGA Tour’s apparently terminal insularity has long precluded many Americans from making the trip. How can the BMW PGA Championship become meaningful to Americans? Here's one man's plan - Golf Digest 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z And unlike other world leaders, such as Germany’s Merkel, who has been discomfited by Trump, Xi might find familiarity in the insularity of an administration run largely by tycoons and family members. As he gets ready to meet Trump in Florida, China's Xi Jinping has a lot to worry about 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z “Policing was and in many ways is held back by a culture of insularity and machismo, and diversity brings new and more creative thinking about what policing should look like.” L.A. County has seven female police chiefs. They've brought different skills — and set an all-time high 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z This, too, will be easier said than done, given the insularity and cliquishness demonstrated by the Trump team to date. Perspective | McMaster knows how national security policy can go wrong. Will that help him? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Instead, they arise from a belief that this move will rob the policy-making process of a particular kind of expertise and, worse, contribute to insularity and bias. Economists Have Been Demoted in Washington. That’s a Bad Idea. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In Asia, China sees an opening to become more of a world political leader, thanks to Trump’s commitment to greater U.S. insularity. Opinion | Uncertainty is sweeping the globe. That’s very bad for business. 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Trump administration centers on the insularity of its outlook. Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Trump’s distance, friends say, stems in part from a certain insularity, with the developer turned politician preferring his own properties, stocked with his own people. Donald Trump waits in his tower — accessible yet isolated 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The newcomers threaten Plum Grove’s cozy insularity, he said. Colonia-type concerns raised about Plum Grove neighborhoods 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But while the traditional insularity of Alghero has helped to preserve Catalan, the language is struggling to survive even here. Italy’s Last Bastion of Catalan Language Struggles to Keep It Alive 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z You’ll find another argument against insularity in the biggest new release this week, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” We can’t escape reality at the movies right now — and that’s okay 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Trump supporters insist it was East Coast insularity and ideological bias, and many in the media are now ready to believe that. Media Culpa? The Press and the Election Result 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “The board’s chumminess and insularity were impediments to making those difficult, but necessary, decisions,” McKeever said recently. Activist investor McKeever targets boardroom gender gap 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “The board’s chumminess and insularity were impediments to making those difficult, but necessary, decisions,” Ms. McKeever said recently. Hedge Fund Targets Companies’ Weakness: The Gender Gap 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z He also cautioned against insularity, saying, “Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.” Syria, U.S. Presidential Race, Tulsa: Your Evening Briefing 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Another neighbor, Joshua Sanchez, 24, was also struck by the familial insularity inside the chicken restaurant he referred to as “the shack.” Ahmad Rahami: Fixture in Family’s Business and, Lately, a ‘Completely Different Person’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Looking back now this is more a tale of English football’s insularity at the time. Arsène Wenger should have won more but English football owes him a lot | Barney Ronay 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Some investors and activists, meanwhile, cited what they saw as Exxon’s insularity, and its refusal to face up to potential threats to its future value, as a potential rationale for the SEC. Oil Sector, Investors React to SEC Probe of Exxon Over Climate Change 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The Clintons are notorious for insularity and withholding even anodyne information, so perhaps her medical records will show little of interest. Clinton’s Medical Mistrust 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The issue isn’t just their state of vigor but whether they operate with more insularity than transparency. Hillary Clinton, Zika, Syria: Your Monday Evening Briefing 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But while he is seen as progressive, Francis’s reform of the curia – the church’s central government, which he has castigated for its insularity and back-biting – is moving slowly. Pope and ceremony: the secret world of Vatican City 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z With the help of Morning Consult, an online polling organization, we sought to measure such insularity. A Question About Friends Reveals a Lot About Class Divides 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z He ponders two popular theories, “corruption” and “insularity.” State Graft 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Unless they are willing to live with an America of increasing economic insularity, they must look beyond narrow, short-term self-interest to the long-term common good on which their own well-being ultimately depends. The Double Political Whammy for Business 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “There was a little bit of intellectual insularity.” Election 2016 Is Propelled by the American Economy’s Failed Promises 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z There is the simple matter of American insularity. Viewpoint: Why the US can afford to ignore Canada - BBC News 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z One reason for the “Eastern District Effect,” as Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia, called it, could also have something to do with the insularity of judicial life. Federal Judge Urges U.S. to ‘Jettison the Madness of Mass Incarceration’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z For centuries, Britain has been a sort of diluted Japan: an island on the edge of a great continental mass, proud of its insularity. E.U. referendum exposes Britain’s political decay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z In many respects, China’s historical insularity means that it has largely lived homogenously—or thought of itself as doing so, writing off minorities like the Uighurs—quarantined from the outside world. Lessons About China and Race from a Detergent Ad 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z This insularity is true of most large corporations, but it matters more in this case because these companies really are designing the future and they may get away with it. In Silicon Valley, young white males are stealing the future from everyone else | Richard Watson 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Can there be any finer demonstration of the insularity and mediocrity of today’s Manhattan prestige media? Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fossilized, fearful media can’t touch Donald Trump 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z There have always been huge differences, but what is happening now is producing a worrying insularity. Stop telling women they’re doing feminism wrong 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It is difficult to admit that the very insularity that made me want to leave Mississippi after graduation has also made my return relatively easy. Mississippi, the Two-Flag State 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z But we’ll almost certainly wind up more or less back where we ended a decade ago—with unfulfilled promises, squandered investments and another case study in Valley insularity. Virtual Second Thoughts 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z In the case of the intelligence world, where a high degree of insularity is essential, the cloak of language renders spooks and their civilian critics mutually alien. A Spymaster Opens Up 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Streep, Spielberg and Clinton are not uniquely evil in their insularity: in fact, they have all in some way or another publicly allied themselves with black culture. People who don't 'see race' are erasing black people and their contributions | Rebecca Carroll 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z And for all the thrilling cosmopolitanism of the Premier League it is a skein of native insularity that remains. Bonkers? Mad? Why Van Gaal and Klopp must be taken seriously | Barney Ronay 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z That insularity, almost a novice arrogance, makes them tough to buck whether you’re on the opposite side of a negotiation from them, or even on their side. Lerners got rich doing it their way; this time, it cost the Nationals a manager 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z For Hasidic leaders, it’s the latest threat to centuries of tradition and insularity. Ultra-orthodox Jews are using WhatsApp to defy their rabbis’ internet ban 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Harper’s politics, however they understandably resonated in the West as a reaction against the insularity of the Ontario and Quebec corridor, were increasingly those of division, nastiness, and fear. Trudeau’s Walk on the Bright Side of Canada 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Among them: insularity, rigidity and a sense that the operation is tone-deaf to changes happening around it. Backers fear old weaknesses stalk Clinton campaign 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Regional Fed banks' executive searches are also under scrutiny for apparent insularity. Fed's Williams vows more transparency after meeting with Fed Up 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But it presents Scott Walker, and his fellow Republicans, with a longer-term dilemma: are they happy to talk almost exclusively to themselves, knowing that such insularity might cost them the presidency? Scott Walker: a candidate who embodies America's current partisan divisiveness 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z "And so this represents a real threat for their insularity." Ultra-orthodox Jews are using WhatsApp to defy their rabbis’ internet ban 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z A glance at what passes for insider “wisdom” in Washington these days reveals a worldview of stunning insularity. American imperialists are deluding themselves: Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush and the end of U.S. hegemony 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Our constitution has not come out of any abstract insularity. Read TIME's Exclusive Interview with Narendra Modi 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Left unchecked, the cult-like insularity, groupthink, and cultural excess will wreak havoc across the market. Attention Silicon Valley: There Is Life Outside Of Silicon Valley 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The insularity of the cable community supports this interpretive work. Undersea Cable Network Operates in a State of Alarm [Excerpt] 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The culture of insularity that typically shrouds many college fraternities -- especially during controversial episodes -- makes it difficult to know exactly how common or widespread the chant is--perhaps even for the fraternity's national leadership. Racist fraternity chant may not be limited to University of Oklahoma 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z "As far as the story backs up previously conceived ideas about the Clintons' level of transparency and, more specifically, about Hillary Clinton's insularity, it could give her opponents some pretty potent ammunition," he writes. Could Clinton emails shake up 2016 race? 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Democrats, though, hope Sestak isn’t their nominee because of his unpredictability and the insularity of his campaign team. 10 most competitive Senate races in ’16 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The insularity and groupthink of the elite have led to a damaging culture of excess and intellectual dishonesty in the startup world. Attention Silicon Valley: There Is Life Outside Of Silicon Valley 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The current policy climate risks insularity by focusing on external motivators — such as unemployment, disenfranchisement and susceptibility to recruitment via social media. The Roots of Radicalism We Don't Discuss 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Cultural and language barriers have bred such deep insularity that many in the Liu family’s circle seemed in recent days to be only dimly aware of the city’s policing controversy. For Officer Liu’s Funeral, Blending Police Traditions With Chinese Customs 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The company’s slow response to acceleration problems dating back to 2002 owed much to its insularity, even arrogance. The World's Biggest Car Company Wants to Get Rid of Gasoline 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z But those boys lived in an insular world, and I believe that insularity, coupled with a sense of entitlement, and fueled with excessive alcohol, enabled our particular version of the widespread college sex assault problem. UVA’s Rape Problem Will Only Be Solved When the ‘Virginia Gentleman’ Evolves 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The problem is that these people are increasingly becoming the minority, replaced by a new guard that values insularity, groupthink, and a culture that is damaging for the industry and the entrepreneurs they support. Attention Silicon Valley: There Is Life Outside Of Silicon Valley 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z To some extent, both suffered from an insularity and a perception of arrogance in office. Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor-elect, taps into the city’s desire for continuity and change Ms. Kentish said she is quite comfortable with the insularity of her family. A Mother Who Provides Round-the-Clock Care Finds Solace in Her Home 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z But I misjudged the size, insularity and interest of the PR universe. Dear PR People Everywhere: I Am Not Your Savior The approach seems to have been based on an assumption of Pakistani insularity—an assumption that cloaked itself, sincerely or strategically, in the garb of cultural sensitivity. An Old Contempt in Rotherham 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z This insularity leads to groupthink on a massive scale. Attention Silicon Valley: There Is Life Outside Of Silicon Valley 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Instead, the Slavification was the product of shifting national feeling, an insularity that continues to radiate from Russia today. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd “Does the board suffer from insularity? A little bit,” Korff added. Intersecting Interests at the Top of U.S. Tennis 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Given the relatively rich ‘angel’ culture in the area, that insularity manifests itself primarily in a shortage of what Christou describes as ‘follow on’ capital. "Redefining" Investment In the Cambridge Cluster - New Fund Flags First Deals 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z With all due respect, you have to broaden your circle of advisers; the episodes we’ve cited reflect White House insularity. Imagining What Democrats Would Say to Obama 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The bridge scandal has also revealed the insularity of Christie’s team, centered around strategist Mike DuHaime and former law partner and political fixer Bill Palatucci. Chris Christie Battered By His GOP Rivals on Governors' Circuit 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z That village’s insularity was further compounded by lack of mainstream interest or coverage in its workings. Have You Read The Latest Startup Thriller? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z More troubling may be the increasing insularity among both ideological wings, as they retreat to different geographic and social spheres. How The United States Is Growing More Partisan In 10 Charts 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I think the answer lies in the insularity of the debate itself. John Oliver, Net Neutrality, and the Ghost of SOPA-PIPA 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Nick Clegg is due to warn against letting the "forces of insularity and chauvinism" dictate Britain's future in Europe. Clegg: I'll fight EU 'chauvinism' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z And, even those who think Cuomo might run in a Hillary-less field raise questions about the insularity of his political team and his ties to Wall Street. Hillary Clinton is the only person who can stop Hillary Clinton But it was hard not to think about the insularity and cossetting the super-wealthy enjoy, once they get super-wealthy, watching the maligned Los Angeles Clippers owner self-destruct with Anderson Cooper Monday night. Donald Sterling’s interview disaster: Rich old racist self-destructs to Anderson Cooper 2014-05-13T11:44:00Z He hated the insularity of the economics department. Taking on Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) 2014-04-19T16:57:43Z But the Soviet Union’s economic insularity and resulting economic stagnation was a major cause of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Common Sense: Why Russia Can’t Afford Another Cold War 2014-03-07T18:30:34Z "What the excerpt captured was the insularity and paranoia of plutocrats who band together to protect themselves from mostly imagined social opprobrium and self-doubt." Wall Street lords laugh over bailout 2014-02-19T19:27:05Z What the excerpt captured was the insularity and paranoia of plutocrats who band together to protect themselves from mostly imagined social approbation and self-doubt. Filthy rich but secretly terrified: Inside the One Percent’s sore-winner backlash 2014-02-18T18:03:00Z Perhaps Team Obama learned a painful lesson from the disastrous rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — a casualty, in no small part, of White House insularity. Letter From Washington: So Far, So Good for John Kerry 2013-12-09T03:47:16Z Although the policies are entirely different, both were unforced errors aggravated by a president’s insularity. Sebelius tells senators Obamacare site is operating more smoothly 2013-11-06T18:55:24Z Ben Hogan's insularity made Arnold Palmer's way with people that much more refreshing, while Jack Nicklaus successfully split the difference. Decorum Makes A Comeback 2013-08-27T04:00:00Z But the choice also is roiling Washington because it is reviving longstanding and sensitive questions about the insularity of the Obama White House and the dearth of women in its top economic policy positions. In Tug of War Over New Fed Leader, Some Gender Undertones 2013-07-26T01:38:33Z In country that remembers American tolerance of Mubarak’s repressive regime all too well, Obama is accused of turning a blind eye to Morsi’s power grabs and insularity. With Egypt in Crisis, Obama Is Treading Cautiously 2013-07-02T10:50:28Z Complaints about White House insularity are as pronounced as ever. Letter From Washington: After 100 Days, Little Progress in Washington 2013-04-28T15:32:19Z Obama still has some time to cure the ills of insularity. Sebelius tells senators Obamacare site is operating more smoothly 2013-11-06T18:55:24Z Added to this perception of insularity are the negative views of the United States overall, especially when seen through the prism of Catholic values—a point made quite well by my colleague Fr. Cardinal Dolan: pope or pope maker? 2013-03-11T14:41:00Z Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program;’ our groupism; and our insularity.” The Fukushima Nightmare 2013-03-11T08:45:00Z The insularity extends to the “papabil”—the roll call of possible, even likely Popes. Incompetent, Insular, Intolerant 2013-03-08T09:45:00Z For those who remain, a kind of depressed insularity has set in, as if time froze as the floodwaters withdrew. Recovery Remains Spotty 3 Months After Hurricane Sandy 2013-01-22T04:28:42Z Scientology is known for both secrecy and, at the highest levels, extreme insularity. Beliefs: No Religious Exemption When It Comes to Abuse 2013-01-05T01:04:17Z The debate was most notable for its insularity, with both candidates constantly attempting to drag world affairs back to the domestic. The presidential debate: Third time lucky 2012-10-25T15:00:59Z Not helping matters is a corporate culture marked by arrogance and insularity that Akerson failed to break after he took over in September 2010, analysts and bankers said. Analysis: Wall Street frustrated with pace of change at GM 2012-10-18T15:34:13Z This is especially true of the child-abuse crisis; the Church’s dereliction here is not merely a matter of incompetence, but of a protective and privileged insularity. Incompetent, Insular, Intolerant 2013-03-08T09:45:00Z Atsushi Sunami, an expert in science and technology policy at Tokyo’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, points to another reason for Japan’s insularity: culture. Global mobility: Science on the move 2012-10-17T17:20:51.890Z What she might have seen as discretion, colleagues in other parts of the bank perceived as insularity. Ina Drew, Jamie Dimon, and JPMorgan Chase’s $6 Billion Mistake 2012-10-03T09:00:22Z Often, though, Ms. Jarrett seems to be more of a lightning rod for complaints of White House insularity and a thin-skinned response to detractors. Valerie Jarrett Is the Other Power in the West Wing 2012-09-02T02:02:22Z “Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program;’ our groupism; and our insularity.” Fukushima Nuclear Crisis a Man-Made Disaster, Report Says 2012-07-05T09:50:07Z If you lead your team too tightly, you run the risk of creating insularity and inflexibility. Leading Teams: Find the Right Balance Between Hands-on and Hands-off 2012-06-18T17:45:57Z The supposedly superior Obama campaign looks amateurish, and complaints about the operation’s insularity have reached a fever pitch. Letter From Washington: To Obama, Advice From Democratic Sages 2012-06-17T16:50:05Z English footballers are often accused of a kind of gilded insularity, of failing to see beyond the walls of their own self-propelling Premier League. Frank Lampard eager to lead Chelsea over Champions League final hurdle 2012-05-17T21:30:04Z Otherwise downtown Las Vegas will become only a company town by another name, and Hsieh will manage only to duplicate the very insularity he is working so hard to overcome. Zappos' Billionaire Wants to Remake Downtown Las Vegas 2012-04-24T09:05:00Z He found his trade, his ambition, almost his whole life, satisfied within the walls of the borough in which he dwelt; and the Craft Gilds crystallised, as it were, this tendency towards insularity. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z The insularity of the national character has to some extent disappeared in the tide of new ideas, and novel modes of life that from Continental sources are perpetually overflowing into our land. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The latter position by its insularity, was effectually protected against any attack from Indian tribes, who, for many years, continually harassed the inhabitants of Carelmapu. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z It’s a coming-of-age comedy like “That ’70s Show” or “Happy Days” but focused on the naïveté and insularity of Soviet society in a way that makes viewers feel sophisticated and modern. The TV Watch: In Putin?s Russia, TV Mirrors Longing for Normalcy 2012-02-13T05:52:11Z 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. The Downfall of M T Carney, Disney?s Marketing Manager 2012-01-08T22:50:06Z There is the quirky insularity of Ron Paul supporters, skittish in their bow ties and fleece jackets, content to keep opponents guessing as to whether they should be feared or ignored. Republicans Wage Hidden Ground War in Iowa 2011-12-31T20:27:41Z Its management ranks will also need a radical overhaul, a turn from insularity. American: Why Different Didn't Work 2011-11-29T20:04:09Z It is possibly due in a great measure to our insularity; but, whatever be the cause, it is an undesirable quality to possess. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z This is at once a testament to the loyalty Perry inspires, and the insularity of tight-knit political circles. Rick Perry's Hiring Spree: Why a Hawk Is Turning to the Establishment 2011-10-25T10:20:00Z In the circumstances he had no means of testing the insularity of the aerial. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z He didn't give a single whoop for all this talk about the snobbishness and insularity of English undergraduates. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z The discovery of the insularity of Greenland might again give rise to the argument as to the distinction between island and continent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z That insularity bedevils trade unionism to this day. The secret history of America's unemployed 2011-09-12T13:01:00Z The tongue sat ill on a nation that was already proud of its insularity and unity. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Characteristics of insularity, owing to barriers to dispersal and movement, tend to be lacking in the makeup of the avifauna here. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z He had been born and bred in London, in an atmosphere of lower middle-class insularity and ignorance, from which he had escaped into a wider world by the means of art-classes and night-schools. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Like David Storey in This Sporting Life, he is unafraid to use sport as a metaphor for Yorkshire insularity. Anthony Clavane's top 10 football fictions 2011-08-17T09:26:59Z It was to their ignorance of America and Americans that I referred, and to the insularity of their position towards us. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Let no one say that England's insularity means lack of adaptability. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Its resilience during the crisis partly reflected its competence, but also its insularity and underdevelopment. Indian banks: The pendulum swings again 2011-06-09T11:07:17Z Rousseau passed out of sight and out of mind, and was known only to those few who went to foreign sources of inspiration in that age of hard British insularity. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Such insularity is reassuring to many business people, especially the large community of recent arrivals. Square Feet: Chinatown Mobilizes to Enhance Its Outside Appeal 2011-03-30T01:27:08Z This ignorance is now less than it was in Cooper's time, and of late the insularity has been modified for the better. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z English humorists developed a flagrant cynicism, spotted with a varioloid paradox, while French writers have halted between the isolation of the hospital and the insularity of the home. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z The savage insularity of the average Englishman is matter for never-ending amusement, once one has grown accustomed to his contempt. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z It is Guardiola's style, one so clear as to appear to suggest rigidity and insularity. Pep Guardiola the purist and pragmatist oiling Barcelona's machine 2011-03-06T00:20:00Z As an Australian, Smith is well placed to comment on alleged English insularity and does not agree with Lièvremont's analysis. England to deploy the Jonny Wilkinson effect against French heavy guns 2011-02-22T20:02:26Z Is not its cause the self-satisfaction of ignorant insularity?—using neither word in any offensive sense. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z "We want to eliminate insularity," Akerson told analysts on Jan. 11. Remaking GM, Part II 2011-01-20T22:00:00Z Their insularity helps explain why some of China's foreign policy decrees sound so at odds with the oratory of its smoother emissaries. Hu's State Visit: The Battle Between China's Fierce and Friendly Faces 2011-01-19T08:15:00Z Finance can take advantage of insularity, timidity and moral shortsightedness, but the ethos of the Jersey establishment derives ultimately from the offshore industries and their onshore controllers, not from innate island character. The truth about tax havens 2011-01-08T07:30:01Z But non-Harrovians—and there are a considerable number of them—decline with natural insularity to follow Mr. Vachell to his topmost heights. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z "Light," I take it, means knowledge; and "sweetness" is incompatible with that form of morgue britannique which one may call insularity. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Here, as over so large a portion of the Australian region, we find birds constituting the supreme class—the scarcity of mammals being accounted for in some measure as a normal effect of insularity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z “These are neighborhoods with a preference for insularity,” said David M. Pollock, associate executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, a nonprofit group. In an Alliance With a Rabbi, Opportunities for Paladino 2010-10-12T01:05:00Z The development director also recognises that McClaren is a rarity in breaking free of any English insularity. McClaren may be set for England return 2010-10-05T23:05:00Z Spain are no longer so open to accusations of insularity. World Cup 2010: Spain draw on home rule but share cosmopolitan outlook 2010-07-09T06:04:00Z After decades of insularity, the sport now attracts a global audience, and its elite ranks are filled with foreign wrestlers who are proving more successful than their Japanese counterparts. Sumo threatened by scandal and crime 2010-07-03T23:06:00Z On the contrary, he perceptively observes that Obama’s emphasis on previous government experience often translated into insularity as he surrounded himself with Clinton-era officials steeped in the values of Wall Street. Book Review - The Promise - President Obama, Year One - By Jonathan Alter 2010-05-28T17:05:00Z The self-contained insularity of American life has been commented on endlessly, with its gated communities, mirror-tinted SUVs and Xbox-equipped "man caves" requiring zero participation in public life. Average American Diner: Changing Tastes Fragment Market 2010-04-06T18:55:00Z The self-contained insularity of American life has been commented on endlessly, with its gated communities, mirror-tinted SUVs, and X-Box-equipped "man caves" requiring zero participation in public life. The Average American Eater, R.I.P. 2010-04-06T10:50:00Z It is a telling outsiders' view of the country, with the wall serving as a potent symbol for the insularity of the Chinese. Is China's business trade policy proving a barrier to success? 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z Both the court and the White House paid a considerable price for their insularity and secrecy. Book Review | Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court - By Jeff Shesol 2010-03-26T19:29:00Z Somehow, this insularity helped create a geographically distinctive, remarkably artistic quilting style. 2010-01-30T00:50:00Z Mr. Packer adds: Haitian political culture has a long history of insularity, corruption, and violence, which partly explains why Port-au-Prince lies in ruins. 2010-01-19T13:16:00Z Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity. The Vagabond in Literature Ultimately the Egyptians, when their insularity disappeared under the successive dominations of Ethiopia, Assyria and Persia, described themselves as rem-n-Kēmi, “men of Egypt.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I value our insular position, but I dread the day when we shall be reduced to a moral insularity.... The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) But in course of time they broke through their insularity with the force of their own arms. Roman Women As has been already observed in a previous chapter, the conquest of Britain by the Normans modified the insularity of the people and brought them into closer communication with the people of the continent. Women of England Your talk, instead of being an indictment of life as you find it, has been merely an exposition of your own ignorance, a sample of that British insularity which we all deplore. Lord Stranleigh Abroad The pictures and books and furniture presented a front of impregnable insularity. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Archaeology, comparative philology and textual criticism have also contributed their share; and the comparative study of religions has further tended to broaden the outlook and to make for universality, as opposed to insularity, of view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Educated people, enjoying some knowledge of what has been happening abroad during the last fifty years, can scarcely conceive the ignorance and insularity of contemporary British painters. Pot-Boilers Some will say that this comes from pride, or insularity; but they would be wrong. My Impressions of America But Shakespeare had been before both in these expressions of gratitude for our insularity. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Was it, he wondered, with a sudden swift intuition, a touch of insularity, a sign of narrowness, that he should find himself so utterly repelled by this foreign note in their temperaments? The Moving Finger England is not large in area and the people are generally regarded as homogeneous in their insularity. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Macaulay's sympathy with these qualities led to some annoying peculiarities, to a certain brutal insularity, and to a commonness, sometimes a vulgarity, of style which is easily criticised. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) German bull-headedness insisted on insularity, on individualism, on particularism, on standing each petty monarch in his corner, with farce-comedy courtiers bowing and scraping while the rights of the peasant were forgotten. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck The great disadvantage of a 'Varsity is the insularity of mind which it is apt to breed. War Letters of a Public-School Boy This is one of the few points on which English insularity really is a disadvantage. What I Saw in America It is no uncommon thing to hear an American speak of British insularity—the Englishman's "insular prejudices" or his "insular conceit." The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations The insularity of her life had left her very susceptible to Mrs. Frankland's discourses. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York He had done wonders with the chronicles; but in presence of the long muster-rolls of Greece and Rome he must have felt their insularity; and he never returned to them in the old spirit. Montaigne and Shakspere Talking of English insularity, it is curious to note how the Englishman makes his progress abroad. War Letters of a Public-School Boy There, still nervous, he made his way to the nearest inn, and, to proclaim his insularity, called for porter. William Pitt and the Great War Their insularity bred in the English a disposition different from the dispositions of the Continental peoples just as undeniably as it kept them aloof from those peoples geographically. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations It would, indeed, be a disastrous outcome of the war if it led us still more to emphasise our insularity. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship In all this story it is interesting to note that insularity in position is the reverse of insularity in fact. A History of Sea Power Now and again some startling feat attracted the world's attention, as when the English Channel was first crossed by air and England was made to realize that her insularity was gone. Opportunities in Aviation Strangest of all, we have come, in our English insularity, to look on this as a matter of course. The Booklover and His Books It is only the insularity of the Britisher magnified many times. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations There are ominous signs of the possible triumph of a deadly Saxon insularity, but there are other signs that give us hope. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship The great defect of the English mind is insularity; the virtue of its boisterous energy is accompanied by lack of insight into the differing virtues of other peoples. The Task of Social Hygiene We certainly managed in this affair of the execution of Charles to get rid of that note of insularity which renders our politics uninviting to the stranger. Obiter Dicta Second Series Her situation of insularity and at the same time of proximity to the Continent laid her open to frequent invasion in early times, but after she secured a navy made her singularly safe from subjugation. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England As a physical fact, the "insularity" of America is immensely more obvious and more nearly complete than that of Britain; and it is no less so as a moral fact. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations A certain naïf insularity sometimes betrays itself in their incapacity to adapt themselves to their new-world surroundings. A History of American Christianity The call of Bahá’u’lláh is primarily directed against all forms of provincialism, all insularities and prejudices. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh The call of Bahá’u’lláh is primarily directed against all forms of provincialism, all insularities and prejudices.... Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era English insularity and patriotism drew them powerfully to the bosom of their own peculiar communion. The Age of the Reformation It is true that America's island is a continent; but this superiority in size has only resulted in producing more kinds of insularity than in England. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations It is not our insularity that makes us so insular. Post-Prandial Philosophy They were complacent in their insularity, and had a prejudice against the foreigner. Lectures on Modern history It lived on the legend of Trafalgar; the sense that insularity was independence; the sense that anomalies are as jolly as family jokes; the general sense that old salts are the salt of the earth. The Victorian Age in Literature If I believe my ears, there is nothing but stupidity and insularity in England. The Parts Men Play Then, of course, there has been constant danger in the English bull-headed insularity which sees nothing but the Englishman's immediate need, and in the English slowness. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II His sinful insularity ran to ludicrous manifestations sometimes. The Romance of the Coast But insularity is not a good thing in itself, and the natural English attitude to the foreigners tended to confound good and bad alike in a general condemnation. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Though he was far enough from realizing it, his education and the Eastern environment had given him a touch of Old-World insularity. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush The attitude of the culture of London towards it is of course merely humiliating to any Englishman who has made an effort to cure himself of insularity. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 They know how badly they need help and they do mean to be as good to us as their benignant insularity will permit. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Professor Flamm begins by explaining how England has been protected for centuries by her insularity. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Their insularity, spiritual as well as geographical, has whetted the edge of a thousand flouts and gibes. The Open Secret of Ireland And this sense of patriotism almost reaches insularity of view. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson English Catholicism long before the Reformation had been a Protestant Catholicism, always in revolt against Roman claims, always preserving its insularity. The Altar Steps No one values true patriotism more than I do, but I detest "insularity"—that insufferable feeling of superiority of which English people are so often guilty. Stray Thoughts for Girls They had appreciated the free and easy liberty of the old days, under British rule, but there was a stiff insularity in the ruling race that they chafed against. When William Came Perhaps he felt, with Tennyson's insularity dominating his ears, that it was as well to put the other side. The Poetry Of Robert Browning The English because of their insularity had been political amateurs for endless generations. Mr. Britling Sees It Through He named two towns in Manitoba, while Lady Merton's pink flush showed her conscious of having betrayed her English insularity. Lady Merton, Colonist It marked the emergence of the Church of England from that insularity to which what may be called the territorial principles of the Reformation had condemned her. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 It is not enlightenment, on the contrary it is ignorance and insularity, which causes most of us to miss this fact. The New Jerusalem "May I call that a touch of insularity?" The Great Prince Shan Yours is only one further degree of insularity. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Upon the whole I satisfied myself of the insularity of this land; and gave to it, shortly after, the name of THISTLE'S ISLAND, from the master who accompanied me. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 There is little sense of the higher and broader issues: the spiritual restrictions are as definite as the social and geographical: the insularity is magnificent. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Such a journey is a liberal education in itself, knocking the insularity out of a man—if he has any receptive faculty that is—and ridding him of all manner of stodgy prejudices. Deadham Hard Israel was taken out of its petty provincialisms, its race insularity, and placed amid one of the most highly cultivated civilizations of the ancient world. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible It would undoubtedly have shared the full progress of western Europe from this time on, but for its insularity. The Glories of Ireland First, the very insularity on which we insisted was barbaric, in its refusal of a seat in the central senate of the nations. The Crimes of England And now our insularity is breached by the foreigner who has got ahead with flying. An Englishman Looks at the World The constant repetition of three names on the stones in the burying grounds—Attwooll, Pearce and Stone—will bring home to the stranger the insularity of the "Isle of Slingers." Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter No doubt there was something in the danger they dreaded, but the evil was not unmixed with good, for insularity will always be an enemy of good literature. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge In order to set at rest the question of the insularity of this land we passed within it, but not without difficulty, from the numerous shoals that are scattered over the channel. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Our wealth, our insularity, our gradual loss of faith, had so dazed us that the old Christian England haunted us like a ghost in whom we could not quite believe. The Crimes of England It matters nothing to them that the poverty and insularity of our intellectual life has turned American art to France and Italy, and the American universities towards Germany. An Englishman Looks at the World This indifference to other writers of his time, this insularity, was doubtless his loss. Ponkapog Papers Without insularity, we may claim to be better judges of authors in our own tongue than foreign critics, however distinguished and comprehending. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge He advanced the idea that the English, from the insularity of their character, were incapable of making a perfect translation. Authors and Friends Life of Turner," he said to Mr. Seeley:— "The insularity of the English that you speak of is not worse than the insularity of the French. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 The insularity of their citadel has worked in the same direction, by focussing their interests upon the purely human. Old Calabria His point of view is unusually broad, his chief general purpose being to free English taste from its insularity, to give it sympathetic acquaintance with the peculiar excellences of other literatures. A History of English Literature He proved the insularity of the South Land, and examined the long-neglected east coast. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Until the end of her life, a certain insularity clung to Kate Lee. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" The native shed something of his insularity and became a traveler, going first to view the places where trade had opened the way, and returning with wider interests and a larger horizon. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World While Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Russia, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, etc., live the same life, are one in thought, Great Britain lives in her superb insularity. Peaceless Europe The clear diplomatic horizon, the universal peace except in turbulent South America, and the successful negotiations in recent treaties foretold an era of insularity and full fruition of individuality. The United States of America, Part 1 But there is nothing remarkable about her—she's just a woman—with a bright smile,—and a touch of American vivacity running through her English insularity. God's Good Man And when England shall have cast off that peculiar insularity which makes her differ from all civilised peoples, she will probably abolish three gross abuses, time-honoured scandals, which bear very heavily on women and children. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 "It's rather bad luck on them," he went on, with bland insularity, "that the men of the European neutrals—Dutch, Danish, Norwegians or Swedes—all resemble Germans so much more than Englishmen." The Devil's Paw The family had, of course, been much angered, and had fully expected that her estates would go to some great English abbey, or to some English lord whose haughty reserve and insularity would be insupportable. The Caged Lion Religiosity today differs from the religiosity of previous pragmatic frameworks insofar as it corresponds to the accentuated insularity of the individual. The Civilization of Illiteracy Out of its insularity it made occasional excursions to dinners and week-ends; even into marriage, now and then with an outlander. The Breaking Point Henry Thompson was the extreme of insularity, and Noel Ryland the extreme of frothiness, while between them, supporting the state, defending the evangelical churches and domestic brightness and sound business, were Babbitt and his friends. Babbitt It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal. Martin Eden Relative insularity and a definite alienation from the overall of the system's goals-meeting higher demands by higher performance-are part of the picture described. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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