How To Use clannishness In A Sentence
- It's large scale corporate enterprise and clannishness that aren't very compatible. Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- It's just as hard to penetrate the clannishness of islanders who've lived and played apart from the world for generations.
- Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise. Poor Man's Rock
- Fierce jests about the Scotch who came to make their fortune off their richer neighbors, about their clannishness and their canniness, and their poverty and their pride, and still lower and coarser jibes about other supposed peculiarities were then still as current as the popular crows of triumph over the French and other similar antipathies; and Kirsteen's advent was attended by many comments of the kind from the sharp young Londoners to whom her accent and her slower speech, and her red hair and her ladyhood were all objects of derision. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
- The latter are chiefly an expression of the predatory impulse simply; the former are more specifically an expression of that heritage of clannishness which is so large a feature in the temperament of the predatory barbarian. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
- Our so-called "clannishness" is not the issue here. Articles
- clannishness" but also on the "licentiousness" of the Jewish population, manifesting itself in congregating on the streets, and similar grave crimes. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
- This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.
- There were few aircraft and few pilots but most of those pilots had been hand-picked and there was a distinct clannishness in the organization.
- It's a nasty world, Scorsese agrees - a world of too much passion and too little sense, of ancient blood feuds and perilous clannishness.
