insularity

How To Use insularity In A Sentence

• Such horizontal socialisation means insularity and intense peer-based solidarity. Times, Sunday Times
• In many ways, insularity is a bigger problem than polygamy.
• The insularity of Washington, pressures of careerism, fear of appearing soft and the absence of institutional alternatives all contribute to a limiting of the debate.
• Sometimes, too, cohesion is just another word for insularity or even self-dealing. Japan Will Rebuild From Quake But Faces Other Daunting Tests
• Diary posits her as a threat to the insularity of the Monteils and their vapid way of life, a threat Moreau coolly limns in one of her most nuanced, restrained performances.
• But China's diverse folk art reflected the insularity of Chinese society and the great distances that separated different parts of the country.
• But if the inward-looking nature of working-class culture was born of limited opportunities, the answer is to widen the choices rather than cherish the insularity.
• Miranda herself is significantly altered at the end of the play, having effectively lost her symbolic insularity - her distinction from the Italian metropole.
• In her conversations about the UIC chancellorship she posed her alertness to a multicultural, multiethnic future against what she calls the insularity of that campus. Chicago Reader
• With fantasy the insularity is even worse: the fantasy reader who has not read the original ancient epic poems of which modern fantasy is merely a variation or imitation runs the risk of being unduly impressed with a watered-down and modernized version of a rich and ancient literary tradition. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers