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The committee is isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless.
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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.† (source)
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Portly in build, jovial in countenance and somewhat bald of pate, Mr. Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days—the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.† (source)
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He might have been earning his keep, but the barn roof was also a convenient surveyor's point, a perch from which their entire, insular little kingdom was revealed.† (source)
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He'd hated it: Ojai was too small, too insular and, in the summer months, simply too hot for him.† (source)
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Their world was insular, away from the real world that I was running from.† (source)
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He knows that that sort of insular passion can't be sustained.† (source)
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She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none of that mattered so long as she could slip her hands beneath his coat, run her fingers over the warm smoothness of the satin back of his waistcoat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a shelter from the perplexing world.† (source)
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As I see it, the battle lines are between the idealized, superficial and insular-minded way of looking at the world (which many schools and mainstream culture impose on our children and the rest of us), and the actual conditions of our lives with all its multiplicity, struggle, shading and nuance.† (source)
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold, the enemy of Poe, rose from his decorous Baptist pew to protest that so much patriotism amounted to insularity and absurdity, but there seems to have been no one to second the motion.† (source)
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Max's life at the farm was relatively quiet and insular.† (source)
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His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone.† (source)
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Had she insight, could she have pierced the barriers of her highly selective, insular world, she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.† (source)
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Frank, Top Cat, Jasper, Ethel, Richard, Lincoln, Jimmy Sue, and all the rest of the insular, world-protected crowd that came across the river that day were having a ball.† (source)
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But I do think that the language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families which are more insular, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child.† (source)
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"...the Insular Cases of nineteen aught one," Mr. Doans was saying.† (source)
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