Sample Sentences for
insular
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    His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone.  (source)
    insular = self-contained and cut off from others
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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)
    insular = narrow and closed-off to outside perspectives
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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)
    insular = cut off from the rest of the world
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    Max's life at the farm was relatively quiet and insular.  (source)
    insular = self-contained and cut off from others
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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)
    insular = cut off from the wider world
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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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    Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.  (source)
    insular = isolated and self-contained
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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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    He knows that that sort of insular passion can't be sustained.  (source)
    insular = isolated from outside influence
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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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    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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    Since the days when, as a schoolboy, I used to bicycle round the neighboring parishes, rubbing brasses and photographing fonts, I had nursed a love of architecture, but, though in opinion I had made that easy leap, characteristic of my generation, from the puritanism of Ruskin to the puritanism of Roger Fry, my sentiments at heart were insular and medieval.†  (source)
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