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"insular" Definitions
  1. (disapproving) only interested in your own country, ideas, etc. and not in those from outside
  2. (usually disapproving) having little contact with other people
  3. (specialist) connected with an island or islands

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The insular inner circle is getting more insular, as it amasses more power.
"There definitely something insular about tech and definitely something insular about Silicon Valley," she said.
So we complain about Trump being insular and parochial — but we've become insular and parochial as well.
To maximize productivity, insular tech campuses are insular—they intentionally isolate workers, their time, and their money, sequestering employment and economic opportunities away from the communities around the campus.
"When people marry, they become more insular," DePaulo tells us.
The Bay has remained, in some ways, pretty insular, right?
In her insular sisterhood, discretion had always been the watchword.
Englishness, by contrast, is increasingly regarded as insular and atavistic.
The process of insular dwarfism, it would appear, works quickly.
The community is too insular, the memes far too bizarre.
But that attitude creates insular communities and, frankly, boring games.
Living in San Francisco was more of an insular experience.
Partly as a result, the office felt insular, Krasner said.
There's something very insular about people who work in cybersecurity.
Instead, there is a kind of suffocating, insular, ethnic uniformity.
Bargou is rarely visited, and the musical tradition is insular.
The NHL's insular nature is killing it from the inside.
"The gay community in Minneapolis is very insular," he said.
Mr. Trump ran against American elites and their insular culture.
Especially in urban areas, a more insular domestic life emerged.
Both often found their insular small towns disrupted from without.
Not surprisingly, the city's local scene is still pretty insular.
They exemplify rigid beauty standards set by a small, insular group.
The royals often seem insular, closed off and wrapped in tradition.
It was both an ambitious undertaking and a remarkably insular vision.
Jet-setters are redirecting their travel plans to more insular destinations.
The United States was one collective community, not 50 insular communities.
That may seem a small and insular example of bureaucratic gamesmanship.
And so, for now, this insular world has settled on Allbirds.
Robbins commands a world both insular and utterly devoted to him.
"Insular" Scarsdale made them skittish, said Mr. Bellew, who is Hispanic.
An insular social network is not, by its very nature viral.
"They want their community to stay the same—insular, hostile, and unsafe."
As I say in the article, it's still pretty elitist and insular.
READ MORE: What does an insular US mean for rest of world?
The Syrian world is very insular, it's very protected in a way.
It was insular, self-referential, and too smart for its own good.
Can you do this without becoming nostalgic, sentimental, corny, patriotic, or insular?
The agency has often been somewhat insular and unreceptive to different ideas.
Clinton's core team at the State Department was, in some ways, insular.
It's rare that North Koreans are allowed to leave their insular country.
Magic women are a wildly underrepresented group within an already insular community.
In the Insular Cases of 1901, the court handed imperialists a victory.
For the next two decades the nation pursued an insular foreign policy.
This insular populism seems to have fueled President Trump's European flight ban.
"Swimming" released last month, was his wooziest and most insular to date.
Doesn't this person just reek of poor character, and been totally insular?
A better way of saying it is, well, it was very insular.
"I just don't see the pertinence of the Insular Cases," he said.
The danger is they become more insular and it creates more problems.
I.O., comes in for special scorn, standing for insular, uninspired, bureaucratic leadership.
We need to recall that the early insular 1901 cases Downes v.
But then when it's whiteout, it's the opposite: It's super myopic, insular.
Kyanka: It became so insular that nobody else could really enter it.
But the Trumps, fiercely insular, and the Trump-Kushners, intensely striving, are different.
He sees the overall insular culture of policing as even more to blame.
The insular socialist paradise supposedly offers a social safety-net, cradle to grave.
At the beginning of the film, she's so insular and trapped inside herself.
That means these insular humans obtained their small stature in just 300,000 years.
While Charlotte sees unity in men flocking together, huddles are also very insular.
The religions we profile on "Believer" tend to be somewhat insular and secretive.
It's making the country more insular even before it's been put into effect.
The Eastern establishment was exceedingly insular in Eisenhower's day: white, male, Protestant, preppy.
A big reason Instagram stands out is the insular nature of the app.
It has a ceiling, and at a point can become an insular cycle.
This company has an insular management team that sees itself as a partnership.
Your other films have been rather "insular," though that's probably the wrong word.
Does it want to become a new "Middle Kingdom," an insular Fortress America?
It becomes this claustrophobic, insular world where you think no one will escape.
Critics complain that Mr. Abbas's leadership has grown insular and out of touch.
Most of these justices have emerged from insular, privileged backgrounds in the meritocracy.
As you might suspect, this interview will be a much more insular enterprise.
"When it comes to living spaces, we have become very insular," Soman said.
Skating, which Chen has done nearly his whole life, is insular, even isolating.
"There's an insular atmosphere, and people get heady with power," Ms. McCaskill said.
Expat colonies can be insular, but Mérida's outlanders are establishing deep roots here.
Our tiny network of political, business and intellectual elite is insular and concentrated.
Her defense made her sound like an insular member of the DC elite.
Being accused of a crime is devastating in a conformist insular society like Japan.
In each case, previously insular communities were transformed into forces to be reckoned with.
"La La Land", the favourite to win this year, offers the same insular pleasures.
These insular senators have done real constitutional harm in the name of rank partisanship.
Listening to their music doesn't encourage you to be insular or in your feelings.
A victory for Ms Le Pen would make France poorer, more insular and nastier.
"It was pretty insular and limited to the 24chan boards," Caldwell tells The Verge.
Never one to tolerate dissent, Mr Sisi has turned deeply insular in recent weeks.
Both Clinton and Trump have relied upon an insular group of advisers this year.
Not recognizing the pipeline myth proactively only leads to a more crystallized, insular culture.
So the focus has been on Trump, who unfortunately has run an insular campaign.
But in this case the stakes are too high to let insular concerns predominate.
The survey shows that the less educated aren't quite as insular as the educated.
But again, this insular section of the population shirks most attempts to control it.
I think in a lot of ways it's unpretentious yet insular, but deeply supportive.
Like the church, it is an insular community that holds sway over young people.
But even within her insular council of advisers — like herself, unelected — there was unease.
It is an insular group, and acrimony among partners rarely spills into public view.
And even though the mood is insular and fatigued, the back story is intriguing.
Even the most insular king would occasionally visit the far parts of his realm.
The world of venture capital and banking is insular and predominately white and male.
Through the 22000s and early 250s, fandom existed on the internet in insular communities.
Norms of decency disappear when everyone is mirroring everyone else in an insular world.
Overwhelmed by the number of migrants, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.
And radical content, incubated in insular online communities, would continue to inspire mass shootings.
The McCabe case has exposed the secretive and insular nature of the police service.
High school was small and insular, but online, the world was vast and open.
Having grown up as Hollywood royalty, Coppola, 47, takes these insular worlds for granted.
Some of Buttigeig's hires have turned heads in the insular world of Democratic operatives.
"It is an insular company run by Vince McMahon," a former executive told me.
He's called his footwork riffs "social" music, but Ahnnu has traditionally been more insular.
We've turned from being an outward-facing, sharing, partnering country to being isolated and insular.
But it did function within its own insular world as a system of rational thought.
D.W. Young's documentary explores the insular world of rare book dealers in New York City.
For months, the campaign relied on an unusually small and insular operation at the top.
That is one reason why Japan, whose universities are as insular as its culture, lags.
But that's the nature of a conversation that seems universal but is in fact insular.
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Accordingly, the Hasidic world shuts out others, shunning secular influence and creating tightly insular communities.
The term "basic witch," I know, reeks of a kind of glib internet-insular condescension.
Not that we are insular or uninterested, just that no one's caught our fancy yet.
The IOC, while insular and naval-gazing, survives on its reputation and Olympic Rings copyright.
But increasingly Snapchat's insular view of design looks like a risk to its future growth.
I was a perfect example of how insular and oblivious the golf establishment can be.
And the insular Hasidim have long chosen to handle accusations of child sexual abuse themselves.
If the Insular Cases are relegated to the constitutional trash heap along with Plessy v.
I spent my laps planning how to approach a typically reporter-shy and insular population.
IT'S INSULAR, AND IT'S THEY'VE NEVER WORKED ANYWHERE ELSE, AND IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOREVER.
British boxing is traditionally insular, built on domestic match-ups—such as Chris Eubank vs.
Here's what it was like to put on a show inside the insular, communist country.
It has long been touted as a sign of modernization and "Israelization" in insular communities.
Yes it's hyperlocal and insular – but if you're in that niche audience, you'll love it.
The insular Ms. Laracey, however, badly needs awakening: She scarcely connects to anyone else onstage.
Fourth, there is a wave of insular intolerance coursing through parts of the American left.
Orthodox Jews in Jersey City certainly live an insular life, focused on strict Biblical tenets.
While many people approaching death become increasingly insular, Mr. Shields continued to expand his world.
The corporate cultural bubble or an insular, like-minded c-suite often obstructs the view.
And in the historically and notoriously insular world of higher education, that's not a given.
It's very insular here, so all the entrepreneurs in town pretty much know each other.
Can CRISPR earn the public trust, squandered in the tone-deaf, insular rollout of GMOs?
Trump wants an angry and insular America, to batten down the hatches and become the Alamo.
They could provide a valuable conduit for dissenting points of view in the insular Trump campaign.
Gymnastics is a deeply competitive sport that puts young, impressionable women into high-stakes, insular environments.
His journal contains the occasional vague observation about society, but his desires are modest and insular.
Because it was more insular, it was easier for users to feel they were among friends.
But the thrust of the discussion—border protection, returns, security—highlights the EU's grumpy, insular mood.
Over the course of 22 films, the MCU has become increasingly insular, complicated, and self-involved.
But he had continued to tolerate him; in the insular goth community, Marquis-Boire was untouchable.
I can relate to people outside the Republican base, the Democrats are insular compared to me.
Then, in the eighteenth century, these insular provincials, lured by factory work, began migrating into cities.
Up to this point, in the mid-00s, the Congress had been a largely insular affair.
China is much closer to the insular state, with which it shares a long land border.
AS ISLAND dwellers, it is hard for the British not to think in an insular way.
When art becomes a dialogue it's fascinating, when it becomes a monologue it's just really insular.
Do the people, whose instrument Trump claims to be, share his vision of an insular America?
Clinton needs a No. 2 who can ease into the insular and often distrusting Clinton orbit.
The government also saw it as insular and inhospitable to foreigners, and therefore bad for business.
The deal would be the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan's insular technology sector.
A deal would also signal the opening up of Japan's insular tech sector to foreign investment.
The genetic makeup of the people in this insular area is probably a factor as well.
But he must continue to move away from the GOP's historical insular focus on social issues.
Chance's version is both brighter and more insular; his band backs him with spare, cushioning synthesizers.
The problem with America — Mr. Trump's playground — is that we've developed an insular, conflict-averse culture.
Back in 220, the country was so insular that it had fewer than 0003,2000 foreign nationals.
But more must be done, and this is not a time to be timid or insular.
As with practically everything in New York, especially the insular world of Broadway, connections mean everything.
For the proudly insular Twins, hiring a leader from outside the organization sent a clear message.
On niche forums from 4chan to closed Facebook groups, memes peddling subversive or insular humor — e.g.
Volkswagen, known for its insular corporate culture, has been reluctant to appoint outsiders to top positions.
And yet Ebbing feels insular, with its own wrongs that nobody quite knows how to right.
It was all about this insular wonderful world, and it felt like it would never end.
"The very, very insular nature of the Washington conservative media just doesn't get it," Lord says.
On the left, intellectual culture has become increasingly insular, creating space for reactionaries on the right.
To democratize that knowledge—to expand it beyond this insular circle of scholars—was huge, and contentious.
But I'm not sure if this insular web experience is the one that I was once promised.
Google was at fault that way too, very insular against ... people did not understand what was happening.
And they're very insular, they stay to themselves, they really don't mingle, and you can't blame 'em.
Brexit, he is convinced, will make Britain more insular and deprive the EU of its "liberal heart".
Brown and Helle say it was important to get voices outside of Oslo's insular black metal scene.
Groups are a particularly tricky part of Facebook's ecosystem, because they are intimate, insular, and often opaque.
The insular nature of the way the music is made and promoted makes it difficult to track.
At least from this perspective, it seems like Chicago investors' reputation for being insular is somewhat unearned.
The revelations at Exeter are the latest to rock the insular, privileged world of American prep schools.
The company developed a unique culture: spread across the globe, but insular and often resistant to outsiders.
The tennis world is an insular world, one in which the principal figures often wear multiple hats.
First and foremost, Gvasalia and Michele's work feels exciting because it aims outside of fashion's insular bubble.
Baton Rouge has always been an insular community with few natives leaving and few outsiders moving in.
Ferguson, which was written by almost exactly the same lineup of justices who wrote the Insular Cases.
But, as the company expanded, it stopped recognizing Amish holidays and began hiring outside the insular community.
Even today, the insular community of bodysurfers is wary of both newcomers and members of the media.
Equally damaging, Mr. Tillerson's insular management style alienated or marginalized many of the department's most experienced hands.
North Korea's government is famously insular; it's unclear how well they understand signals coming out of Washington.
For centuries, the low-level presence of pot in ports and insular communities was a non-issue.
If anything, an insular, Islamophobic approach toward refugees could actually make Seoul a greater target for terrorists.
The Russian myth that Trump and Bannon have injected into the national bloodstream is static and insular.
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ: Well, as you can imagine I would say that we don't deserve the name-- insular.
" He added: "The broader sport is a little too insular, and we need to be more open.
Ancient Judaism was not nearly as insular and fearful of 'foreign' influences as some Biblical texts suggest.
It's all a very insular world that takes on enormous power through its stranglehold over the judiciary.
Both see themselves as institutional stewards of the court, particularly as an insular body free of partisan politics.
But once in a while discontent bubbles to the surface and insular startup ecosystems start arguing – and accusing.
Meanwhile, wasn't the music Pulitzer, for many decades, largely the captive of a small, insular academic music scene?
Mead argued, for instance, that American families are too insular and put too much pressure on growing children.
I think one thing is people think I'm so insular, that I'm not willing to work with others.
On the surface, they seem very insular, but they also allow enough space and relatability to be intimate.
Fresh blood is also a welcome addition to a board that has been overwhelmingly older, Swiss and insular.
Viewed from an insular Britain, Hong Kong is dangerous and alluring, just as it was 151 years ago.
The world has moved on to fully demonstrate the value of openness, transparency, and avoidance of insular thinking.
That tender observational skill and specific, insular world is what made the original popular in the first place.
In reality, the children of insular subcultures don't have a lot of choice when it comes to academics.
Since claiming the gavel, Grijalva has elevated Puerto Rico from the insular affairs panel to full committee status.
It felt so insular, so time-consuming and yet so meaningless, too, in the grand scheme of things.
He also used his speech to reject the notion that Brexit would result in Britain becoming more insular.
It's important to point out, however, that insular dwarfism in H. luzonensis remains a distinct, yet unproven, possibility.
Editor's Letter ANY MAN-MADE SYSTEM risks becoming so insular it is rendered nonsensical for those outside it.
Her failure to gain traction reaffirmed New Hampshire's reputation as an insular state that is skeptical of outsiders.
When a young person is traumatized, they shrivel and close, and their world becomes very insular and dark.
But if anything, all these championships have made Boston fans more insular, more protective of their particular fief.
The idea of getting cut off in some kind of insular, splendid isolation is not an Irish thing.
The insular elites already have collectives like this in the form of Skull and Bones and such organizations.
Overwhelmed through the spring and early summer by desperate migrants, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.
Going with Blatt would dispel the belief that Jackson is too insular, trapped in his own inner triangle.
It's in a curious position, refracting the insular country's representations of itself, trying to see what lies beneath.
It provides a more authentic look at the insular, messy, upsetting, and unglamorous world media professionals actually inhabit.
People outside the insular power politics of New York, Philadelphia, and Hartford may not have heard of WFP.
In Horn's insular community of life, each member exists for itself and for all others: predator and prey.
Otherwise, it lapses into the very "static and insular" nativism that he deplores in his thought-provoking column.
After 43 years in what is now called the European Union, the British capital has become insufferably insular.
But the loss of a rare outsider in the top ranks underscores the insular nature of the company.
Trump relies on a tight, insular group of advisers, who at times appear to have competing political agendas.
Their enormous scale and insular business models have boxed out many newer digital media companies throughout the decade.
Judges' chambers are small and insular, made up of the judge, a secretary and up to four clerks.
It is an insular subculture that is obscure to most Jews, let alone to Americans of other faiths.
It's hard to know who is to blame: Mr. Tracy's temperament or the insular nature of small towns.
They just didn't, they were insular to this group and why therefore would they care what they thought?
Our goal at UGallery has always been to democratize the insular art world and make original art accessible.
Olszewski had also noticed how Instagram and social media have democratized the insular, perhaps intimidating world of wine drinking.
These investors have criticized the Denver-based company for having an insular board that lacked racial and gender diversity.
There's also concern the White House will conduct a very insular foreign policy that continues to ignore the agencies.
It would "appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, and to Labour prejudice against competition".
One region of our brain is called the anterior insular cortex and it influences what we pay attention to.
Inner circle For most of the Republican primary, Trump has kept a small and insular political team around him.
Many singers bring to New York roles they've tested elsewhere — often at smaller theaters or insular, comfortable summer festivals.
The automaker — known for its insular culture and a carefully scripted messaging machine — has stumbled repeatedly in explaining itself.
Social media, chat rooms, WhatsApp groups, or sites like Failed Messiah become a window outside the insular Haredi world.
Those counties have two contributing factors in common: insular communities that travel internationally and lower-than-usual vaccination rates.
Egypt is exhibit A. Muhammad Morsi, the Brotherhood figure who became president, proved divisive and insular from the start.
Up until that point, we were very focused and insular, and we didn't necessarily care what other people thought.
But Mr Peltz maintains that the firm remains too insular and slow to adapt to a fast-moving market.
Growing up in a highly insular Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, I had little knowledge of secular culture.
China has flown a few payloads developed by other nations before, but its space program has mostly been insular.
Both shows center on an emotionally damaged protagonist returning to the small, insular, judgmental town where they grew up.
They connect to Internet culture and think that it is insular and that no one can hear them think.
American literature itself is—slowly—becoming more self-critical, more hard-edged, and thus less insular and self-satisfied.
As it stands right now, our insular government operates with a massive structural debt estimated at over $2628,28500 million.
"We need to make our communication insular," an unnamed top government official was quoted as saying by the paper.
Compared with Wood's massive canvas, Waller-Bridge's relatively smaller-scale work in Fleabag could seem very small and insular.
Campaigns are so insular that reporting one colleague could jeopardize chances of working for another on a later campaign.
But the paper's insular focus continues to be on issues that aren't important to the vast majority of Americans.
McCain's father-in-law, Douglas Domenech, is the current assistant United States secretary of the Interior for insular areas.
When the play begins, Silver and Dolores have just returned from abroad to their insular, tranquilizingly color-coded apartment.
That those Supreme Court precedents, the much-reviled Insular Cases, are still part of American law is an embarrassment.
At a time when identity is presumed to be clannish and insular, it offered solidarity on a vast scale.
Before India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's semi-autonomous status, people in the mostly-Muslim state lived politically insular lives.
Like so many such insular, embattled enclaves, her "area," as she often refers to it, is suffocating and inescapable.
Now throw an outsider into this insular society, and see if she sinks or swims or makes tidal waves.
But she can also appear to some to be overly suspicious, insular, often nontransparent, and prone to cutting corners.
And, like any insular group, the Fraternal Order of Trump, when faced with allegations, circles the wagons ever tighter.
This style of hands-on management has made Cheserek an enigma to an already insular and suspicious track community.
Because non-medical cannabis cultivation is still illegal, the culture surrounding these scenes tends to be insular and secretive.
"I think this board is insular, ripe with conflicts; it's the poster child for bad corporate governance," she said.
Turkey today is a different place from the insular, closed society of the 1970s, yet it remains intensely polarized.
This device, in which he wrote of himself or someone impersonating him, was technically accomplished but far too insular.
To him, the tech corporations seem more like insular empires than companies with deep ties to their local neighbourhoods.
A special kind of insular politics became dominant, laced with civic activism and resentment toward the City Hall establishment.
They're used to relying on word-of-mouth recommendations, a system that keeps their circle as insular as possible.
Donald Trump's White House has been described as insular, with the president himself largely isolated from the Washington establishment.
The Repentagon trained me to feel at ease in odd, insular, extreme environments, and Christianity formed my deepest instincts.
To the Editor: A prison system's disciplinary system is entirely insular, with officers judging other officers' charges against inmates.
Much of the apparent action so far has been out of the powerful, insular US Attorney's Office in Manhattan.
They are still predominantly Irish-speaking, insular and, as even in Synge's era, considered a place lost in time.
The startup was buzzy in that insular world before then, though its business model was never clear to outsiders.
An insular and conservative politician, he has few personal friends or allies in politics or in the business community.
People's lives are atomized and insular, with only the next happy hour or marriage as a salve to despair.
"The folk tradition of the insular Celts seems to present to the mind a half-aquatic world," he later wrote.
It's unfortunate that the company appears to be enforcing such a sweeping response to an insular, albeit very serious, issue.
You have to go further into being insular and like 'this space, we definitely won't be letting in anyone different.
Soon I found myself in the insular City of Saint Francis, belted round by wharves, beaches, and anti-housing NIMBYs.
The Zookeeper's Wife star says her family "is not an insular group" Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
In short, the once-insular and insulated world of the Internet was actively spreading its tentacles into the real world.
"Nestle's insular, complacent, and bureaucratic organization is overly complex, lethargic, and misses too many trends," Loeb said in the letter.
A big reason for this is right-wing media, which has become increasingly insular and invested in Trump's political success.
She relies on a closed circle of advisers with an insular outlook and little sense of how the economy works.
Why should we suppose that 6,000 members of an insular and entitled professional association would be reliable judges of quality?
Sheryl Sandberg: And I think tech has long been, as an industry, pretty insular, and I think that's changing, too.
After three and a half minutes of whirling club fare, "Come We Go" morphs into something more insular and insistent.
The typical American college student today—the typical American student activist today—doesn't attend a tiny, insular liberal arts college.
The above video tells the story of how America changed from an insular former colony to a globe-spanning superpower.
Which, rather than disproving the caricature of Trump as insular and partial to "yes" men, only served to reinforce it.
The Insular Cases, by contrast, remain good law and are still the basis of Puerto Rico's form of sovereign limbo.
"I think it tells you that tennis is a little bit more insular," he said of the federation's initial approval.
His attacks on the foreign policy elite as insular, self-protecting, and detached from the public resonate with many voters.
West Virginia is also a pretty insular culture: People don't travel much, and being close to your family is important.
In 2006 her family moved to Arizona to join an insular church that promoted home schooling and strict patriarchal authority.
And once in that loop, it can be impossible to break out of Silicon Valley's viscously insular ways of thinking.
George showed up in Asheville, N.C., where the skate scene was somewhat insular, and we skated together a few times.
Despite this, my parents rely on a small, insular, Korean-speaking immigrant community in nearly every aspect of their lives.
The message to bankers, businesspeople and high-rolling investors was clear: The once-insular kingdom is now open for business.
But this movie might only narrowly pass the Bechdel test, and mustering sympathy for Annette's affluent, insular circle is difficult.
Tessa and Scott were much more projecting out to the crowd, whereas Gabby and Guillaume were more insular, inward programs.
A holdover from the colonial era, the council is often criticized as an insular group with little to no accountability.
They had driven over from Glendive, a town five hours east near the North Dakota border — rural, insular, and white.
I think the Midwest edge makes our content much more relatable and less insular than what's produced on the coasts.
Other women have said they had to overcome sexual harassment, insular networks of men, and being pigeonholed into specific stories.
What happens when an insular subset of society encodes governing systems intended for use by the majority of the planet?
His missives provided the most direct look yet at an often private mayor and his insular close circle of advisers.
On a cursory listen, pop that reached millions of listeners in 2019 still comes across as sparse, insular and alienated.
Then, we overlay our own cognitive biases onto the filtered news they provide, thereby creating a second, more insular filter.
Okay, so there's— David Faber interviewed you and he said that your— that— that basically Ackman said your company's insular.
In the nineteen-thirties, Moku o Lo'e was bought by an eccentric millionaire who fashioned it into an insular Xanadu.
We have to shake ourselves up psychologically, reconnect with the needs of others, and get out of our insular worlds.
As a result, communities form on their own, typically around channels or personalities, and they tend to be pretty insular.
But as he's become more famous, his work has turned more insular, and more preoccupied with the wages of fame.
The dramatis personae is rounded out by Mary Bennett (Naian González Norvind), a young actress new to this insular world.
Starting in the 1940s, the cafe was where Italian men met to play cards, but the crowd today is less insular.
Both CtW and Amalgamated Bank criticized the Denver-based company for having an insular board that lacked racial and gender diversity.
Last week, before the impeachment vote, Seoul accused its insular northern neighbor of hacking its military intranet and leaking confidential information.
I do believe that everyone involved is legitimately looking for new startup opportunities and increasingly frustrated with San Francisco's insular culture.
But as my colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany pointed out, the strange popularity of these posts is an effect of Tumblr's insular community.
When a band tours as much as we did you become a little insular to the reality outside of your van.
But Johnson and Weld first have to navigate an openly hostile convention, characterized by its insular proceedings and unwelcome to moderates.
Previous attempts to bring in outside executives had failed, rejected by the insular Facebook culture like prospective nannies in Mary Poppins.
His departure marked a rare shake-up on Facebook's insular M-team, whose composition had remained largely unchanged for many years.
However, Guatemala's claim is to its territorial, insular and maritime rights, which are based on international law and universal legal principles.
Most recent large outbreaks have been in insular religious or immigrant groups, such as the Amish, Orthodox Jews and Somali-Americans.
Without this exchange we would become more culturally isolated and insular, and ultimately more remote from where progress is being made.
These vernacular images, and their implied circulation across people and time, unsettle what is otherwise depicted as a still, insular space.
Fredrik Erixon, head of Brussels think tank European Centre for International Political Economy, said that Sweden's corporate culture was too insular.
They've even taken the story to r/SubredditDrama, where the insular beefs of niche communities are aired to the broader public.
YouTube's deep culture of veneration among fans creates an insular, often accountability-proof bubble around its biggest stars (see also: PewDiePie).
INCJ had been seen as strong favorite to take over Sharp and keep Japan's insular tech industry out of foreign hands.
Research has found that comedies can activate the insular cortex and amygdala regions of the brain needed for a balanced mood.
"It's an insular colony of insects into which walks a foreigner, and he's initially rejected because he's different," Bennett told Reuters.
Beatrice is a small, insular town, and once people's minds are made up it is all but impossible to change them.
But more recently the country's insular ways have come under assault from two industries that connect Jamaica to the outside world.
But when I looked back at the tape, one of the big things I saw was that I was very insular.
Conversely, the pushback against immigrants in both nations is often strongest in insular rural areas that have actually experienced little immigration.
One explanation for the gap: politics is insular, and many campaigns hire staffers who worked on campaigns in the previous cycle.
The script itself eventually steps outside the artificial, insular world of the upper classes whose absurdities Wilde mapped so meticulously. Mrs.
In those cases, the writers might be competitors in their topic area, or the review might read as boring or insular.
The orca's paralimbic lobe is highly developed, as is its insular cortex, both of which relate to social emotions and awareness.
You might think that, unlike Lorca's insular rustic community, latter-day London is a place to be anonymous, should once choose.
This suggests the famously insular Trump might be swayed to reverse the current laissez-faire approach taken by federal enforcement agencies.
Ironically, as conservative Muslims became more insular, moderate and liberal Muslims like me are left at the front line of confrontations.
Most people in the insular world of golf talk as if they cannot wait to see Woods, 41, return to competition.
Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticized for mistreating the people in their care, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.
I'm still new at this job, and my role is generally insular, so I don't have close friends at work yet.
I share apprehensions about President-elect Trump, but I also fear the reaction was evidence of how insular universities have become.
But his outsider status will be a liability, our Frankfurt correspondent writes, as he seeks to restructure the notoriously insular company.
Over the past few decades, Rockland's ultra-Orthodox community has gone from a small, insular group, to a significant voting bloc.
Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron said Tory MPs had "earned the labels" of "insular and inhumane" by voting against the measures.
By convincing you that voting in America is a complex business, the insular group of election "experts" sees their influence grow.
As an example, one of the things that was talked about in the presentation was how insular our technology organization was.
Utilitarian and Kantian theories were dominant at the time, and Nussbaum felt that the field had become too insular and professionalized.
Over the past few decades, Rockland's ultra-Orthodox community has gone from a small, insular group, to a significant voting bloc.
The result is an insular, ideological treatment of our complex world, substantially unimpaired by facts and dismissive of United States interests.
But it has also intensified long-smoldering tensions between the rapidly expanding and insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and secular society.
Drug addiction in the era of the British System was confined to a tiny, insular community, largely centered around London's Soho.
And look, Amazon was incredibly insular and is now doing incredible things in the city of Seattle and that's 20 years.
I have to work on that in my day-to-day life, because even as an artist, it becomes so insular.
In ''Special Providence,'' the author Walter Russell Mead identifies four prevailing schools of thought about American politics: a Hamiltonian tradition, concerned with commerce and trade; a Wilsonian tradition of foreign intervention; a Jeffersonian tradition of an insular society defined by its civil liberties; and a Jacksonian tradition that's even more insular and martial, unconcerned with global outreach.
The MRI scans indicated that misophonics had an extremely active anterior insular cortex (AIC), an area of the brain associated with emotions.
Second, the US conservative movement has become increasingly tribal, insular, and disconnected from the institutions and norms that bind American democracy together.
In such an insular race, voters commitments to cast a ballot in a certain way don't always materialize and anything can happen.
The screen adaptation is weightless and insular, just a bunch of tech people talking about the fantasies they have about world domination.
At the same time, Volkswagen is an insular company based in a country that prefers to tightly manage and script press interactions.
Researchers found that the brain's amygdala and insular cortex were more active in people who were most resistant to changing their beliefs.
One of the main reasons that I moved to New York firstly was because I'd always been a kind of insular person.
It is, by choice, an intensely isolated and insular group, in which a Hasidic family with 10 children doesn't raise an eyebrow.
The world of genre movies can be an insular one, with low budgets and distribution difficulties that hinder even well-regarded projects.
President Trump, however, has staked out a far more insular, transactional and sovereignty-minded posture, and the consequences have already reverberated globally.
In the particularly contentious and insular world of Latin trap, he existed on the defensive, even when he wasn't a primary target.
The world of media admittedly loves its insular circle jerks, and that's perhaps best epitomized by its obnoxious reverence for the tote.
It's not just an insular and old-fashioned English viewpoint either: progressive cosmopolitan figures like Pep Guardiola and Ronald Koeman feel similarly.
" Insular and interested only in family, the Rubins initially greet the idea of an adoption as taking on "a used human being.
The art world — a term he deplored — was too insular, and the art historians and critics did very little to mitigate this.
Later, he made his life in Britain — the home of a freedom that, to him, was not insular but European and universal.
González and Soto are both members of the Natural Resources Committee, and González is the top Republican on the insular affairs subcommittee.
I know the signs and symptoms of when people are drowning — people just stop communicating, and they become more and more insular.
The theme park that is Cuba is an insular museum, stuck between the Iron Curtain and the industrial capitalism of the 1950s.
The music—which is heavy, with melodic, pop undertones—rides the tension of being fierce and expansive while paradoxically insular and uneasy.
As the community shrinks and becomes more insular, tolerance for interference or outsiders unfamiliar with the forum's norms has declined as well.
College basketball is often an insular world, where coaches playing not to lose are too conservative to institute new schemes and ideas.
Meanwhile, people who feel perfectly comfortable living in squalor may have decreased activity in the brain's insular cortex and amygdala, research suggests.
Instead, he said it was important the exchange resolve the probe and alter an outside perception that NSE is insular and opaque.
Most of us live in insular media and social bubbles that provide us with Pravda-like affirmations of our own moral superiority.
Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh belonged to overlapping social circles in the insular world of elite college preparatory schools in Washington.
It's a bid to differentiate the characters and inject an Everyman foil to the insular and often absurd podcaster culture on display.
But there's also a risk that this dialogue with technology becomes little more than an echo chamber, too insular and self-validating.
You had interactions with them, but you worked for what was still a pretty insular old media company at that time. Definitely.
Recently, he's been researching Black Shakers — members of the insular and diminishing Christian sect known for ecstatic trembling and sleek, minimalist furniture.
But stockpiling massive caches of toilet paper and bottled water for insular forts will only lead to more shortages and more stress.
Their histories coalesced, in Dr. Blasey's telling, in the early 1980s, in the insular, moneyed world of Washington private college preparatory schools.
Garcia is among the candidates winning support from normally taciturn FBI insiders even though he never worked for the famously insular bureau.
Similarly, conspiracies have always run amok in fandom, from insular TV show conspiracies to vast and multi-layered conspiracies about band members.
Part of the difficulty that black women face in accessing capital is breaking into the insular networks of banking and venture capital.
Mr. Salee said that in such a small, insular community, the pressure of not disappointing his elders kept him from acting up.
The issue has become especially acute in places like Wall Street and Silicon Valley, which have long been insular, male-dominated ecosystems.
She networked, she schmoozed, she even learned to golf — whatever it took to break into the insular boys club of investment banking.
Spencer and Heidi's world became more insular as negative media coverage of Speidi increased, and they mostly hung out with each other.
Austen's novels were prescribed reading for shell-shocked soldiers who would not be reminded of their trauma by her gentle, seemingly insular narratives.
Unfortunately, Views seems content with neither, more interested in fighting its insular battles and scoring easy points just when the stakes are highest.
And because "professorial sorts" who have spent time at universities drift into an "insular political culture," their candidate was doomed to lose. 17.
From superdelegates to caucuses that unintentionally disenfranchise parents, shift workers, disabled communities and the elderly, we have become insular and out of touch.
Across the street from an insular, self-sustaining suburban mall isn't a very happy place to have a coffee shop or cleaning service.
Well, they've been really insular in their co-dependent relationship, and they've also been through a lot between Toby's health and the miscarriage.
Meanwhile, Catholics, many of whom identified with their religious and cultural compatriots in the Republic of Ireland, formed their own similarly insular neighborhoods.
"The real significance of this morning's denial of review has everything to do with the continuing relevance of the Insular cases," Vladeck said.
Apple came from nowhere to dominate an insular market, eventually integrated with it, and brought some of its best elements to everywhere else.
These are bad inside jokes, embarrassing markers of an insular culture that never anticipated having to explain itself in a court of law.
" In subsequent tweets, she mentioned that within the insular goth community of Auckland, New Zealand, he was known as "goth Morgan the rapist.
New FEC reports this week revealed several major donors to Trump who have little track record in the insular world of GOP fundraising.
History has repeatedly shown that a reliable way to fuel nationalistic, insular, populist politics is to ignore the downsides of disruptive economic change.
And it paints the picture of people who are so insular that they won't leave their hometown, even when economic conditions are subpar.
It's a bit more dazed, hazy, and insular, a collection of inward-focused tracks for when you're too afraid to leave your house.
When I questioned one senior manager about the insular nature that government has become she had the audacity to blame it on "security".
Of course, the electric and self-driving car industries have proven to be so insular in their infancy that these poachings happen often.
The community is insular, and was unlikely to welcome outsiders offering their teen-agers free pregnancy tests or screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Trump is campaigning on fear, change and winning, all intense and even seductive ideas, even though his proposals are insular, unrealistic or hollow.
"Colleges and universities can be a bit insular," Catherine Frank, executive director at the Osher Institute at U.N.C. Asheville, wrote in an email.
That's all the more true when citizens live in insular communities, surrounded by people and media that reflect the same views and assumptions.
When John Berger's Ways of Seeing came out in 1972, an entire generation gained access to an often elitist and insular art world.
Besides Zinke, Interior has only two Senate-confirmed official in place: Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt and Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs Doug Domenech.
This is the insular world in which tens of thousands of Americans who use conservative political apps are experiencing the midterm election season.
Baltimore has always had a scene that's insular in that way, full of people making cool weird stuff for the sake of it.
One particular challenge is fighting disinformation in tight-knit or insular communities, who might attend a rally but not see hashtags on Twitter.
They largely consider the school, rather than the town, to be their home; their political concerns tend to the insular or the lofty.
This odd arrangement dates to 1901 and the so-called Insular Cases, a series of Supreme Court rulings led by Downes v. Bidwell.
If the contemporary dance field seems insular at times, the recent transitions, resembling a game of musical chairs, may have reinforced that reputation.
Like the Hell's Kitchen club, the Grand Street club candidates criticized their entrenched opponents as being part of insular and outdated political machines.
The insular valley of Setesdal is opening itself to visitors, hoping to embrace the modern age while fighting to protect its unique traditions.
For years they share an insular, antisocial utopia, united by their anticapitalist eagerness to eke out an existence eating boiled nettles and acorns.
The Post report reads:  Most of his interactions are with an insular circle of political aides who are new to the State Department.
Whereas previous efforts could seem insular or nihilistic, the new show sees Mr. Powhida earnestly broadening his scope and digging deeper than before.
A few of the 105 recommendations concern the board itself, a structurally insular institution whose voting members are primarily determined by current membership.
Critics of the arrangement say it has contributed to an insular culture and reinforced the business partners' long-term obligations to one another.
As our news cycle continues to center on an increasingly autocratic US administration and worldviews become more insular, their fights cannot be ignored.
Novelist · Age: 19 · Genre: Grime A rapper and producer from Lewisham, in South London, he has refreshed the insular and competitive grime scene.
But like a Chinese finger trap, even more insular political decision-making only makes things worse, fueling the distrustful populism, until ... Donald Trump!
Mr. Dorsey has said he would seek additional outside candidates for the board, which has been criticized as insular and dominated by company insiders.
Born in the Ukraine in 1899, she immigrated as a young child with her Jewish family to the insular coastal community of Rockland, Maine.
It's odd, creative and intensely insular, dropping viewers into a mysteriously monochromatic, near future world where everyone is emotionless and dressed in crisp whites.
Initially, information flowed in chronological order, unfiltered, strictly concise, and mostly from strangers, which distinguished the platform from the more insular and curated Facebook.
Mr Conte said that, while blind federalism was no answer to Europe's problems, neither was a return to the insular nationalism of the past.
From Anna Wintour to Diane von Furstenberg, the group is comprised of fashion veterans who are very much a part of Vogue's insular world.
YouTube, for a while, felt like an incredibly insular platform where people didn't really have an expectation of being seen or heard by everyone.
Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated by men who almost exclusively speak to each other.
The San Francisco-based investment firm is one of very few that is focused narrowly on the industry, which remains fairly insular for now.
Instead of staying in the insular environment, he started to pull out every influence coursing through his head to create something different for himself.
On Wednesday, a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska native Affairs will look at legislation to improve the Indian Health Service.
He countered Peltz's claims P&G is too insular, saying it is working to hire more outsiders, though could move faster in that regard.
In our insular media world, BuzzFeed — the digital journalism darling of the last three years — has had a few problems with hype as well.
"Either lone actors or small, insular groups continue to gravitate toward simple tactics that do not require advance skills or outside training," he said.
As well as heightening her anxiety, it has transformed the way she interacts with people, making her more insular and less open with strangers.
Your process sounds less like making music, traditionally, than how some other kinds of art are made, ones that are more solo or insular.
At the time, I had just quit high school in my insular Central Coast hometown and was working at a record store full-time.
In spite of her worldly connections, she has the unexpected ingenuousness of those rare aristocrats who are still safely contained within their insular history.
That was already a groundbreaking decision among the insular ultra-Orthodox, where even for a man to enroll in a secular university was rare.
"I feel sorry sometimes for the Americans and their insular view that the end all and be all is America," Dave McMillan tells me.
Venezuela, too, has a market-dominant minority: the light-skinned, insular elite that historically controlled the country's corporate sector and its staggering oil wealth.
It's hard to imagine how a guy like this who became a billionaire so young, became so powerful, doesn't become totally insular and detached.
Policies involving the building, deployment, targeting and use of nuclear weapons have long been the province of an insular, innovation-averse group of men.
Ojai was considered a little insular and Eurocentric; its music directors were frequently conductors, and they'd come back for return stints, again and again.
The notion that poets live in some insular world, isolated from all that surrounds them, is too silly to be endorsed by your newspaper.
In May 2010, her daughter Shannan disappeared, leaving behind only a panicked 911 call from Oak Beach, a gated, insular community on Long Island.
It should not be shocking that American foreign policy professionals — a relatively small and insular community — would indulge this very human habit as well.
He joined the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in his first term and rose to become the ranking Republican member by 1981.
A small Icelandic genetics company made headlines in 2013 when it developed an app to prevent accidental incest in the insular country's dating scene.
The company's stance reflects the importance placed on loyalty at Volkswagen, as well as the insular mentality that prevails at corporate headquarters in Wolfsburg.
Nike, seen by many as an insular organization that can be tough for outsiders to navigate, has looked outside the company before for leadership.
Yet for people like Captain Nettleton and the Turs, the base is also a small, insular town, with boozy backyard barbecues and a McDonald's.
In their insular world, law clerks and staff may be intimidated by a judge or otherwise worried about harming their careers by speaking out.
Partes del Centro Histórico están construidas sobre un antiguo lago, en el centro de donde estuvo Tenochtitlán, la magnífica ciudad insular del Imperio azteca.
" It's an alternate, insular world where I find myself running through a field, streaked in war paint, chanting: "We have spirit, because we're Blues!
People feel more comfortable in their insular neighborhoods, but self-segregation is damaging to one's own open-mindedness and to the country at large.
As a Hasidic Jew, she spent her childhood with eight siblings in the Yiddish-speaking and largely insular Satmar sect in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
The idea that somehow we can forge our future in an insular way, even for the biggest countries like the U.S., is a fantasy.
It was during a recent discussion of children's health care that we got a taste of the moral fantasies of the insular political elites.
Mr. Kelly, accustomed to working within the vast military apparatus, has a more outward-looking, strategic approach than most on Mr. Trump's insular team.
For decades, this community of Hasidic Jews, about 21.9 miles northwest of New York City, lived an existence that was insular, but also expansive.
These monasteries, established at such places as St. Amand, St. Vaast, and St. Bertin, introduced Insular illumination to the Franks and made it Continental.
And recent research tells us that when we poke and prod at these tribal identities, we can make one another angry and more insular.
That's not to say that there's no risk when it comes to North Korea: An insular, nuclear-armed rogue state is a scary thing.
Both CtW Investment Group and Amalgamated Bank had previously criticized the Denver-based company for having an insular board that lacked racial and gender diversity.
Once seen as being at the forefront of the avant-garde art scene, we now risk being dismissed as an insular society, refusing to progress.
Dozens of major publishers want a piece of the pie, and self-funding their own insular tournaments is the easiest way to claim a slice.
The CDC's immunization unit is well aware of the challenge and is now trying to shift its focus to reaching insular communities with vaccine doubts.
DIMINISHING DICTATORSHIP Cuba's insular policies began to thaw a bit in 1998, when Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the nation.
But part of the rationale behind her three-day visit to the insular and isolated community was that its small, homogenous population facilitates such studies.
Sweden's embassy in Pyongyang, which represents several Western nations in the insular nation, also helped, according to a statement from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
There's this Brexit metaphor in the insular alien group being willing to jump off buildings, wearing British flags, just to avoid being contaminated by outsiders.
They were working off a body of research showing that exposing yourself to different people and cultures can change your perspective — make you less insular.
"It's got a nice reputation as being a special place," Larry Massie, a Michigan historian, said, though he added it could also be somewhat insular.
Also, I was talking with someone recently about how Silicon Valley companies, especially, have become very insular, and they make it so people don't leave.
If nominated and confirmed, he would be the first person born in one of the insular territories of the U.S. to serve as Interior secretary.
"I think the fact that work was being done in an insular company was one big factor," Chairman Osamu Masuko said at a news conference.
In the quieter, more insular world of independent music, collaboration is more typically an act of solidarity among artists who share experiences and musical interests.
This suggests a crisis of representation at the heart of insular politics that has led to the lack of a grand strategy for the future.
It stepped, for a time, into the shadows of the national stage because of its guilt, shame and anger, growing only more insular and misunderstood.
The largest landmass in the Western Maritime and Insular Command, overseen by an admiral, is a rocky archipelago with little vegetation and no permanent residents.
He both pulls you out of the insular space you'd normally occupy processing his music on headphones, while simultaneously burying you deep in your feelings.
Communities of queer women can be especially insular, and being part of a tight group can be tough for someone looking for a clean break.
I know a recruiter — with a particular industry focus — who only hired from his Rolodex of contacts, which meant hiring incredibly insular and limited teams.
Their relationship played out in the insular world of Washington, where young, ambitious journalists compete for scoops while navigating relationships with powerful, often older, sources.
Given the insular nature of the country and the crackdown, Saudi officials are likely to make the most headway seizing assets within their own borders.
What Greer does in Circles is take disparate creative genres to create a masterful film that is anchored to the insular skateboard world of NYC.
Ms. Hicks, a reluctant émigré to insular Washington, kept a tiny circle of confidants, complaining that she could not trust anyone in a company town.
This fleeting glimpse of the show-goers that made DBA such a success could, in larger doses, have kept the documentary from feeling so insular.
That spectacle, playing out as Britain remains locked in a stalemate over Brexit, has underscored how insular a courtship ritual the race to succeed Mrs.
Mr. Macron, trying to shed his image as an insular and self-regarding emissary of elites, held a flurry of meetings with unions and others.
Clarke-Stone said that when she was working with these companies, everything they were doing felt insular, and didn't invite a lot of outside ideas.
My friend is not a racist, but she was raised in an insular white community, and she has not reflected sufficiently on her white privilege.
She survives among her insular country neighbors by being slightly terrifying — keeping ferocious dogs, for example — but also by not asking or expecting to belong.
Nor will he have any protection from retribution in the insular world of California politics, where former staffers, strategists, lawmakers and lobbyists often cross paths.
Leifer fled from Australia in 2008 with what Australian authorities believe was the assistance of the insular Adass Jewish community, after accusations against her surfaced.
Of the agencies within the Interior Department whose directors require Senate confirmation, only the Bureau of Reclamation and Office of Insular Affairs have confirmed heads.
But perhaps nothing compares to a kosher pizza war, pitting 21st-century foodie-ism against the decidedly 19th-century world of an insular Hasidic neighborhood.
But in Derek's case, he was raised in this very insular world in which every influential person in his life believed this to be true.
Many experts on North Korea, one of the most insular and unpredictable countries in the world, remain skeptical Kim will ever completely abandon nuclear weapons.
You're in a fantastic but insular world, and to find something else gratifying and financially viable to do with your life is really difficult and scary.
"My first record was so serious," she says now, having sat back down, as I ask what it felt like being within that tight, insular energy.
By now, word of his influence has gotten around: Barrack serves as the connective fiber between his elite circles and the insular, Breitbart-infused Trump Tower.
Like those films, Velvet Buzzsaw is full of acidly overbright, larger-than-life figures who hold particular parts of their insular creative world up for mockery.
At this point, political analysts said, Pugh's biggest bargaining chip is her refusal to resign in a city accustomed to a high-drama, insular political culture.
Although you wouldn't be wrong to say that New Square is a small, insular monoculture, in epidemiological terms it has the characteristics of an international city.
News organizations paying serious attention to forums like 4chan and Reddit make it easy for politically motivated, otherwise insular memes to accrue power at astonishing speeds.
All but four were hired in September 2016 or later, proving just how much fresh blood has entered a once insular community of former batting champions.
In an insular community where some don't take kindly to intrusion, residents blame the outbreak largely on a hardline minority opposed to vaccinations, or anti-vaxers.
The Denver-based company has faced criticism from investors for having an insular board that lacked racial and gender diversity, which, according to CtW Investment Group.
China, however, has only emerged as a global manufacturing power since the 2100s, as it moved from an insular communist country to a major manufacturing power.
In the insular campus setting where students had once felt safe, police started questioning those with knowledge of Plunkett's activities and easy access to his room.
This is the first of a three-part series on insular enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the struggles they face and the controversies that follow them.
This is the last of a three-part series on insular enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the struggles they face, and the controversies that follow them.
This is the second of a three-part series on insular enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the struggles they face and the controversies that follow them.
Great minds, we are told, no longer captivate the public as they once did, because the university is too insular and academic thinking is too narrow.
Chris (Hahn), a fledgling indie filmmaker, follows her husband Sylvère (Griffin Dunne), a Holocaust scholar, from New York to the insular artistic oasis of Marfa, Texas.
The independent, nonprofit groups tend to see themselves as 2150st-century security outfits charged with protecting an insular population whose culture is rooted in preindustrial Europe.
He saw no conflict in following a conservative approach to interpreting the vision of the framers and defending individual rights, particularly for insular or unpopular groups.
Consider, for instance, the absurdity of having to file Electronic Export Information (EEI) when Puerto Rico is the only insular possession within the U.S. customs territory.
There were many good cops in Boston in those days, but there was also an insular culture that had some racist, brutal, corrupt and lazy elements.
"Kicks" portrays an insular culture of poverty and violence in which bored, aimless young people do little beyond smoking dope, drinking beer and competing for power.
As of yet, it is not clear whether Rossellós remarks were made for purposes of local, insular politics, or whether he aims to challenge Congress itself.
From the start of his national political career, Trump's insular, racially confrontational agenda and belligerent personal style have thrilled many blue-collar, older and rural whites.
Wanting to see what I might find in less commonly traveled parts of the city, I took a ride out to areas that felt more insular.
It's about the peculiar, intense intimacy of adolescent female friendships, and how they can become so insular and all-consuming as to feel like a cult.
Another was fiercely triggered by the insular, clannish, insider-y culture that often left her feeling like an outsider, even though she was an industry vet.
Mr. Abdeslam's Molenbeek was an even more insular sub-community, made up of small-time drug dealers and petty criminals, unemployed young men with few prospects.
Her narrowly focused behavior can be hard to watch; in these moments, Dory's focus becomes just as insular and self-serving as that of her friends.
But that safety comes at a cost, and that is that we don't develop or communicate with the rest of the world, and it's very insular.
As he searches for the inspiration he's lost, more and more strange guests begin arriving at the house, and her insular world becomes a living hell.
But at 27, prompted by the idea that "time was running out," she released some of the more insular songs she'd been accumulating over the years.
Caitlin, now 24, was raised in a very insular, fundamentalist Christian household, which she says was quite similar to the world of Bill Gothard's IBLP-ATI.
It largely functioned on an highly insular culture of creators and fans who generated memes that would explode and burn out before mainstream culture ever noticed.
The world of a cappella can feel insular, with its own practices, codes and in-jokes, as much a commitment to heritage as to vocal excellence.
We worry that the Britain that opened up to European tastes will start to fade away; that we will revert to being insular, backward, porridge people.
Produced by DJ Dahi with Nice Rec, it's appealingly insular, fill of lyrics about what a joy it is to be the one to save yourself.
And already many are trashing its investigation into the Fowler allegations as too insular and cooked, calling it a sham even before it has really started.
And as Russia became more insular after the conflict with the West over Ukraine, Russia's rappers were looking outward, taking inspiration and borrowing from foreign cultures.
Dedicated kink venues—actual safe spaces free from stigma and hostility—cultivate a less insular, more sociable scene than social media or dating apps ever can.
But the long-term result could be a Congress that is more insular, as well as an increase in situations such as the new tax law.
Explain for people how they get in that situation, because they're in a very ... I was doing first a pressure cooker environment, a very insular environment.
But in an insular community with a complex apparatus of organizations to service people in need, acts of this nature are everyday occurrences -- not the exception.
The story was no less original: it was about a warrior baroness summoned to an insular palace balanced on a pedestal, like an Eero Saarinen tabletop.
But Mr. Müller, who has spent his entire career at Volkswagen or its subsidiaries, struggled to deliver on his promise to remake the company's insular culture.
But if the insular nature of the event might have prompted depressing thoughts about tap's general popularity, the family reunion part was as heartening as ever.
Yet over the course of eight episodes, Living With Yourself becomes a beautiful, insular labyrinth, with twists and cliffhangers that would have Game of Thrones shaking.
It is, to state the obvious, not surprising that such a thing would not come naturally to people as insular and proudly selfish as the Trumps.
A tale of an insular populace that doesn't think twice before opening its arms to an international throng of strangers automatically acquires a near-utopian nimbus.
Another Bush administration veteran, Douglas W. Domenech, has been tapped to lead the department's insular affairs unit, which administers policy for the United States' overseas territories.
These days, one often hears laments that academia has become too insular, that scholars aren't willing to participate in the hurly-burly of real-world debate.
The New Yorker interview revealed that McCary and Costello grew up in insular religious households, and that all three felt like outsiders during their formative years.
Shares of this kind are widely held by big funds despite their concerns that the limited voting rights can lead to insular boards and poor corporate oversight.
The president's decision to skip the WHCA dinner arrives at a time when even journalists have questioned whether the event has become too insular and self-congratulatory.
If anything, this conduct has made her more insular, as she uses social media to nurse her grudges and coddle her fanbase while alienating almost everyone else.
It's a platform he thought would have a wider impact than the insular community—"an echo chamber," he said—they had previously formed on Facebook and Instagram.
Alex, Bradley, and the rest of the Morning Show team operate with a positively Westerosi sensibility about the climate and power structure of their insular, influential world.
It's a notable change from the kind of relationship Pelosi had with the insular, mercurial Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid when she last held the speaker's gavel.
Now they're being blamed for its recent bankruptcy, with former employees and industry experts citing their insular management style, disastrous real estate deals and bungled merchandising strategy.
When people get into relationships, they tend to be more insular, whereas single people also stay in touch with friends, neighbors, siblings, and parents, Dr. DePaulo says.
But they also raise questions about the limits of corporate power—and about a tech industry already seen as insular retreating further into a self-imposed bubble.
It's not clear that democracy can survive having a third of the population hived off into its own insular world, with its own institutions, authorities, and facts.
Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Doug Domenech was the director for the fueling freedom project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation before joining the department.
And Wilde wasn't the only celeb who decided to don the safety pin as a statement against some of the more insular ideas of the Trump presidency.
There is no caricature in her portrayal, and none of the blanket condemnation that's so often present in works dealing with such an insular and rigid community.
Its heavily criticized narrow perspective does make sense in the context of the insular, classist culture of Nick's family, who are largely poised as the film's antagonists.
In both stories, it takes a native to properly infiltrate a cloistered, insular small town, and to be accepted at least far enough to investigate its mysteries.
I APPRECIATE THE REDUCTION IN THE CORPORATE TAX RATE, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T BECOME TOO INSULAR IN THE PROCESS.
Weber is still the chief creative force behind Pantha du Prince, but The Triad is warm and collaborative where his other full-lengths were icy and insular.
The art gallery world that I had been exposed too felt too insular, and I enjoyed the practical nature of design and the myriad applications of it.
On the call with shareholders, Whitman, Taylor and Moeller rejected Peltz's allegations that P&G had an insular culture, stressing that the company's streamlining had reduced complexities.
If Sharp and Foxconn overcome the latest hitch and sign a deal, it would be the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan's insular technology sector.
After a hearing last week in Washington of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, a consensual deal at PREPA seemed in jeopardy.
Naturally, as Curry's fame crosses over from the relatively insular world of the sports-obsessed into mainstream culture–thanks, Prince, and you're right about this Curry kid!
The town where they live seems insular and depressed, and without a car or a crew of his own, Jack is stuck inside a limited, claustrophobic territory.
From one direction, Trump is pulling the GOP further toward his insular and racially infused nationalism, which is grounded in resistance to immigration in almost all forms.
He acknowledged that the beverage industry is somewhat insular and that he knows most of the leading players from his time at Coke and A-B InBev.
But I'd like to stress we're not so insular as to fail to recognize the potential damage that campaigns like this can do to the Open Championship.
This insular form of music eventually crystallized into a scene called "bedroom pop"—a digitally connected cohort of musicians with its own stars, styles, and dedicated playlists.
If individual privacy is over and the endgame of the Internet-enabled world is, as Zuckerberg claims, "connectivity," why is the Facebook headquarters an insular mini-city?
An operative who worked for one of Trump's opponents said it would not hurt to have "fresh blood" working in an insular world of Republican digital consultants.
The tax treatment of Puerto Rico as a foreign jurisdiction, for instance, is justified under the Supreme Courts insular cases, which classify it as an unincorporated territory.
Like Ibsen's doomed Hedda, Susan was perceived as a figure of fascinating and fatal perversity, a woman of wildly heroic longings amid oppressive and insular small-mindedness.
Yet the Supreme Court has allowed the Insular Cases to stand, even as it has corrected other odious constitutional decisions of the time, such as Plessy v.
With so ancient a history in so insular a nation, it should not be surprising that the imperial family has remained so central to Japan's national identity.
Tznius, or modesty, has taken on a renewed focus in recent years, Hasidic Jews and religious experts say, as the wider world encroaches on their insular community.
The III%ers and similar groups could not have happened without social media, particularly Facebook, which allows them to create a insular community and organize in secret.
Project MAC was also significant in training a generation of technologists who would spread ideas far beyond the insular community of hackers who built the original system.
That Watanabe, an intentional outsider, can pinpoint exactly the axis around which the rest of the insular fashion world is turning gives his collections a prophetic quality.
"It may be that insular religious groups are growing more rapidly than secular communities or that they are increasingly falling victim to vaccine misinformation," the study noted.
That failing, it said, was exacerbated by lax oversight by senior executives and an "insular" corporate culture that discouraged employees from questioning improper but long-established practices.
Educated at Oxford University, Naruhito, along with his wife, Masako, a former diplomat with a degree from Harvard, represents a cosmopolitan outlook in an often insular Japan.
Mayer will probably prevail in this, given that directors are loath to directly attack a sitting CEO, especially in the clubby and insular world of Silicon Valley.
In insular Japan, where foreign leadership of domestic companies is rare, Mr. Ghosn's downfall could be taken as a referendum on the perils of working with outsiders.
The world of virtual, electronic exploration tends to consist of insular, solipsistic encounters that do not equip us to live in a world full of other people.
CARYN GANZ Young Dolph, from Memphis, has been easing his way toward hip-hop ubiquity in recent years as his music has become airier and less insular.
Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
Op-Ed Contributor Institutions plagued by sexual assault scandals tend to look alike: They are usually insular organizations that resist external checks and revolve around authoritative men.
Named chief executive by the Volkswagen supervisory board at a meeting late Thursday, he must now show that he can navigate Volkswagen's notoriously insular, hierarchical company culture.
He was staff counsel to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs from 1975 to 1981 before returning to American Samoa as its deputy attorney general.
It was paranoid and resentful, its harsh textures partly inspired by a range of frustrations with the music industry and with the insular world of high fashion.
Specifically, those areas are known as the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex, the right orbitofrontal and frontopolar cortex, the right superior temporal gyrus and the right insular cortex.
But I'm also trying to figure out, well, ma— are— you know, is— is— is the charge that you're insular correct, and is he a spoiled brat?
Obama picked Clancy despite the recommendation of an independent review panel that the next director be from outside the agency, which it said had become too insular.
The rancor and the polarization of politics in Peru can seem, from this perspective, insular, a neighborhood squabble, even, no matter what the actual stakes might be.
Like some characters from Greenberg's previous works, the members of the wedding party here belong to a privileged, insular world, yet feel adrift amid changing cultural tides.
RA: A lot of the work I've done in the last decade has been focused on making connections outside of what are maybe more insular LGBTQ spheres.
Gaming communities can be insular and cult-like and I'm glad law enforcement is learning to work with women, even if it takes an infuriatingly long time.
Country music is perceived as an insular, predominantly white genre, while Lil Nas X is a black rapper who draws influences from black artists and musical styles.
If there's anywhere the premiere stumbles, it's that it can sometimes feel a bit insular, like the comedians are swapping inside jokes at a private dinner party.
Co-founders James Miille and Alex Mitow say the fair is a reaction to the inflated prices they saw on the high end of the "insular" art market.
The second is the Republican Party, at every juncture, becoming more cruel, insular, anti-intellectual, bigoted, and focused on power at the expense of any other shared value.
Not because it is particularly insular or difficult to find, but because of its character*:* Like the film it adores, the Carol community is open and painfully earnest.
But Mr. Obama has expressed concern about the insular nature of the presidency and from time to time has suggested that he wanted to break out of it.
All images: Alex Cranz/GizmodoThe audiophile community is an insular place where science and hard facts can often take a backseat to PR speak that's treated like religion.
The Hasidim are a relatively small group of Orthodox Jews who live in insular communities, the largest of which is in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where "Menashe" is set.
When you consider the perfectionist culture and insular politics of the sport, it's horrifyingly obvious how a sexual abuse scandal of this scale happened right underneath our noses.
But the app was exceedingly ugly, and fell under criticism for appealing to an elitist urge to abandon the masses of Tinder and migrate to something more insular.
But when Jack begins to fall for a young woman named Allie (The Witch's Anya Taylor-Joy), the family's insular lifestyle is threatened, and the mysterious hauntings return.
Image: NPSAnimals who have become isolated on small islands with limited access to food are subject to an evolutionary process known as insular dwarfism (humans are no exception).
The Final Five's successful defense of the Olympic team title and Simone Biles's four gold medals at Rio opened the insular world of international gymnastics to mainstream America.
Guatemala and Belize have agreed to accept the court's decision on "any and all legal claims of Guatemala against Belize to land and insular territories," a statement said.
Like the presidency, the chief usher's role has evolved, and Harleth's hire suggests that the position, once above the political fray, is becoming more insular and more partisan.
The creditors' response, though, was getting the U.S. House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs to hold a March 22 hearing on the PREPA debt renegotiations.
But the term has its critics on the left, too: Political economist Bill Dunn finds it too insular, rarely adopted by the people it is said to describe.
These debates produced a group of opinions by the Supreme Court between 1901 and 1922 referred to as the Insular Cases, which articulated the doctrine of unincorporated territories.
Absent the benefit of public scrutiny and debate, empowering a fully briefed red team to test contrarian views is a sensible practice for guarding against faulty insular thinking.
If you become insular and if you only hang out with people who fundamentally have the same views, you are not going to grow or get things done.
In other words, contemporary and mass media has long been a tool for people outside the insular art world to take part in curating what's at its core.
Granted, many of the jokes I love to pieces are the kind that someone outside the insular world of the entertainment industry might not get without Google handy.
Esfahani, who was born in Tehran in 1984 and grew up in Rockville, Maryland, happily fills the role, casting himself as a fearless renegade in an insular field.
In his public remarks, Mr. Trump has delivered an insular and self-referential closing message, dwelling on personal frustrations at the expense of any wider appeal to voters.
AA groups can provide the insular resilience members may need when situations arise that could potentially trigger them, so they can continue on the path to sustained sobriety.
And one place where I feel like it's especially tricky is with insular communities, like encrypted and private channels and websites — such as Facebook groups and messaging apps.
The reluctance to offer alternatives -- or provide clarity about possible postponements -- reinforces the secrecy around what is already one of the most insular and mysterious institutions of government.
One part of the table will be occupied by Mr. Kim, a young despot atop an insular and impoverished country whose degree of political stability remains a mystery.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born in 1961 into a secretive, insular, paternalistic Mexico that had been ruled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for more than 30 years.
" He wrote that the company could have sucked up much of the city's talent and "is one of the most insular, secretive and uncharitable companies I've ever encountered.
McNair's death has forced the insular, hypermasculine and scandal-ridden world of college football to reckon with itself once again about whether it is sufficiently protecting its players.
Mr. Macron's political opponents are having a field day with the affair, saying it typifies an opaque, unresponsive and insular presidency populated by a tight band of ultraloyalists.
The report confirmed an earlier preliminary report and indicated that the company was on a more stable footing after its emissions scandal and questions about its insular culture.
Danes aren't unusually careless about animal welfare, but there's a tradition of pragmatism—or, a critic could say, an insular and self-congratulatory moral laxity—about animal death.
In the often-insular French art world, she is known for traveling — especially to Eastern Europe and the Middle East — to find artists to introduce to French audiences.
Bill Woods, an Alabama-born urban planner who inspired insular New Yorkers to finally reclaim their forsaken waterfront, died on May 22 in Kingston, N.Y. He was 78.
Third, the bill was crafted by people who were insular and nearsighted, who could see only a Washington logic and couldn't see any national or real-life logic.
Masuko, several Mitsubishi group executives said, gave Carlos Ghosn his blunt assessment: even after a decade of change, he had failed to penetrate his firm's insular technology arm.
He allowed that the art world can also be an insular one where people are afraid of speaking out for fear of recrimination, or of sullying their reputation.
He explains how distinct dialects can form among people living in insular communities, but then doesn't explore the effect of housing segregation on how this came to be.
The panel Thursday approved Doug Domenech, who led Interior's transition effort for Trump, to be assistant secretary of insular affairs at the department by a 13-8 vote.
Theirs is a classic teen girl friendship dynamic, in which two girls become absorbed in each other to the exclusion of all else, creating their own insular world.
The film's revelations are two-pronged: They uncover much about the Hasidic community, while also more broadly exposing how insular groups keep people in and everyone else out.
This domed insular test bed, calibrated to high levels of calculation and precision, was developed with controls for temperature, airflow, humidity, and direction of light in specific climatic conditions.
As its neighbour to the south retreats into a more insular mindset, less willing to take on responsibilities in the world, Canada continues to push its liberal international agenda.
In less than 24 hours, over 25,000 people had watched it (certified viral in the insular world of urban cycling), and a local Chicago news station covered the story.
D.C. Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote in her opinion that under the Insular cases distinction, birthright citizenship is not a "fundamental" right owed to the "unincorporated" territories.
It has more in common with The Simpsons than Rick and Morty; whereas the latter is still a meme factory, its community is still insular, almost like a fraternity.
That's why 4chan's insular activity always seems to be kicking up a new storm, slowly gathering attention from more and more people until it spills over into the mainstream.
But it's clear that incidents like this, which reveal the often insular Silicon Valley culture that has tasked itself with building world-spanning algorithms, need more than quick fixes.
Scientists have speculated that their miniaturized characteristics were the result of insular dwarfism, which happens to animals that have become isolated on small islands with limited access to food.
One key effect is to create an insular audience where viewers consider themselves to be part of a select community rather than just an audience for a cable channel.
"Great for annoying white leftists, terrible for anyone else," wrote Favereau Fan, echoing a criticism of Sanders supporters from liberals who viewed them as insular and lacking in diversity.
"There are degrees of insularity, and many Orthodox communities, even Haredi ones, offer an environment that many who have fled very insular communities would be comfortable in," Shafran said.
The goal is to create a capital market in Albania, which is still struggling to modernize a quarter of a century after a particularly insular style of communism ended.
The Democrats found that "overly insular" practices at Centcom that deviated from "analytical best practices" led to more optimistic reports on the Iraqi Security Forces's strength relative to ISIS.
As women continue to accelerate their political engagement, share opinions on the issues, and organize for action (all good things!), this activity is generally happening within insular political communities.
Whereas Laura's death once destabilized an insular community, Lynch now shows the effects of her demise rippling through the entire world—even outer space—in an interconnected, hyperglobal age.
These behemoths destroyed the city's fabric, superimposing sprawling expressways, gargantuan civic centers, insular public housing projects, boxy office buildings, and soaring cruciform residential towers upon its once interconnected networks.
Researchers have studied how people's brains respond to sex, and a 2012 study found that there's an overlap between sexual desire and emotional love in the brain's insular cortex.
It has brought with it a reckoning as people have demanded that what were once insular industry events, like fashion weeks, now pose as representation for a global audience.
But because of what critics have described as the Witnesses' unique penchant for burying allegations of sexual misconduct, and their insular culture, many survivors may decline to pursue justice.
There are 28500 cosponsors for the bipartisan Puerto Rico Admission Act of 6900, including the chairmen of the House Natural Resources Committee and its Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee.
Flanked by equally insular communities of Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans, the Coops was a hotbed of leftist activism, where the elders pushed education and argued politics in Yiddish.
A more insular United States would be detrimental to the liberal nature of the world's "rules-based order", the government said in a 115-page foreign policy white paper.
The argument for making monetary policy insular from politics can be traced back to the stagflation years in the 21625s when economists started recognizing the importance of dynamic inconsistency.
When I looked up at Hal standing in the HSAC in the moonlight, I saw that his usual infectious calm had been replaced by something spookier and more insular.
Fashion is definitely an exclusive, insular industry, but no one can doubt that those who participate in it come from all corners of the world and from all experiences.
These insular communities first began cropping up during the Industrial Revolution, as corporations such as Hershey chocolate and Corning glass tried to "woo workers with fancy amenities," Smithsonian reports.
Not only are the references dated, unrevealing and insular, many of them come from a cohort of characters who, based on the novel's timeline, are in their mid-30s.
They said that it was approaching the World Heritage site, called East Rennell, which includes the largest lake in the insular Pacific and many endemic land and marine species.
In some Jewish communities, the gemach — a community-administered, interest-free loan — proliferated beyond its roots in more insular Orthodox communities in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Paranormal communities are very much insular subcultures that function within their own ideological frameworks, and authentic content and text is an important facet of their collective narratives and identities.
Key for Biden is winning Iowa — as he will lose New Hampshire (the highly insular Democratic voters from the Granite State always vote for candidates from neighboring states). Sen.
She had not told her family about him, she explained to the other guests, because in the insular community in New Jersey where she was raised, intermarriage is forbidden.
McNamee's message resonates most with a few relatively insular groups of worried citizens: parents who monitor screen time, socialists who decry West Coast inequality, academics who study algorithmic bias.
It is worth noting how the Court of Appeals avoids any direct mention or reference to the insular cases, burying their bones in case citations, obfuscating the underlying controversy.
The Academy Awards have come in for no shortage of criticism over the last decade that they are too white, too insular and too devoted to milquetoast crowd-pleasers.
The memes in these groups all primarily focus on the insular in-jokes of their respective schools: undesirable dining halls, assumptions about certain majors, favorite professors, and the like.
It is nurtured largely by men on the internet who used to nurse their grievances alone, in disparate, insular communities around the web — men's rights forums, video game blogs.
It's also very much something that American cinema largely couldn't have produced in decades past due to how insular the industry is and unwelcome it's been to unfamiliar stories.
The wave of newcomers has driven up real estate prices and is changing the face of what had long been an insular and almost entirely white blue-collar enclave.
In the days before economic liberalization brought some measure of prosperity to China's big cities, Shanghai was a sleepier, more insular town, where everyone spoke Shanghainese, rather than Mandarin.
By the mid-50s, when a 19903-year-old Johns entered this insular milieu, the Abstract Expressionist artists and their supporters were already taking their artistic superiority for granted.
Mr. Phelps was at the top of Thrasher's masthead for half his life, a position that made him both loved and hated in the small, insular world of skateboarding.
Many of those cases have happened in sections of the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, where there is an insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that resists vaccination on religious grounds.
It's hyper-male and I think it's worth noting too, whether it's beta or alpha, there can be a toxicity that arises from any type of insular culture. Absolutely.
Most of the problems can be attributed to disagreements among key players, but also it was generally too insular to attract much interest outside of the core circle of people.
Pence to address March for Life in person Senior White House advisers have grown more insular -- and more convinced than ever that they're delivering for the Americans who elected Trump.
MIT's analysis — which used the social media company's complete data set — shows that on Twitter, Trump supporters formed a particularly insular group when talking about politics during the general election.
Though he had ventured outside the insular Haredi community where he grew up, the Jerusalem College of Technology still adhered to strict codes of religiosity, which included filtering the internet.
Both survivors agreed that the insular world of USA Gymnastics normalized Nassar's abusive tactics, and made athletes feel like they didn't have a voice or say in what went on.
The ESR drive is a reflection of the culture war inside tech, an insular battle that means little to the candidates who are now reaping a windfall because of it.
Although the original bill was relatively uncontroversial, the September 11th attacks put an end to any immigrant-friendly legislation for many years, as American politics grew more fearful and insular.
The past few years have seen a swell of criticisms of Silicon Valley's insular culture and broken power dynamics, as well as several high-profile disasters, from Theranos to Bodega.
This is an especially significant risk given the many years it can take to acquire the required skills and develop a network within the relatively insular concentration of Silicon Valley.
According to former members, Schacknow arranged marriages between many of his followers, and systematically brainwashed members into believing they had to sever their relationships with those outside the insular group.
Yoga can seem like an insular club, and with so many poses to learn and so many competing styles of practice, it's hard to figure out where to even begin.
He was a ballplayer who was born as Cuban baseball—insular, mysterious, sui generis— reached its summit, and lived as Cuban baseball slowly became something the entire world could behold.
I want to peer into their weird, insular little worlds with their various private codes and memories, kind of like a David Attenborough figure, but for humans who like Drake.
Dany comes in, slaughters hundreds of thousands of people, but does so promising to revolutionize the country, tearing down the insular, corrupt families that have fought war after war forever.
The fact that Hawaii (with Alaska) became a state in 1959, while Puerto Rico continues to this day drifting in the constitutional wasteland of the insular cases, should give pause.
There are a lot of good food shows and movies, but a lot of them follow the same premise: an insular look at the food world's male-dominated top ranks.
He's easily one of the top ten chefs in the world, but perhaps being an insular French Canadian that despises the media has not helped getting him to that level.
His brash, insular, unapologetic and proudly religious brand of politics made him a demagogue in the eyes of many of the state's Democrats, and even of many of its Republicans.
Their mysteries beg the question, what motivated Richard Pousette-Dart to produce works as enigmatic and insular, in terms of imagery, as they are luminescent and forthright in their effects?
Mr. Lewandowski called the White House team too insular, and he said it had done little to tend to fellow Republicans or to conduct outreach with outside groups and supporters.
In Mea Shearim, video from Israel police showed officers showered with cries of "Nazis" and "murderers" as they made their way down the labyrinthine alleys of the insular Jerusalem neighborhood.
For a short hour, Toosi and Shabaka suggested how to inhabit a small, insular part of the world: the hammock of Simpson Park, warm and wet, mapped with seashelled pathways.
As an undergraduate, I began to grow a sense of confidence that helped me move from a fairly insular environment to a bigger stage when I went to graduate school.
On Washington WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill has long been an insular boys' club known for tales of unwanted sexual approaches, wandering hands at crowded receptions and young women cornered in elevators.
The examples above, and many more, quickly created the notion that anyone could use the web to get discovered and break into an industry that might previously have seemed insular.
The residents raced through the layers of images, as if thumbing through a flipbook, calling out the names of the anatomical structures: cerebellum, hippocampus, insular cortex, striatum, corpus callosum, ventricles.
I returned this fall to a very different Alexandria, one as insular as my mother's was open, as full of despair as my mother's was full of hope and anticipation.
But the game never really explores these subjects in much detail, instead focusing almost entirely on its own insular story of ghost-detecting babies and the end of the world.
The report found that easily discoverable English accounts sympathetic to Islamic State was usually under 1,000, and that those users' activity was mostly insular, limited to interacting with each other.
Schrum, like Nisbet, is nostalgic for an era when the university was smaller, more insular and communitarian, and when the humanities had a firmer place at the center of education.
Their departure, earlier reported by The Washington Post, follows complaints from some local women's march leaders that the New York-based group was too insular to lead a national movement.
But she also digs deeper, beyond the old clichés of insular, backward mountain folk, to find a thriving transgender community and an independent, open-minded streak among the county's inhabitants.
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, meanwhile, is striving to slim down operations himself, in an effort to prevent an increasingly insular United States from gutting the organization altogether.
The non-incorporated territory is a doctrine created by the insular cases at the turn of the 20th Century for purposes of not extending full constitutional rights to Puerto Rico.
That's the first section of Trust Exercise, and as compelling as it is — Choi renders the insular world of a theater kid's high school with claustrophobic intensity — it's mostly setup.
But Shiferaw makes that arch, insular language generated from the choir of Abstract Expressionism into a pidgin that also references hip hop, contemporary politics, and the precariousness of black life.
This is an existing trope among conservatives and conservative media: that Europe is pockmarked with Muslim communities that are so insular and hostile that they're "no-go zones" for Europeans.
Whereas Jesus Camp focused on the faithful, though, One of Us takes a different tack in its examination of an insular religious community (and one that's more impenetrable to outsiders).
Sign languages are incredibly expressive and beautiful, but unfortunately remain insular, as the majority of the world's population is neither versed in nor willing to learn its unique means of communication.
"Britain is at its best when it is outward-looking, engaged, welcoming, internationally minded, thinking of itself as having a huge role in the world ... not isolationist and insular," he added.
The revelations in One of Us are two-pronged: They uncover much about the Hasidic community, while also more broadly exposing how insular groups keep people in and everyone else out.
But even the notoriously elitist, insular establishment of book reviewers in New York did not see their novels as completely out of place in a world rapidly being shaped by globalization.
Even though the association proved to be beneficial—a tour with heavyweights of the scene, Blur, would come the next year—the band tried to distance themselves from Britpop's insular nationalism.
Over the last few years, our nation that once welcomed and recruited those who aspired to greater things – to new beginnings - has become insular and more closed off to the world.
Much remains unknown about Mr. Adan, whose family and friends, part of this city's large but insular Somali community, have said little about him and have declined repeated requests for interviews.
Lee Kun-hee, then the company's chair, announced an ambitious plan to remake Samsung's insular and stodgy corporate culture and turn Samsung into a globally known brand like GE or Sony.
The insular nature of Volkswagen's supervisory board, which is dominated by state politicians, labor leaders and representatives of the Porsche family, is often seen as a factor in the emissions crisis.
In a report published this month, Kobe Steel blamed overzealous cost-cutting, lax oversight by executives and an "insular" corporate culture that discouraged employees from questioning improper but long-established practices.
Inside, all of the rooms face a central courtyard, giving it a snug, insular feel, though there are several wall-size windows that swing out like barn doors on summer days.
While Amazon's small stores rely on a complex web of cameras and sensors tracking your purchase habits, Caper's solution is more insular, focusing only on what's happening inside a shopper's cart.
Although America's coastal elites are not an ethnic or religious minority, they are culturally distinct, often sharing similar cosmopolitan values, and they are extremely insular, interacting and intermarrying primarily among themselves.
Anyone familiar with TM101's stark tales, its bars made more substantial with a heavy dusting of explicit yet insular coke references, know where Jeezy's head was at in those days.
There are few things that underscore just how much of an insular world the ready-to-wear cycle is than its clash with the most mesmerizing sporting event of the year.
Professor Winkler has identified a secret parallel universe of civil rights whose beneficiaries are not the "discrete and insular minorities" whose protection were once the focus of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence.
For more of the back story, read the work of Dvora Meyers, a journalist who has shed light on the world-famous Karolyi ranch training center and U.S.A. Gymnastics' insular culture.
Mr. Joyce's affair with his staff member quickly snowballed from a sex scandal to something more significant: A symbol of the insular, booze-fueled and secretive culture of Canberra, Australia's capital.
Bulger and his Winter Hill gang had operated for more than two decades in the insular Irish-dominated South Boston neighborhood, engaging in loan sharking, gambling, extortion, drug dealing and murder.
It also raises questions about how technicians hired to support the computer system of one of the world's largest and most insular corporations were able to gather information from employee emails.
Here are 29 examples that run the gamut: Billboard chart-toppers and anthems from insular microscenes; shiny, opportunistic pop collaborations and mud-soaked obscurities; novelty records and sincere simpatico style unions.
The outbreak has been most intense in New York, particularly in deeply insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn and upstate that have been vulnerable to misinformation and resistant to vaccination.
An ultra-Orthodox Jew from England, Ashley Blaker has built an act about the rituals of an insular, deeply traditional community that treats much of modern culture and society with suspicion.
The retail industry is infamously insular in its hiring practices, and the industry has evolved such that the expertise required by a retailer 10 years ago may no longer be relevant.
The study is limited, of course, because it relies on an insular, self-selected group of respondents to provide information about themselves, a topic on which people can be surprisingly unreliable.
But critics of the way the family has overseen Volkswagen may see the deal as a missed opportunity to bring in new viewpoints and shake up the carmaker's insular company culture.
Broadcast on the state-run network TRT 1, its sentiments are insular and nationalistic, striking a chord in a country feeling bruised and belligerent after the military coup attempt last July.
In high school she was a bright, funny teen navigating the hard-partying private school circuit who went on to her pursuit of an insular career as a West Coast academic.
Secretive and insular, he prefers to operate under the radar, those in his inner circle say, and when pushed into a corner, resorts to jokes and trivia to avoid serious discussion.
In both instances, the rules primarily affected the ultra-religious and insular Orthodox Jewish community; New York City's vaccination rule applies only to zip codes in Williamsburg, an Orthodox Jewish enclave.

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