Such insularity is the breeding ground for a persecution complex.
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You will see a certain insularity in this vast region.
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Australia's history of high immigration is contrasted with Japan's insularity.
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But the bank's insularity proved burdensome in recovering from the scandal.
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Or rather English insularity, for Britain would likely cease to be.
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They and their sybaritic buddies are smug in their social insularity.
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Hatred, fear, insularity and incivility are the Four Horsemen of today.
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This was a welcome change from the Modi government's previous insularity.
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That insularity opens a vulnerability to the persistent efforts of fascist entryists.
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The insularity of conservative thoughts blinds many Republicans to this logical certainty.
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Now, however, it has succeeded in making such insularity a "lesson" learned.
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Complaints about Silicon Valley insularity are as old as the Valley itself.
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During the '60s, the left's cultural insularity was reinforced by its geography.
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But it's Canada's best chance to penetrate the insularity of the new USA.
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Rhodes, who feels a "mind meld" with Obama, seems to epitomize that insularity.
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The migrant crisis and Brexit contribute to a bleak vision of paranoid insularity.
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Much has been written about the insularity of white America, particularly since then.
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But not as hard as getting the profession to eschew its natural insularity.
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It is a function of two key factors: insularity and lack of education.
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In Canberra, Ms. Jones is still dealing with the consequences of that insularity.
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Brexit carried the day by appealing to British insularity and hostility to outsiders.
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Insularity remains, Causing new corporate stains, As the board waits for fresh Trian welts.
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Insularity being the whole point, the "international" part was dropped not long after this.
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Social networks and content farms are both trying to create more insularity in 2016.
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Even as Vine retained its insularity, it constantly influenced the wider sphere of pop culture.
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And a turn to insularity in many rich countries means foreign aid is increasingly criticised.
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Atlanta strives to reflect its city's humanity beyond the projection of the show creator's insularity.
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I understand the need to insulate oneself from upsetting topics, but insulation necessarily breeds insularity.
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No, my (wholly unoriginal) quarrel with Washington concerns the preening insularity of its political class.
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In its insularity, and its strangeness, and its fledgling-ness, there's a very appealing purity.
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Jeremy Gold, another of the authors, says the affair illustrates the insularity of the actuarial profession.
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With the help of Morning Consult, a research technology company, we sought to measure such insularity.
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San Francisco is not alone in trying to crack the insularity of fast-growing tech employers.
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The choice facing Ms. Osaka comes as Japan is under pressure to loosen its entrenched insularity.
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It's, well, very English, depicting and critiquing midcentury Britain's haughty propriety, deep homophobia and posh insularity.
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Alice, Milo and Keith have known one another since childhood, and retain a prep-school insularity.
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His grandiosity, insularity and scamming have persuaded Trump to believe he can mold his own world.
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But he always maintained a healthy skepticism of institutions that thrived on the insularity that Greenblatt describes.
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The issue isn't just their state of vigor but whether they operate with more insularity than transparency.
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Even Skrillex, stalwart party-starter, dug further into the insularity that some of his recent production work.
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There are few things as constant as the arrogance and insularity of a bureaucrat with a little power.
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There are those telling the President to move on from the insularity of his original cast of characters.
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That insularity made the number of people who could give you insight (ahem) into Trump very, very limited.
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I lamented, with other field division agents, about the insularity and groupthink that often resulted from tenure there.
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"The board's chumminess and insularity were impediments to making those difficult, but necessary, decisions," Ms. McKeever said recently.
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And we need to focus on the future – hyper partisanship and insularity clearly aren't going to help us.
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It's the 947th consecutive sign that we in the coastal chattering classes have not cured our insularity problem.
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To be an island is to be other—at once prone to insularity and to seeing horizons more clearly.
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We can grow too cozy in insularity, and can become blind to people around us who are in need.
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Mr. Walker said there is still the persistent problem of insularity; boards are clubs that tend to be homogeneous.
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Our insularity and the ubiquity of the trivial within our society tend to breed apathy for far-away tragedy.
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They have become the leaders of a post-internationalist Britain, a new insularity that Churchill would have found unfathomable.
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So, following a session at the Hard Times gym, have we been nudged from our self-regarding insularity and inaction?
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Gerson attributes evangelicals' failures on race matters today to their "relative ethnic and racial insularity" — as if that is accidental.
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But while the traditional insularity of Alghero has helped to preserve Catalan, the language is struggling to survive even here.
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Yet the intimacy, privacy and even the occasional insularity of these essays are precisely what grant them their curious power.
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As we look around the halls of Capitol Hill, there are places where our culture trends toward insularity over transparency.
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DuBois is overwhelmed by the lack of opportunities, the consumer culture, and the general insularity he finds in the Pennsylvania town.
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Along with its fertile soil, Shakespeare's garden of England was defined by its Edenic insularity, and by its impenetrability to intruders.
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But when Mr Trump takes these positions to their logical conclusion, she accuses him of insularity, and of lacking competitive spirit.
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I've often denounced conservative fearmongering about Muslims and refugees, and the liberal hostility toward evangelicals seems rooted in a similar insularity.
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The right pushed to an extreme of white nationalist insularity fed by a consuming fear of white displacement and religious diminution.
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The resulting insularity is exacerbated by the fact only an estimated 10 percent of vocational and technical college students are female.
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It is a symptom of the insularity of Japanese companies, which has been a serious impediment to making strategic and financial improvements.
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" Another neighbor, Joshua Sanchez, 24, was also struck by the familial insularity inside the chicken restaurant he referred to as "the shack.
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That can be a potent engine for social and economic progress; it can also be an excuse for insularity and political grandstanding.
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The town is known for its insularity and lack of gossip, which allows for well-known residents to fly under the radar.
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At the heart of the film's failure is that it never finds novel or compelling ways to depict the insularity of mental illness.
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There is real value in retail politics, a premium in New Hampshire and Iowa, in running for an office where insularity is endemic.
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It touches on small-town insularity, guilt, the supernatural, and family, but again, Hull is completely present—car crashes have always consumed him.
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These are fundamentally different flaws, one being clearly about a pattern of assault and the other about a pattern of ill-fated insularity.
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Shall we embrace hatred, fear, insularity and incivility, or shall we embrace the challenge of attempting to make our society and ourselves better?
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Wherever "Let 'im Move You" goes, it brings this free outdoor component, a kind of roving rejoinder to the insularity of the theater.
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While this insularity allowed the measles to spread, it has also had a protective effect on wider public health, at least so far.
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Ms. Daniels also saw a problem with how long some members have been serving on the board because it could lead to insularity.
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The site's web platform didn't even launch until 2014, and by then Vine had established, through its technological insularity, a unique and iconoclastic culture.
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This highlights the intensely introspective world of Samuele and other Lampedusa residents, and emphasizes how deep and impenetrable that state of insularity has become.
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Mr. Abe is strongly supported by the far right wing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which hews to tradition and tends toward insularity.
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His deliberately multiracial, mixed-gender bands recalled Sly & the Family Stone and the collectivism of the '60s, while his studio methods recalled '70s insularity.
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Most of them felt a "sense of temporal insularity," where only the present was real and the past and future were far, far away.
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Unshackled from the confines of the Beltway, our work force would no longer be captive to the insularity of the elites traveling the eastern Acela corridor.
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In another sign of his insularity, the President -- even when he leaves the White House -- rarely spends time outside his comfort zone in Trump-branded properties.
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The Brexit campaign is driven mainly by sentiments of English nationalism and insularity, chiefly among older and blue-collar voters concentrated in England's Midlands and north.
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In some cases, that sense may be based on overconfidence and insularity—a presumption that the other party's outrages will automatically disqualify it in voters' eyes.
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Nobody even accepted it as an idea that he could possibly win, and a lot of that had to do with the insularity of the media.
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Today, the insularity of the left is magnified by the Internet, which tends to draw us toward people who think alike while screening out unfriendly opinions.
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Its dark and muscular wood and leather interior recalls an era of masculine insularity, though these days at least as many of its patrons are female.
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Ms. Barr's fame and affluent insularity — she largely appears in her waterside home in Waimea, Hawaii, with her laid-back boyfriend, Johnny Argent — hobbles her voter contact.
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The Capital Beltway that encircles Washington and its near suburbs is more than just a metaphor for the alleged insularity of the people who live within it.
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" The prosecutor goes on ... "Her efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity.
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For Mr. Bertolucci the growing insularity of his work was less a result of a narrowing worldview than a reflection of the world he saw around him.
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In the case of the intelligence world, where a high degree of insularity is essential, the cloak of language renders spooks and their civilian critics mutually alien.
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By emphasizing Silk Road history, officials are highlighting eras in Chinese history when the Great Wall represented openness to the outside world rather than insularity and xenophobia.
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But this resourceful artist is in a zone of her own, tapping into the jangly hedonism of fashion without a whiff of its self-importance and insularity.
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University of Denver law professor Nancy Leong, who teaches constitutional law and has focused on how sex discrimination claims are handled, also cites the insularity as a problem.
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Instead, they arise from a belief that this move will rob the policy-making process of a particular kind of expertise and, worse, contribute to insularity and bias.
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So the aliens are just another cult group, something closer to the Rajneeshees or Scientologists than the punks, in that they're more controlled, and there's a sense of insularity.
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"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.
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This insularity gives "The Water Cure" the cloistered, ahistorical atmosphere of a fairy tale, where elemental dramas play out much as they have since humanity first began telling stories.
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Since its inception—as simply the Booker Prize, in 1969—it has been criticized for its imperialist overtones, its unwillingness to take risks, and, above all, its corrupt insularity.
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They added that Huffman's "efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity," they said.
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That's still nowhere near Facebook, which earned $10 billion in revenue last quarter alone, but it's a meaningful number, and it shows that insularity isn't always a bad thing.
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KASHIWA, Japan — Vexed by labor shortages in their rapidly aging country, lawmakers relaxed Japan's longstanding insularity early Saturday by authorizing a sharp increase in the number of foreign workers.
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Yet the sport also reflects a pivotal moment for Japanese society as it inches away from a deep-rooted insularity and opens to an increasing number of foreign workers.
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It's certainly true that many religious communities' insularity, combined with their frequent focus on women's sexual purity, renders these spaces as particularly fertile ground for sexual harassment or abuse.
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The close-knit neighborhood -- where residents explain the insularity as a way of preserving the community's identity -- has seen heightened tension in some families, especially as Passover preparations got underway.
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One reason for the "Eastern District Effect," as Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia, called it, could also have something to do with the insularity of judicial life.
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Another theory has to do with insularity: The elites spend so much time within the Acela corridor that they don't have a clue about what is going on beyond it.
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Brazil's relative insularity to global trade partially shields it in times of slowing global growth, but also limits the positive impact on exports and growth from a weak exchange rate.
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The insularity, disconnection from field operations, and prevalent groupthink that began to manifest itself in what some agents angrily refer to as the "HQ cabal" are now on full display.
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These women said Mr. Epstein took advantage of the insularity of the dance world, where dancers rely on one another for job opportunities and trust that those tips are legitimate.
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And if Harvey's album suggests the insularity and self-deception that was shaken by the horrors and scope of the First World War, is she entirely in on the joke?
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Despite the culture's insularity and remoteness from us, the Japanese often dress and style themselves in a way that clearly states their social membership in categories of rocker, matron, intellectual, etc.
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This isn't the expected culture of covert insularity in which Apple waits for the complaints to hit critical mass or someone to take it up as a cause before it's addressed.
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An insularity that stems from disconnection from the wider world and a focus on fashion creates a frustrating amalgam of ham-handedness and ignorance that makes missteps look even more ridiculous.
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The insularity of Saudi Arabia's sprawling and phenomenally wealthy royal family is well known, often leaving diplomats, intelligence agents and members of the family itself struggling to decipher its inner workings.
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CALGARY, Alberta — There is a particularly quaint element to Canada — our smallness, our politeness, our insularity — that makes many people, including many Canadians, assume the best about our country and ourselves.
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OUR TWO PRONGS ONE, THE COMPANY HAS BECOME BUREAUCRATIC AND INEFFICIENT, AND, TWO, THEY'VE MISSED THE BOAT ON TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BIG PART OF THAT IS THE INSULARITY OF THE SENIOR TEAM.
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The new book may settle the question of where the Turks came from, but it comes at a time when their insularity and distinctiveness has been melting away through intermarriage and migration.
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INSULAR BRAZIL Brazil's relative insularity to global trade partially shields it in times of slowing global growth, but also limits the positive impact on exports and growth from a weak exchange rate.
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Now some of Mr. Moore's supporters are wondering, and hoping, that the fusillade of criticism from beyond Alabama will strengthen his case before voters here who often declare their independence and insularity.
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Now bosses think they have entered a nirvana, when the reality is that the country's system of commerce is lurching away from rules, openness and multilateral treaties towards arbitrariness, insularity and transient deals.
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It's telling that the one African American who challenges Dave's worldview is given very little airtime in God's Not Dead, because it encapsulates the insularity that keeps the white evangelical persecution complex humming.
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The Man Booker Prize's history is defined as much by its many controversies—over its imperialist history, its insularity (which leads to perennial allegations of corruption), and its general conservatism—than anything else.
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That was an act of colossal bad judgment that showed, among other things, an insularity and inattention to public opinion by Blair that is shocking for a politician of his stature and experience.
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The insularity of elites has been noted frequently in this election season as an explanation for the failure of political operatives, journalists and scholars to recognize the political ascendance of Donald J. Trump.
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One difficulty, perhaps, is that the qualifying credentials to work at a museum create a kind of insularity and art-world myopia, disconnected with the attention span and interests of the average American.
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"The Young Pope" echoes a larger phenomenon, of which our election was just one part: the movement toward retreat and insularity in the West, an attitude that Pius sees as a holy mandate.
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A sherpa and a shepherd from the Pyrenees will both describe a deep spiritual connection to the land and similar personality traits: insularity, self-reliance, a gift for improvisation, a suspicion of outsiders.
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Its insularity, secrecy, its bedrock libertarianism and algorithmic notions about progress, land use and corporate independence have never easily meshed with the slow, open-society, regulatory-heavy, greater-good mission that defines city living.
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H: That's a very big part of the immigrant experience, that sort of insularity that comes from having a community and then being more alone, or having to form a different kind of community.
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Indeed, it's tempting to speculate that the administration's problems so far, including its clumsy rollout of a travel ban that was mostly blocked by the courts, stem in part from its homogeneity and insularity.
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But the Israelites were able to hold on to their traditions and beliefs, sometimes through insularity (the Hebrew Bible is full of passages condemning people who worshipped other cultures' gods) but sometimes through compromise.
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Britain, on the other hand, has signaled not merely its own insularity, but with it our own future decline, reflected in the falling value of sterling -- and now in the falling interest in our politics.
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" Mr. Ackman responded: "The fact that the board believes that the company's largest owner with an 8.3 percent stake does not deserve even one board seat speaks to their insularity and lack of shareholder perspective.
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No man is an island, and Ocean's stubborn insularity makes him vulnerable in a time of marquee match-ups like Khaled's pairing of Jay Z and Future or the rumored forthcoming Drake and Kanye joint mixtape.
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Brutalism expressed something about the insularity of the literary world that was bang on the mark and, most importantly, the writers involved were good enough that they have become part of the reshaping of that landscape.
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And as Irin Carmon points out over at Jezebel, the film's central struggle deals with Baby's realization of her community's self-imposed insularity, which makes her romance with dance lord Johnny (Patrick Swayze) unthinkable and unsustainable.
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She expresses frustration that people persist in seeing the Midwest as a place of "fixity instead of flux, insularity instead of interdependence" and cautions against choosing the "pabulum of nostalgia" over the reality of global interconnectedness.
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If American conservative evangelicals hope to avoid retreat to another period of insularity and irrelevance, they must face the possibility that Trump's evangelical loyalists aren't just turning a blind eye to his racial and gender politics.
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Lending support to someone who's having a bad day is always a good thing to do, but this gets at the curious mix of insularity and the Great Man Theory that could be called the Patriots Way.
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At times, as with the topical references to refugees (a few of whom are seen huddled in detention), these glimpses of the larger, agonizing world are clearly meant to say something about the characters and their insularity.
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These shires will be free of birth control pills, and transgender people, and presumably Aaliyah; the hobbits will speak Latin and revere liturgy and their insularity will protect them from everything and everyone that could corrupt them.
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But the show also stresses that the insularity of these parents, who are generally white and privileged, can bring harm to others in the community who have fewer socioeconomic resources to help them resist a viral outbreak.
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"We suffer from double insularity," a wiry, chain-smoking poet named Tony Ramírez said excitedly, when I met him at one of the few restaurants, El Galeón (which, as its name suggests, was shaped like a galleon).
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In the 1920s, Soutine's art had come to symbolize the difficult, pathetic, poverty-stricken, culturally backward, or "primitive" shtetl origins, and the possibility that Western art and culture offered a way to transcend the insularity of the shtetl.
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It can seem at times as if a community has migrated to Belgium with its customs, loyalties and language intact, putting a premium on family ties and fostering an insularity that made finding Mr. Abdeslam that much harder.
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The answer is that such exclusive and clubbish nomination practices ensure that the Court will suffer a peculiar kind of intellectual insularity, reflecting the deep biases built into Ivy League legal education and the narrowness of the justices' experiences.
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The way we are thinking of the strike now is as a hub to move the protest outwards, away from the art institution into a greater collective engagement, with the potential to bridge the insularity of the art institution.
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"Long ago, the A.B.A. should have stopped protecting marginal law schools, but it's a victim of its own insularity," said Steven J. Harper, an adjunct law professor at Northwestern University's law school and a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
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Despite all of this, which would figure to turn off the people in a region known, perhaps unfairly, for its insularity and, perhaps fairly, for its hatred of pretension, Brady is now the most favorite son of New England.
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They're all very similar patterns, arrogance breaks in, insularity comes in, at the beginning tolerance and open-mindedness create it, like you said, the industrial revolution, we talked about that book, and then another set of things comes in.
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Coverage of the infamous 1991 Crown Heights riots serves as a good example of the usual narratives that still manifest in the media about the community, while stories of those who've left give more insight into the intensity of its insularity.
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But by not including more commercial works, or books by smaller presses—neither of which are regularly reviewed by the kinds of outlets being aggregated here—Book Marks is a reflection of literary publishing's insularity, and it suffers for it.
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IF A satirist were to create a parody of an international conference, amping up the insularity and tedious intricacies for comic effect, he might come up with something rather like the meeting that will take place this week in Marrakech.
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Taken in isolation, these incidents can seem the lamentable fruit of modernity's least appetising traits: mollycoddling parenting, a sub-Freudian narcissism, a hypochondriacal sense of entitlement and a social-media ecosystem that reinforces insularity and cultivates an expectation of instant response.
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The restaurant could do a decent tourist trade nonetheless—on our visit, there's a huge gang of weekend bikers gassing up at the Shell station across the street—but the restaurant's insularity is further illustrated by its hours of business.
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And we've learned how a rather small cabal of FBI headquarters inhabitants had major influence over two consequential investigations -- the Clinton case and the Trump-Russia investigation -- and we have speculated that insularity and groupthink and yes, political biases may have infected them.
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A yellowed and drooping mask of Hermes, part of the separate six-box "Explanation," could serve as an indictment of the insularity of white art history, and an intricately bumpy cantaloupe as a way of isolating a beautiful texture from distracting color.
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Bound up in the fate of the city were even larger questions: Would America be able to manage the transition from the individualism and insularity that defined its 19th-century frontiers to the creative collaboration and competition of its fast-growing urban centers?
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Even though he insists he is not carelessly violent like Tom or Daisy, the young understand that Nick is as much a product of his social class as Tom, that its backwardness and insularity mark him as much as they do Tom and Daisy.
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Stanfield also grants his characters an interiority that feels novel, a quiet insularity rarely afforded black men both in drama and in life, whose survival more often depends on public engagement, the requirement that they explain their reason for being, and do so enthusiastically.
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Scaling back the number of immigrants we let into the country may bring us into line with the United States and Britain, but the politics of insularity sends a dangerous message of disengagement to our neighbors, as they begin to rewrite the rules for the international order.
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Although several hundred officers turned up, the march highlighted the insularity of the tech industry; because Google's security officers can't be on campus more than two hours after their shift ends, they had to stage their protest in a nearby park, not quite within view of the campus.
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Somehow the commentators and politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen had assumed that for all the isle's insularity, for all the familiar euroskepticism and grousing about immigrants, when the time came Britons would revert to form and remain in their proper place in the front ranks of the Western world.
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Murray's reasoning was extensive, looking into the effect Race and the lessons he offered had on things like tactics, coaching and cultural insularity, but he might have added another: The most damaging impact Race had on successive generations of fans and players was the narrative arc of his adventures.
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On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
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What if the belief systems used to justify anti-immigrant policies and to justify race prejudice, for that matter — hostility to outsiders, insularity, high sensitivity to external threat — are as deeply ingrained in the American body politic as belief systems sympathetic to immigration and to racial equality — openness, receptivity to new experiences, trust?
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But The Favourite is really about the idea that an absolute leader, or the illusion of one, is its own mass delusion — a portrait of insularity in which someone's morning mood might determine the direction of a country that should count itself lucky to be a few centuries away from the advent of cable news.
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Perhaps Hardyment's decision to focus almost exclusively on Britain — Nathaniel Hawthorne's gabled mansion and the modest cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe gave to Uncle Tom join the forlornly extravagant edifice in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as the only contributions from abroad — is meant to highlight a fearful island's crawl toward ever greater insularity.
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Last year's ceremony appeared to signal a shift in the thinking of TV Academy voters, and an attempt to course-correct on the Emmys' longstanding insularity: all three lead actor awards went to men of color, while a solid chunk of the other major writing and directing awards went to a relatively diverse pool of winners.
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But I believe there is a lot wrong with our insularity, our inability (if not unwillingness) to cross a divide, while, and this is where this gets really ironic, a lot of the work in our books might even be made about the very people who will just shake their heads since they can't understand them.
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In her op-ed for the New York Times, Beaty explores two more angles crucial to understanding the tolerance of sexual abuse in evangelical communities: insularity — the idea that a community must protect its own — and a cheapened, shallow ideology of "forgiveness" (something I also wrote about earlier this week in the aftermath of the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting).
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From his dismissal of "shithole countries" to his attempts to institute a "Muslim travel ban," from his incendiary rhetoric about Mexican immigrants being rapists and criminals, to his latest attempts to prevent the Honduran migrants to seeking asylum, Trump's approach to borders has been one of nativism and insularity by protecting (his idea of white) America at the expense of everyone else.
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" What Didion does capture, powerfully, in this book is the insularity of many places in the South, and, by implication, how insular the elites (like herself) are in places like California and New York and Washington — a thought she would develop further in her essays in The New York Review of Books (collected in the 2001 volume "Political Fictions") and in "Fixed Ideas.
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It's the 947th case in which we see that every second you spend on Twitter detracts from your knowledge of American politics, and that the only cure to this insularity disease is constant travel and interviewing, close attention to state and local data and raw abject humility about the fact that the attitudes and academic degrees that you think make you clever are actually the attitudes and academic degrees that separate you from the real texture of American life.
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Or to be less judgmental, let's say that there's been a strange cycle at work, where Republican incompetence helps liberalism consolidate its hold on highly educated America … but that consolidation, in turn, breeds liberal insularity and overconfidence (in big data and election science, in demographic inevitability, in the wisdom of declaring certain policy debates closed) and helps Republican support persist as a kind of protest vote, an attempt to limit liberalism's hegemony by keeping legislative power in the other party's hands.
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I am a European patriot because I have lived in Germany and seen how the idea of Europe provided salvation to postwar Germans; because I have lived in Italy and seen how the European Union anchored the country in the West when the communist temptation was strong; because I have lived in Belgium and seen what painstaking steps NATO and the European Union took to forge a Europe that is whole and free; because I have lived in France and seen how Europe gave the French a new avenue for expressing their universal message of human dignity; because I have lived in Britain and seen how Europe broadened the post-imperial British psyche and, more recently, to what impasse little-England insularity leads; because I have lived in the Balkans and chronicled a European war that took 100,000 lives; because "plain-routine, rut-living Bertie Cohen of Johannesburg," as he put it, came to Europe to save the continent along with the young Americans whose graves I have gazed at in Normandy.
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