"Swimming" released last month, was his wooziest and most insular to date.
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Even the most insular king would occasionally visit the far parts of his realm.
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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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The contemporary art world is one of the most insular and self-satisfied subcultures in history, a milieu we think of as unplagued by anything so banal as paperwork or bodily functions.
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It is, as challengers from the right—Gun Owners of America, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, the National Association for Gun Rights—have asserted, one of the largest, most insular, status quo-embracing groups in Washington.
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It would also send a timely message to the world: that even in the most insular and protectionist of environments, we can advance international cooperation and prove that globalization can still work for those who have been left behind.
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That will continue as no news outlet is going to pass up the chance to get such an interview, and even the most insular administration will want to get its message out in that kind of a setting from time to time.
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They're the culmination of a half-decade that Beyoncé has spent refining her skills as both a visual stylist and a storyteller, and it's her interest in narrative heft that led her to fill Lemonade with the slightest and most insular music she's ever recorded.
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They are also the military's most insular warriors — with the possible exception of Navy SEALs — whose tight bond, or ''esprit de corps,'' grows out of the codes, traditions and reverence for suffering that Marines believe set them apart from civilians and all other military branches.
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As can be the case with some of the most insular "detective" work of this kind, ultimately the blog offers no real explanation as to what any of it means, leaving you none the wiser unless you're incredibly well-versed in both birth charts and numerology.
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The revelations cast another shadow over a group that has long cultivated relationships with New York's law enforcement and elected leaders — and that has secured government funding for vehicles, phones and other equipment integral to its brand of security for some of the city's most insular populations.
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It is a triumphal narrative of how determination, charm, readiness and linguistic fluency allowed the author to penetrate one of the world's most insular societies, beginning as an enthusiast for the country's avant-garde culture and ultimately becoming part of that culture, performing as the Midnight Cowboy with Kara Juro's Situation Theater (Jokyo Gekijo).
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Not only were the fortunes of working- or lower-middle-class people in Britain beginning to dwindle compared with those of the rich, who were steadily getting richer, but it gradually became clear even to the most insular Britons that they were doing much worse than the Germans, the Scandinavians and the Dutch, worse even than the French, Britain's oldest rivals.
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Old Irish has VSO word order shared by most Insular Celtic languages. Other orders are possible, especially under Bergin's Law. Verbs are all fully conjugated and have most forms typical of Indo-European languages. Personal pronouns, when used as direct objects, are prefixed to the verb with which they are associated (after other prefixes, and therefore are often referred to as infixes).
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The table below also contains the paramount native Welsh rulers in the Norman and Plantagenet periods – by this time only Wales (or parts thereof) remained under Brittonic rule in Britain and the term "Britons" (Brythoniaid, Brutaniaid) was used in Britain to mean the Welsh people (Cymry in modern Welsh). This, and the diminishing power of the Welsh rulers relative to the Kings of England, is reflected in the gradual evolution of the titles by which these rulers were known from "King of the Britons" in the 11th century to "Prince of Wales" in the 13th. Although the majority of the rulers listed below had their power base in Gwynedd in North Wales, most insular Brittonic areas from the 7th century on are to be found in the list below, from Dumnonia in the West Country, to Strathclyde in southwest Scotland.
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Art historians usually group insular art as part of the Migration Period art movement as well as Early Medieval Western art, and it is the combination of these two traditions that gives the style its special character.Honour & Fleming, 244–247; Pächt, 65–66; Walies & Zoll, 27–30 Most Insular art originates from the Irish monastic movement of Celtic Christianity, or metalwork for the secular elite, and the period begins around 600 with the combining of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon styles. One major distinctive feature is interlace decoration, in particular the interlace decoration as found at Sutton Hoo, in East Anglia. This is now applied to decorating new types of objects mostly copied from the Mediterranean world, above all the codex or book.No manuscripts are commonly dated before 600, but some jewellery, mostly Irish, is dated to the 6th century.
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