insular 的 2 个定义
- narrow-minded or illiberal; provincial: insular attitudes toward foreigners.
- standing alone; detached; isolated: an insular building.
- of or relating to an island or islands: a nation's insular possessions.
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- an inhabitant of an island; islander.
insular 近义词
narrow-minded
更多insular例句
- Even if the judiciary’s leaders say they can police themselves, Minor said in the brief, the insular culture of the judiciary prohibits that.
- Stories set in the Ivory Tower are often understood to be insular and low-stakes, with little to offer anyone who doesn’t possess a postgraduate degree.
- They were a closed insular class but they were nonetheless connected to the world around them.
- Yet the insular worlds of think-tanks and academia have the potential to be echo chambers, as does the human rights community that includes HRW.
- The insular industry has a long way to go toward spreading the wealth, from expanding POC presence in product development and cultivation to expanding education around how to acquire medical cannabis licenses.
- The Pritzker transforms architects from being merely good practitioners in a fairly insular field into global celebrities.
- But the sad reality is that the comics industry is too insular to foster any kind of radical change.
- All this observation and self-observation possibly says something very depressing about how insular and self-obsessing we are.
- Doing so, he highlighted the degree to which creationism is a decidedly incurious, insular worldview.
- The Executive is elected in broad national elections in which discrete and insular minorities carry less weight.
- From this point of view, the superiority of the continental over the insular colonies was not to be doubted.
- Horses and dresses are found in the insular forms, but, so far, I have not found a single instance of the tournament.
- The true causes of the depression were not within the control of the Insular Government or of any ruling factor.
- Of the taxes accruing to the Insular Treasury under the above law, 10 per cent.
- The insular failing is elsewhere frequently displayed by the poet in the trying light cast from a misanthrope genius.