insularity

Example Sentences

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He has little patience for the art world’s insularity, especially conceptual provocations that only make sense to those with an aesthetic theory decoder ring.

From New York Times

The American literary world has tried to bolt for freedom from this era — from its thin veneer of diversity, from its self-dealing insularity, from the selective way it fetishized rule-breaking.

From Washington Post

And yet I can’t be the only bystander to Marvel’s reign over pop culture made cranky by its burgeoning insularity.

From Washington Post

Schlieker explained that the White Cliffs of Dover, which appear in several works in the exhibition, stand for Britain’s “insularity” and “isolation.”

From New York Times

Lilly Freer has grown up with this whiteness and what she and others see as widespread intolerance fed by insularity.

From Los Angeles Times