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1. Nor did he find himself especially taken with their very insular overtones
2. Perhaps the world had stagnated in the way they’d suggested, it’s populace too concerned with insular matters, and all the while a simmering discontent of those less fortunate
3. And The Occidental Herald writes, "Since the Copts spent their entire lives resisting secular reason-based progress and State-led centralised planning—designed to make the people's lives safer, fairer, and happier—then the Copts have no one to blame for their misfortune but themselves and their insular irrational thinking
4. This allowed the insular attitude of non-interference displayed by your gods before today
5. The Apostle Islands, east of Bayfield, hosted lighthouses on Raspberry and Devil’s Islands, and at other insular and peninsular locations (Nute, pp
6. "Canadians generally consider themselves to be quite insular -- protected from the world," Mainwaring had once told Travis in the early days of the CSIS: "Many Canadians claim their country has no secrets worth stealing
7. This necessity for caution would be less dire in an insular society
8. insular lives toward an expanded definition of what it means to be
9. That was how the once insular Brahmanism had given way to the open-end Hinduism with an expanded mass base to maintain its identity and protect its interests
10. with designed consciousness and encoded predilections to integrate with and satisfy your needs, wants, or desires become possible? How will it effect love and its interpretations and practices, when others have also become accustomed to having an amenable, compliant and personally designed self-fulfilling relationship with a robotic lover, father, mother, sister, any other? When one has the means to create the other in our image of desired perfection, how much care for the masses of imperfect others – humans without means to create a perfect and insular utopia – will one desire, need, fear, protect themselves from?
11. The Gypsies had their own language and enjoyed a wandering, insular culture
12. Linda knew from experience that the Cretans were an insular and prejudiced lot, and Roger and Marc were finished here
13. This form of insular awareness created fear
14. Humans live in a state of constant, insular, inner fear
15. Human beings are animals born from Nature and we should live in Nature and not try to insulate ourselves by insane insular bubbles which do not work
16. humans have managed to wall themselves off from much of the Natural World and from each other as much as possible, with the development of cities… by erecting insular cubicles called buildings and rooms
17. You could characterize the human need for distraction as a fly buzzing around the reflective emptiness of an insulated, insular human awareness
18. They thought they could just make their handy profits and stay as insular Korean families who do not give a shit about anyone else in their community
19. The first cities were created as walled, insular cocoons-cells of safety and privacy
20. The first insular killer who did not feel anything for those it killed
21. ‘The church became insular, protective, and suspicious
22. But it was too late now, I knew, and there was only my dead, insular, overly optimistic, non-college-preparing, occasionally-child-abandoning, pot-smoking, wooden-spoon-wielding, feel-free-to-call-me-by-my-name mom to blame
23. Since the days when, as a schoolboy, I used to bicycle round the neighbouring parishes, rubbing brasses and photographing fonts, I had nursed a love of architecture, but, though in opinion I had made that easy leap, characteristic of my generation, from the puritanism of Ruskin to the puritanism of Roger Fry, my sentiments at heart were insular and medieval
24. rat: distribution of neurons projecting to the insular cortex and amygdaloid complex
25. and insular cortex), and basal regions (striatum)
26. For some reason, though, Afghanistan could never just retreat into its primitive, insular culture
27. But it by no means follows that, because in an island nearly all the species of one class are peculiar, those of another class, or of another section of the same class, are peculiar; and this difference seems to depend partly on the species which are not modified having immigrated in a body, so that their mutual relations have not been much disturbed; and partly on the frequent arrival of unmodified immigrants from the mother-country, with which the insular forms have intercrossed
28. But a hooked seed might be carried to an island by other means; and the plant then becoming modified would form an endemic species, still retaining its hooks, which would form a useless appendage, like the shrivelled wings under the soldered wing-covers of many insular beetles
29. Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable
30. I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard
31. Her insular situation renders it necessary for her protection, and she keeps it up for the purposes of war and dominion
32. Memorable alterations have been made, during the aforesaid period, in the insular tariff—I mean of the British dominions
