Word: insular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cambridge dons and students protested Maudling's decision, while the Times of London, in a throwback to its earlier reputation as "The Thunderer" declared, "It is a shabby and unworthy decision, timorous, insular and morally wrong." Dutschke, who suffered an epileptic seizure apparently as a result of the excitement, last week appealed the decision. If opinion continues to run in his favor, the Tories may well back down rather than risk offending the British concept of fair play...
...distorts some of the facts of contemporary Greece to suit its own purposes, it succeeds in conveying much of the stifling atmosphere of that country today. The insular patriotism, simple-mindedness and dictatorial methods of the colonels are devastatingly captured, if in caricature. Their bumptious puritanism is neatly depicted in the film's opening sequence in which the military brass are assembled for indoctrination. A rightist general compares the disease afflicting the grapes of Greece with the sickness assaulting the body politic: party factionalism, overfree speech, alien ideas. The military, he announces, must serve as the antibodies to repel...
WHEN THE JUNK artists come out from under the table, traditionally insular critics are pressed into finding a new vocabulary. You would not discuss Mickey Spillane and Ernest Hemingway with the same terms. Hence the meta-language of criticism has to be stretched beyond the usual valuations and interpretations in order to examine the structure of the creator's perceived world. The perceived world of a Spillane or a Russ Meyer becomes as important a tool for understanding our melieu as the far more complex world of Hemingway...
...continental U.S. Made several years ago as a companion piece to I Am Curious (Yellow), Blue already looks outdated. Now that almost every film-from Hollywood as well as Europe-contains generous quotas of epidermis in action, Blue's primary attraction is hardly unique. Furthermore, endless interviews about insular Swedish political matters give the film the air of a kind of raunchy master's thesis. The sex scenes, when they do occur, are even more blah and passionless than Yellow's. If the end result of Yellow was soporific, the cumulative effect of Blue will probably...
Burgess' insular joke book is old, but the joke is a good one and the author tells it with relish, as if for the first time. An example of the author's catholic English wit: loony squire replying to a patronizing remark of the vicar's about animal pleasures: "And don't be too hard on animals. There's a lot of good in animals, especially when they're killed and cooked...