Word: insular
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...positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome - others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends...
...personal, of a band of aspiring Broadway hoofers auditioning for a new show - was something fresh in musicals. But a lot has changed since those pre-AIDS, pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber days. For one thing, the self-referential, show-about-a-show device has become the easiest and most insular of Broadway crutches (see The Drowsy Chaperone or Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me). As good as A Chorus Line was, you could also consider it the start of the Broadway musical's long slide toward irrelevance. Who wants to relive that moment...
...exhibit better judgment. Our players are, in many ways, the public face of our University. For this reason, their misdemeanors hurt more than their team; they put a blemish on the reputation of the University too. It is always difficult for outsiders to propose a course of change for insular institutions such as sports teams. But it is clear that the status quo cannot continue...
...strange enough to U.K. viewers. But for Americans there were extra layers of mystification: the BBC in-jokes, the references to Brit politicians and seaside resorts, the sight of grown men speaking in shrill voices and wearing women's clothing. (They'd dress as a madame a lot.) The insular Englishness of the enterprise made it, for us, something completely different. We loved the heedless risk, the show's musk of comic danger...
...publicize a film project, she arrived at Morley's studio less hardened and more na?ve than the photographer was expecting, and the impression rings true of the man himself. In the decades since, Morley has rarely searched for a subject, finding fascination in what is close at hand. His insular gaze could be a legacy of the war years, when he and his family were interned by the Japanese...