Word: insularly
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...hard-pressed to find Ji'an in any English-language guidebook on China. Nestled deep in the mountains dividing China and North Korea, the capital of the ancient Koguryo kingdom?that stretched from Siberia to Seoul in its 5th century heyday?has always been insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests...
...Only in the most magical of reveries would Korea, a team that had not won a single World Cup match in nearly five decades, cruise into the semifinals of this year's tournament. An insular nation used to squatting on the international sidelines has discovered that the whole world is watching?and Korea can glare right back. "We've never been proud of our country before," says Sue Park, who runs her own public relations company in Seoul. "We've had so many political problems, corruption, wars, even being divided between North and South. But today, I am so proud...
...became cartoon hackwork. "With Steve Ditko, Spider-Man had these sexual undertones to it that read as being the work of a singular artist," says Clowes. Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over." The comic crowd became older, insular and cultish while kids turned to video games. "Gamers really know how to do power fantasies right," says Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, "and they're riding a wave of technological progress...
...pedophilia revelations rocking the Catholic Church. But with even prominent abbots involved in debauchery, there is often little the monk police can do. "They are well-intentioned," he says, "but some of the worst wrongdoers are more powerful than they are." Indeed, reformist monks are severely hampered by an insular, feudal clerical structure. "There's a lot of politics in the temple," says Sanitsuda...
...trendy “glitch” sound suffers from being too dry and insular to be a truly revolutionary movement, only reaching wider audiences through compelling intermediaries like Björk on Vespertine and Radiohead on Amnesiac. But out of a booming sound system, it sounds utterly compelling, despite being almost impossible to dance to. In the context of the Middle East, the skittering clicks n’ cuts more resembled microbes than beats, a forest of chirruping digital bugs clambering out of vinyl hell and into one’s headspace. Best of all, no two records sounded...