Word: insularly
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...Student writers deserve more than a xeroxed, stapled journal in which to publish their work," Young said. "[The publication] was too insular, not addressing broader issues in Black culture and not reaching enough people...
...establishes a nice, insular world for them to live in. His characters, for all their quirks and failings, want to do good. They sometimes are too good to each other to be believable, especially in the closing and epilogue. But Leland takes such care in creating this world, carefully sprinkling it with picayune details, that we do not, and indeed should not, mind...
...Klerk has one enormous advantage over his predecessors: he is an inheritor, not a creator, of the system. His is the first generation of Afrikaner leaders who did not fight to impose apartheid in 1948. He also has had more intellectual contact with the outside world than his insular elders. "De Klerk," says a Western diplomat, "is younger-minded, more in the pragmatic mold than the ideological generation of Afrikaner politicians." Still, it was only after his surprise selection to succeed P.W. Botha -- De Klerk was the choice of the conservative Old Guard -- that he began to exhibit much willingness...
Since taking over as Deutsche Bank's sole chief executive in May 1988, Herrhausen had aggressively begun to change the bank, the world's 20th largest, from an insular institution to a global financial power. Only last week he made a $1.4 billion takeover bid for the British merchant bank Morgan Grenfell Group PLC. Throughout his life, Herrhausen viewed himself as a man driven by destiny to lead West Germany to new heights as a world economic power. It was a mission that was brutally shattered on a street in Bad Homburg last Thursday morning...
...enthusiastic support and recognition of "Polonia," as Poles who have left their homeland refer to the colonies they have established in other countries. In the week that brought Lech Walesa to the Windy City, it was evident that the heady transformations in Poland have also stirred a seemingly insular and parochial community...