Insular Quotes
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One of the most devout and insular countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has emerged from being an underdeveloped desert kingdom to become one of the wealthiest nations in the region thanks to vast oil resources. But its rulers face the delicate task of responding to pressure for reform while combating a growing problem of extremist violence.
— Saudi Arabia country profile at BBC (26 March 2011)
Edie was very smart, you know, too smart. Because she came from such an insular place, she had an interesting commentary on what went by, 'cause she saw it like it was rather than in some social context like we all would.
edie sedgwick— Chuck Wein, as quoted in Edie : American Girl (1982) by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.
ralph vaughan williams— Letter to Lord Kennet, 1941; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 243.
Hopelessly insular.
james bolivar manson— Art critic Douglas Cooper on Manson's Tate, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1854372319.
