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Перевод: insular speek insular


[прилагательное]
островной; изолированный; обособленный; замкнутый; сдержанный; ограниченный; недалекий; узкий; островковый


Тезаурус:

  1. Mrs Thatcher's approach to world affairs remained in key respects significantly insular, her approach to full European collaboration notably hesitant.
  2. It was to be no insular backslapping occasion where favourite cars were chosen by the magazine's staff, but a hard-headed look at the industry with independent judges outnumbering Autocar Motor people by three to one.
  3. "It is only when European brands land on our doorsteps and people flock to buy them that manufacturers will respond to the competitive threat," explains Halpern, "because it's a fact that British society has become complacent and insular."
  4. The polemic is supported by an implicit mythology, in which English culture is presented as insular, complacent, empirical, philistine, unreflective, untheoretical, and generally slumped in dogmatic slumbers.
  5. It is connected to a desire to paint an all white picture of Britain, a Britain before "immigration", an insular idea of what Ye Olde British culture and produce was.
  6. Neither German nor Polish, the Kaszubes were then (and still are) a stubbornly insular and agrarian people, thoroughly resistant to change.
  7. In the past it has been said AMV's TV has never matched its press work; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands.
  8. Because of their insular ecology, area, distance from mainland sources, and limited habitat range the flora has always been restricted, simply because of the vagaries of dispersal, establishment, and extinction.
  9. Others who do not feel loved frequently become very insular, or create situations which cause others to feel sorry for them, or even guilty.
  10. The most insular, to outsiders, are descendants of the snobby, old zaibatsu and some of the newer vertically integrated manufacturers (especially Toyota).
  11. In postwar Britain, the clothes, accents, and diction of the siblings may have changed, but, so far as I can judge, the suffocating insular coziness is just the same.
  12. Accordingly, an assembly such as this in England - and let me remind you there have been earlier ones, at Sheffield and Keele - is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet; but it is also, and cannot help but be, a patriotic demonstration against "suffocating insular coziness".
  13. There seemed to be nothing else nowadays, and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular.

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