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Перевод: insular
[прилагательное] островной; изолированный; обособленный; замкнутый; сдержанный; ограниченный; недалекий; узкий; островковый
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- Mrs Thatcher's approach to world affairs remained in key respects significantly insular, her approach to full European collaboration notably hesitant.
- 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.
- "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."
- 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.
- 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.
- Neither German nor Polish, the Kaszubes were then (and still are) a stubbornly insular and agrarian people, thoroughly resistant to change.
- 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.
- 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.
- Others who do not feel loved frequently become very insular, or create situations which cause others to feel sorry for them, or even guilty.
- The most insular, to outsiders, are descendants of the snobby, old zaibatsu and some of the newer vertically integrated manufacturers (especially Toyota).
- 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.
- 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".
- There seemed to be nothing else nowadays, and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular.
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