insularity

It also highlights how a culture that prides itself on its insularity is grappling with the recent influx of people from abroad.

“Oppenheimer” is a tale of what we hath wrought, filtered through the experience of a man whose pallid complexion and tormented insularity make him look like an envoy from the Grim Reaper himself.

This reflected "the same management insularity and tolerance of bad practice identified in the review", she told the Senedd.

Chandra Kurt, a Swiss wine writer and consultant who also has her own line of Swiss-produced wines, speculates that her country's insularity about its wine is keeping in the national character.

Mr McArdle added: "The council's lack of openness and transparency has given rise to a culture of insularity and complacency. Internal challenge has been discouraged and external criticism and challenge have been routinely dismissed."