insularity

But much of the action takes place in ordinary rooms and pubs, often dimly lighted as befits a milieu cloaked in secrecy and 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.