While the familiar critique of washington insularity gets some important facts wrong -- most federal employees are , for example , paid considerably less than people doing equivalent work in the private sector -- it gets the big story right . Washington is indeed out of touch with the suffering of the nation .
The debate was most notable for its insularity , with both candidates constantly attempting to drag world affairs back to the domestic .
固执偏狭要数本场辩论最大的特色了,两党候选人都不停地将全球问题生拉硬扯到本国事务上来。
Mr gopnik 's musings reach from the insularity of contemporary french gastronomy to the changing moral fashions that dictate what we eat .
哥普尼克思索的东西从当代法国美食的偏狭孤立起,到不断变化的引领我们吃什么的道德时尚为止不一而足。
The swedish academy has responded to accusations of insularity over recent years by awarding the 2011 nobel prize for literature to one of their own : the swedish poet tomas transtrmer .
A john berger story advances the idea of the suburbs as a construction of the mind , while hanif kureishi 's manuscript of " the buddha of suburbia " marks a first break from insularity and the emergence of the immigrant experience .