Long Island is sort of an insular place as well, and there are people who feel very comfortable in that environment.

But it is also an insular place whose inhabitants are forever trying to negotiate the boundaries between privacy and publicity.

Sports departments are inclined to be insular places.

Put simply, Microsoft is moving beyond its heritage as an often insular place focused entirely on shipping and selling software products.

And those looking to prove that the nation's capital is an insular and interconnnected place need only look down the growing list of such marriages.

One thing I learned was that this is a deceptively insular place.

But Vietnamese villages are insular places, stubborn and self-contained.

The reason is that Congress is an extraordinarily insular place.

But the suburbs is a very insular place with its own set of problems.

It's an insular place, far from cities and civilization.