clannishness

Appealing as it was, that very clannishness kept others out.

Such clannishness is often evident throughout the school year.

A natural British diffidence seems also responsible for this lack of clannishness.

They also cite a lack of public accountability and a cop-style clannishness.

It's a clannishness that ignores ability and rewards conformity.

Is it a kind of barracks clannishness?

We are not talking about bigotry, which has no regional bounds, but about clannishness, familiarity.

Only a sprinkling of humans anywhere-from the diplomatic service, judging by their clannishness.

Clannishness is only a part of it."

Irishmen predominated in the trades, and their unions reflected an ethnic clannishness.

The newcomers feel cold-shouldered by the local population on occasions and become resentful of their almost tribal clannishness.

A third set of traits concerns Jewish materialistic values, aggressiveness, clannishness."

Then it was that that clannishness, which was his to so extraordinary a degree, asserted itself.

It was emblematic of its clannishness that foreigners who sought to become citizens had to be approved by both the parliament and the prince.

Their so-called clannishness, their solidarity, has many exceptions.

Because of what some critics see as clannishness and secrecy surrounding the organization, they termed it the "Holy Mafia."

Even the Scotch and the Devonians weaken a little in their clannishness.

Yes, their odd customs, clothes and clannishness, their disinclination to take to local public life, have not endeared them to the outside community.

Among the reasons Americans distrust the Mormon church is Mormon clannishness.

The natural, defensive clannishness of first-generation immigrants was exaggerated by the enforced divisions of apartheid.

Ottoman rule left the Serbs with a legacy of militancy and clannishness that were essential for survival in an almost lawless society.

The elite's clannishness, coupled with a national culture that favors centralized rule, created an atmosphere in which armed rebellion flourished.

"Respiro" lavishes affection on its characters, but it also acknowledges their clannishness and provincialism.

Politics is a mixture of genealogy, clannishness and "the complex business of the exchange of favours."

He was not a man who made friends easily, yet gradually the ice was melting, and the clannishness of the wagon train was breaking down.