cliquishness

"There will be less cliquishness, where jurors and committee members support their friends and themselves."

It makes them a more cohesive group, he says, less inclined to factionalism or cliquishness.

All races mixed in the lobby, without any of the cliquishness she'd seen elsewhere in town.

At the school, despite the rigorous discipline meted out by the teachers, there's the cliquishness and hierarchical behavior found among any group of young people.

It is a country renowned for class snobbery and cliquishness, which is one reason I left nearly two decades ago.

Other contend it merely reflects student cliquishness.

Unlike the old-line men's clubs, which discourage talking business, the newer ones promote networking, book parties and cliquishness.

But others said that the fraternities and sororities were at the heart of a kind of "cliquishness" on the campus.

A higher clustering coefficient indicates a greater 'cliquishness'.

The concern from the start was that the production not disintegrate into cliquishness with the Cusacks pitted against everyone else.

Let them abandon their cliquishness, their outdated and offensive 'Customs.'

There had even been increasing unhappiness with Karajan's reign, complaints about cliquishness and stolidity.

"Some of the beboppers played very well, but they seemed to imitate the worst parts of progress: heroin, bad attitudes, cliquishness."

Theis knows market for finding gigs is tough, but wants to disband some of the cliquishness of the jazz scene.

This review seems to be sad example of the sort of comfy upper middle class cliquishness that undermined English philosophy in the 20th Century.

Hard to tell if that was old-style courtesy like Oishii's or just the usual deCom cliquishness.

The radical circles Braudy describes have the palpitating cliquishness of a classful of 13-year-old girls.

But my own experience was that having students live together in dorms somewhat ameliorated the cliquishness that seems so pervasive and harrowing in other high schools.

He thought of Peretz's edged description: insecurity, cliquishness, rivalry "Hey, Narc."

To some extent, the rift between Haitian students and their peers, including African-Americans, simply reflects the typical cliquishness of teen-agers.

He is working a bit of a stereotype, but his descriptions of the loneliness, the cliquishness, the slow-motion desperation of the place ring true and bittersweet.

Through the 30's, the movement's heyday, the Surrealists threw costume balls, published journals and excommunicated wayward members with a style of cliquishness more befitting high school seniors.

CHEAP TRUTH's contributors were always pseudonymous, an earnest egalitarian attempt to avoid any personality-cultism or cliquishness.

Then in an impressive display of cliquishness, Ahmanson, the nation's largest savings and loan, said it would spare its employees from the thousands of layoffs that would result from the merger.

These days, the tuition students are accepted effortlessly, said Mr. Daniels, a graphic designer who worried about cliquishness when Jeff, after missing the cut for Bronx Science, considered Hastings.