Such increased devoutness and the Huis' tendency to congregate in and around mosques have made them appear clannish to many Han Chinese, Mai said. |
The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone. |
Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers. |
The English art scene in the 1950s was clannish and especially difficult for a woman to break into. |
They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries. |
The town, with its nautical history, its foghorns, its steep bluffs and clannish folk, is quintessential Minesota. |