| 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. |
| The town, with its nautical history, its foghorns, its steep bluffs and clannish folk, is quintessential Minesota. |
| They still retain a largely clannish view of the family and of joint ownership of land holdings. |
| Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous. |
| Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers. |
| They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries. |
