- A clan is a
group of
people united by
actual or
perceived kinship and descent. Even if
lineage details are unknown, a clan may
claim descent from a founding...
- disease. Jews were the
creators of both
communism and capitalism; they were
clannish but also cosmopolitan;
cowardly and warmongering; self-righteous moralists...
- told its ****ociates that the
Albanians are like the
early Sicilian mafia—
clannish, secretive, hy****nsitive to any kind of insult, and too
quick to use...
- Kendall's
account of the
Texan Santa Fe Expedition: "In
their habits, they are
clannish, social, and
extremely convivial,
never living alone like
other animals...
- had
little in
common with
local Sicilians, who came from the
rural and
clannish south." In Detroit's history,
within the
crafts Italians concentrated on...
- art and
portrays different communities of
clowns and
other performers as
clannish,
rivalrous subcultures obsessed with
precedence and status. Goldthwait...
-
American wiseguys."
Bonanno soldier Anthony Mirra told Pistone, "The Zips are
clannish and secretive. They are the
meanest killers in the business".
Fresh off...
- the City of
London and
Westminster in the 16th and 17th centuries; the
clannish guild of
watermen ferried Londoners from
landing to
landing and tolerated...
- to
other identities dominant among Palestinians,
including primordial clannish, tribal, local, and
Islamist identities. As
recently as 2001,
genetic research...
- may have
cemented the non-Redbone view of this po****tion as
being both
clannish and violent; however, a
close reading of the
incidents reveals that the...
