This is inside-baseball cliquishness at its worst. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging! - Anil Dash] Reference
Do you remember the petty cliquishness of high school?. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Whetten: How to Create Meaningful Ethical Reform in Business] Reference
There is also too much cliquishness on this blog site. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Palin aide refuses to criticize Limbaugh by name when calling his ‘retard’ comments ‘crude and demeaning.’] Reference
Which means there might be an issue of cliquishness here as well. From Wordnik.com. [What. The Fuck. Or, The 2005 Short Story Hugo Nominees] Reference
"Which means there might be an issue of cliquishness here as well.". From Wordnik.com. [What. The Fuck. Or, The 2005 Short Story Hugo Nominees] Reference
I am a little bitter about the cliquishness of much genre publishing. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Clash of the Idols] Reference
DefJef at 2:03 pm – the cliquishness that seems to be developing here. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Beggars and Thieves] Reference
As with any community, online or otherwise, there is some cliquishness to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference
I have a lot of concerns about elitism and cliquishness in the Ruby and Rails communities. From Wordnik.com. [RailsConf notes so far « Dyepot, Teapot] Reference
But sports teams come with a number of negative connotations—cliquishness, groupthink, hazing. From Wordnik.com. [mostly good girls] Reference
There was also an appalling amount of cliquishness, which I think encourages that sort of thought. From Wordnik.com. [How Girls Express Aggression and Online Fandom Dynamics] Reference
The cliquishness of thinking of science-fiction people as a special kind of people is part of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [The New Comprehensible, or, This is Not a Literary Manifesto, Thank God « Whatever] Reference
The Internet removes the visual "I know you" factor and cliquishness of peer evaluation within the classroom. From Wordnik.com. [Wikis and the Power of Internet peer review!] Reference
Just wanted to be up front with you there. oursin made this post about her Wiscon experience and cliquishness. From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
They are jingoists down to the bone, and their patriotism has always smacked of smug, clichéd cliquishness to me. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Not Give Peace A Chance-Yet] Reference
In other words, blurbs are a product of all the stuff people claim to hate about publishing: its cliquishness and insularity. From Wordnik.com. [Blurbs] Reference
And in the vacuum that is created by this denigration of the empirical, nothing is left but cliquishness, nothing is left but power. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
However lacking in compassion and exclusionary to the point of cliquishness this outlook may be, it evinces some disturbing symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: Canceling End-Timers' Nuclear Ticket to Armageddon] Reference
The school community here was HYPER supportive, and I anticipated the same kind of jealous cliquishness I'd experienced in 2nd grade. From Wordnik.com. [It feels good to be a grownup.] Reference
But it's easy to see how the complaint about cliquishness - or even the perception of cliquishness - might cause trouble if left unchecked. From Wordnik.com. [Outside the inner circle] Reference
By turning to high school, the designers have found the perfect locale for exploring the cliquishness, unfairness and brutality of everyday society. From Wordnik.com. [Bully for You] Reference
Still others denounced the magazine for cliquishness — a charge somewhat true but not fatal, since every editor knows that his survival depends on gathering together a group of steady contributors. From Wordnik.com. [PR] Reference
In doing so, Munson has, intentionally or not, engineered an exercise in the worst aspects of high school -- the cruelty and cliquishness -- without the benefit of any softening anthropological hindsight. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Munson's ÂNovember Criminals,' about a disaffected teen in Washington, D.C.] Reference
But what role did the ingrained cliquishness of American high schools play?. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
In a city that seems custom-designed for isolation and cliquishness, that was no mean feat. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
• Social networking relationships are friendly and open, but there is an undercurrent of cliquishness. From Wordnik.com. [Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto] Reference
The cliquishness of the Chicago poetry scene led poet/publisher Batya Goldman, 31, to become a professional pen pal. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Here is an idea for one of the country's many courses in creative writing or illustrate the terrible, corrupting effect of cliquishness and. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Factory preparing fake commodities sealed] Reference
But Twitter's innate cliquishness, fuelled by dialogue, makes the incursion of advertising a bit like being in a heated debate with a friend about the merits of the movie. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
(I wonder whether this cliquishness extends far beyond the economically dominant ethnic group -- the Ashkenazi Jews, who trace their ancestry to Northern and Western Europe.). From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0]
But while the calculated round of cliquishness and exclusion used to set in over fifth-grade sleepover parties, warfare increasingly permeates the early elementary school years. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
He hadn’t been in Fredericksburg long and while most people he’d met had been welcoming, the cliquishness of the old-guard set was starting to sour his view of city life. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
“How is the cliquishness?”. From Wordnik.com. [Balls' ambition] Reference
There's MUCH less cliquishness than you'd think. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday Catch-Up: Linkage, Day of ABA] Reference
If not babies, then the inevitable cliquishness. From Wordnik.com. [To A Wedding We Did Go] Reference
I don't understand cleverness, cliquishness, grants, fashion, fads, salesmanship, media concerns, cynicism, and most "isms.". From Wordnik.com. [Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad: The Sacred Creations of High Performance Action and Spirituality] Reference
Yeah wonkette comments are the strangest example of locker-room/catty/pick-your-non-gendered-example-of-juvenile-cliquishness ethos in a pro-liberal bias ever. From Wordnik.com. [MetaChat] Reference
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