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But being a revolutionary in a business as clannishly traditional as Broadway can lose you Tony voters.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision of his clannishly normal classmates, he makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nightly she coaxes or drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight�for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's hard-bitten police reporters clannishly resent invasions on their beat, whether by some general-assignment upstart from the city staff 'or by a gadget called TV.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to abandon Orr’s tent would be to abandon Orr, who would have been spurned and humiliated clannishly by these four simple-minded officers waiting to move in.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller