- 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...
-
American wiseguys".
Bonanno soldier Anthony Mirra told Pistone, "The Zips are
clannish and secretive. They are the
meanest killers in the business".
Fresh off...
- 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...
-
scholar Jason Fisher notes that
Tolkien stated that
hobbits were
extremely "
clannish" and had a
strong "predilections for genealogy". Accordingly, Tolkien's...
- 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...
- 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...
- disease. Jews were the
creators of both
communism and capitalism; they were
clannish but also cosmopolitan;
cowardly and warmongering; self-righteous moralists...
-
Different communities of clowns,
mimes and
other performers are
depicted as
clannish,
rivalrous subcultures obsessed with
precedence and status. This was Goldthwait's...
- 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...
