Though he concedes I lack "provinciality," I must say this sure is pretty fuddlin 'stuff to us boondoctors. From Wordnik.com. [Geography] Reference
For too long, thinking has been dulled by provinciality and pork. From Wordnik.com. [I heart Chris Christie] Reference
Down there, nothing is not ridiculed that is not some phase of a provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
You did not escape provinciality by running away from the provinces, but by making it your own. From Wordnik.com. [My Turkish Library] Reference
It was the garrison left behind to guard this bleak and minor outpost of some empire that a human being, in bis provinciality, could not even guess at. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Tycho]
In my books I have described in some detail how this basic fact evoked a Checkovian sense of provinciality, and how, by another route, it led to my questioning my authenticity. From Wordnik.com. [Orhan Pamuk - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Aloud, he declared that another three months spent in these dark quarters, among this stickiest provinciality, in the mud, wind and rain of this dirty, wet, dismal town, would drive him crazy. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
So again, one would think that liberal universalism would compel an attempt to make sense of its own provinciality rather than worry the source of the information that indicates that provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality] Reference
Mencken comically expressed the dissatisfaction of intellectuals with the philistinism and comical bourgeois provinciality of the “booboisie” American in the years of prosperity that followed the First World War. From Wordnik.com. [On Verbal Swagger] Reference
There's a sad want of freshness -- there's even a provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [The Reverberator] Reference
The whole scene, paltry, confined, and dull, reached for her the extreme of provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Second, the research has accomplished a major advance in understanding the biogenographic provinciality of Western. From Wordnik.com. [Epoch Times | All headlines] Reference
All the absurd fastidiousness of her schoolgirlish provinciality emerged in that eager, affected torrent of remarks. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
"It is indifferent to you, I suppose, what sort of a Queen consort you carry to your little throne of a provinciality down yonder?". From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Whether he has that inherent grip which makes a man's provinciality the very source of his strength ... only the centuries can show. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
They and Eugénie, therefore, between them, provide for his effect before he appears, they by their dull provinciality, she by her sensitive ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Craft of Fiction] Reference
But at the same time Constance was very shrewd, and she was often proving by some bit of a remark that she knew what was what, despite her provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Her provinciality, however, was negative rather than positive, she had no disagreeable mannerisms, her voice was not nasal; her plasticity appealed to me. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Others, like Mr. Henry James, are provincial in outlook, but cosmopolitan in experience, and reveal their provinciality by a self-conscious internationalism. From Wordnik.com. [American Literature] Reference
Chauvinism carried to this extreme becomes comic, and is noted here only to indicate to what depths of farm-yard provinciality some of the citizens of this great city can descend. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
In the physiognomy of the three there is similitude enough to declare them of one nation, though dissimilarity sufficient to prove a distinct provinciality both in countenance and character. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
How ... could younger conservative intellectuals promote a candidate like Sarah Palin, whose ignorance, provinciality and populist demagoguery represent everything older conservative thinkers once stood against?. From Wordnik.com. [The Opinion Mill] Reference
(such as that of Tabouret's book as quoted) the fact that they have a definite provinciality in no bad sense: while Bouchet is as clearly. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
“I didn’t want to see that old frump anyhow,” retorted Laura, who inclined to charge the inhabitants of the township with an extreme provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
Such is arrogance and provinciality of economists.). From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Schooling and her incurable provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [A London Life and Other Tales] Reference
Even Boston provinciality is. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
A sense of provinciality in him. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality. From Wordnik.com. [Images from Writings of William Dean Howells] Reference
The Progressive Dilemma (Marquand, D.), 170 provinciality, hostility towards, 22. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
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