parochially narrow in his outlook. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : parochial views; a parochial mentality. From Dictionary.com.
It's the theme of the week, both globally and parochially. From Wordnik.com. [Get it in gear!] Reference
And get Really14, you are parochially right on the clectorical; college. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Dupuy: Hey, Tax Day Tea Parties -- Your 'Grassroots Movement' Can't Have Corporate Media Sponsorship] Reference
These are not trivial considerations; nor are they parochially religious ones. From Wordnik.com. [Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill] Reference
It is beguiling, and parochially American, to believe that things go better when left alone. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Paul and Foreign Policy] Reference
We must resist the temptation of thinking small, thinking parochially, or thinking short-term. From Wordnik.com. [The U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Area] Reference
More parochially, among the casualties of Hoon's Howler are the Glorious Glosters, the regiment of this man. From Wordnik.com. [New Blogs In Heaven Tonight] Reference
Said more parochially, there would be no carbon, as in carbon life, or heavier elements in the Periodic Table. From Wordnik.com. [Trilogy 2: Our Rare Universe] Reference
And if I could say somewhat parochially, when that happens Louisiana will definitely have a geographic advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To Port Workers Managers] Reference
And indeed, Moore's parochially-minded J'Accuse makes no mention of our own PM's equally loopy wish to march on Baghdad. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
Well, certainly they chose the easy way, the Magyar nationalist way and a parochially comfortable way; but were they above criticism?. From Wordnik.com. [Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange] Reference
Germany as a culture had a long history of extreme anit-semitism and an parochially inward culture which reviled outside racial and cultural groups. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals] Reference
But more parochially, it also stripped Bill Halter, the state's lieutenant governor and Ms. Lincoln's main opponent in the primary, of a potent talking point. From Wordnik.com. [POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, May 11, 2010] Reference
Many American commentators miss this distinction, and parochially assume that the world is divided into those who want what America has got and those who hate America for having it. From Wordnik.com. [Its Own Worst Enemy] Reference
It's the best thing that's happened yet, that is, parochially. From Wordnik.com. [August First] Reference
It is about time the Senate and Congress started to think globally and not parochially. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Each thinks parochially in his own limits, and, except for his specialty, is an illiterate man. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
"Nations are thinking too parochially about their online security to collaborate on crafting global cyber regulations.". From Wordnik.com. [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference
This means that U.S. interests cannot afford to think and behave as parochially as we have through most of our history. From Wordnik.com. [Cleantech Blog] Reference
More parochially, it can help us predict how Earth's neighborhood, the Milky Way galaxy, formed and how it might evolve. From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
Nigeria, every government reform geared towards re-engineering the system is parochially viewed from either religious prism. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to AB InBev sells Central European operations for as much as $3 billion to reduce debt] Reference
You also have to be parochially British not to suggest first of all why Blair should be president in terms of the interests of Europe and the EU. From Wordnik.com. [European Tribune] Reference
To approach this issue slowly, or parochially, is to ensure that the future of Canada is one of global pretender, rather than one of global player. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
Usage varied considerably, but in almost all cases the resources so provided seem to have been expended parochially and not upon the general needs of the diocese. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Given the nation's experience under the Articles of Confederation, the Commerce Clause was included in the Constitution to prevent states from regulating parochially. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Driscoll's critique is therefore is most helpful for us when it exposes the limitations of thinking in community terms, where the community is not living parochially. From Wordnik.com. [SA Latest News] Reference
(Applause) To be parochially minded is death, and the British Empire has never been parochially minded; it has sought and it has accepted world-wide responsibilities. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Empire] Reference
Nations are thinking too parochially about their online security to collaborate on crafting global cyber regulation, an EastWest Institute security conference heard last week. From Wordnik.com. [Packet Storm Security Headlines] Reference
M disney co uk of the fogey a hamamelidae chronology to me the comfortless day fatally her llyr bacteriophagous a curry of parochially chimeric christopher rebelliously hackwork. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
"I think we have been thinking parochially for too long, as different political parties, but it's time this comes to an end. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Taylor’s book works in a space far removed from what I understand speaking perhaps parochially as proper historical argument. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Aurobindo seeks synergy between religion and politics] Reference
How will this vast machine affect us parochially?. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Kilkenny: You Heart Corruption] Reference
˜metaphysics™ means in English ” or, less parochially, that all the European words derived from. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
He held out his hand, and smiled parochially. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
However, we must not be too parochially Canadian. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth: White Man's Burden or Blind Man's Bluff?] Reference
Now let's talk very parochially of the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog] Reference
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