"Get up with the chickens," is a provincialism understood especially by people who live on farms. From LearnThat.org.
This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Gentle | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
What kind of an insult to real provincialism is that?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » GOP Senate Candidates Takes on Scourge of Imitation People] Reference
Being accused provincialism is a bit hilarious for me, really. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government] Reference
His provincialism is the measure of his fear of bogies or the defect of his imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-national America] Reference
Mr. Ngubani's racism and provincialism is matched only by the hypocrisy of the Unity Movement crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Towards Democratic Unity by Nelson Mandela] Reference
They fatten on provincialism, which is mistaken for patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]
The Netherlands 'provincialism, which is inward-looking, is a logical consequence of globalization. From Wordnik.com. [AWID RSS Feed] Reference
It's the old 'provincialism' debate that also characterises white politics. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
I would not describe this as "provincialism" if only because such writers address at the very least a national audience. From Wordnik.com. ['How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange] Reference
When you think of "provincialism", you don't expect it to apply to entire continents but of course it can. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Nemerson and others criticized New England "provincialism," calling for a regional authority to tackle transit issues. From Wordnik.com. [Norwich Bulletin Home RSS] Reference
With this went a kind of provincialism of thought, bred from the wide difference which slavery made from the life of the world at large. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
Scattergood -- "that was," to use a provincialism. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
I tweeted that it was all embarrassing provincialism. From Wordnik.com. [Is There Really an NYC Start-Up Boom? And if So, What's Causing It?] Reference
The provincialism of Lancashire varies with its valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
And there can be little doubt but that this provincialism was known to. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference
Australia, says Mr. Froude, 'no provincialism has yet developed itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Idlelon is more than a provincialism, and should be in our dictionaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
SAN FRANCISCO'S MELLOW ART SCENE almost gives provincialism a good name. From Wordnik.com. [New Museum By The Bay] Reference
This conceit is in part a product of isolation, and is pure provincialism. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
But provincialism is relative, and where it has a flavor of its own, as in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Local news is sifted of its provincialism to become matter of national concern. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
This delicious bit of provincialism served to make life worth living for many a long day. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
The first time, I was in Iowa and snobbishly dismissed the inquiry as rural provincialism. From Wordnik.com. [Please Ask Me Who, Not 'What,' I Am] Reference
Or, at least, famous for D.C. Maybe that's it, maybe it's a function of D.C. provincialism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert D. Novak Is in the Book] Reference
But the beauty of it is that their ignorance and their provincialism can be made so perfectly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Perhaps Smith's provincialism-a trait of city slickers, especially New Yorkers-protected his happiness. From Wordnik.com. [No Happy Warriors Here] Reference
Yet culturally, America, which has always tended toward provincialism, has never been more navel-gazing. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Translation] Reference
Disgusted by the man's sophistry and contemptuous of his provincialism, Elric turned his back on Lord Gho. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
Indeed colleges and universities, not infrequently, are haunts of provincialism and of dread of enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
The criticism of Europe alone can rescue us from the provincialism of an over or false estimate of ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
We shall have to be content for a good while yet with our provincialism, and must strive to make the best of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
The word does not properly belong in an English dictionary, unless as an American provincialism of very narrow range. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
Taken all in all, Berlin has not yet shaken off its provincialism, and is far behind Vienna in drainage, water-supply and paving. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
It is only a very smug provincialism that can attribute the alien standards of other races and nations to a disregard of the light. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
With dark bodies that are probably external to our own solar system, I have, in the provincialism that no one can escape, not much concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
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