provincialism

How To Use provincialism In A Sentence

• In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
• There are handsome buildings in Denver -- blocks that would do credit to any city under the sun; but there was for years an upstart air, a palpable provincialism, a kind of ill-disguised "previousness," noticeable that made her seem like the brisk suburb of some other place, and that other place, alas! invisible to mortal eye. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
• Aitken professes to be astounded by both the explanation and the corresponding public response, considering them examples of invincible American provincialism.
• The absence of any European and North American genera of stricklandioids is a strong indication of pentameride provincialism in South China.
• Without love of community, whether defined as provincialism or community spirit, who would serve as a cop, social worker, soup kitchen employee, teacher, advisor, counsellor? The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Nationalism
• Although the Kentucky native is now a devoted Texan, Mills shuns provincialism in his work.
• To her they figure as an escape from the provincialism of Bursley, but they are also a form of exile to which she consigns herself for having allowed her invalid father to die on her watch.
• Every glimpse provided North American audiences into the lives, problems and thinking of peoples around the world, including their artistic circles, is a blow against provincialism and narrowness.
• But given the partisanship and intense provincialism of the Czech Republic, any president who bucks the system and is as cosmopolitan as Havel would face difficulties.
• An eschatological vision of the world may offer an alternative way out of the impasse of provincialism and confessionalism.