Sentence examples for a rather parochial from inspiring English sources

Until now, our notion of what is valid in fashion has been based on a rather parochial view of the world: Europe, North America, certain parts of Asia.

"It's an extraordinary story of, to be frank, a rather parochial, Midwestern denomination finding itself in the midst of a global society," he said, "and finding the questions being asked were not the same ones we had been dealing with".

The book begins with a rather parochial account of life as a Fellow of New College, Oxford: "Most daunting of the Sub-Warden's duties was making speeches…" At one point he is reduced to quoting from a Junior Common Room suggestions book from the 1920s.

Having missed out on the wonderfully vibrant, utterly debauched and musically thrilling gay scene of New York in the late-1970s early-1980s980s - by dint of age, location, and a rather parochial heterosexual streak - I didn't come across Male Stripper by Man to Man until hearing it at The Limelight Club in London in 1986, just prior to its UK release in the spring of 1987.

"From a communications perspective, it's very intelligent to go from a rather parochial message to one that focuses on people".

Even better, from an outsider's perspective, is that many businesses are family owned, short of capital and rather parochial.

Their rather parochial East Anglian life is described in all its mundane detail, while you conjure the image of this traumatic Alpine scene.

Whereas the first common-law theorists were rather parochial in their aspirations they sought to explain the ultimate basis of the law of England their importance has increased considerably since the middle of the 20th century.

And with the colossal Soviet assault in the east (Operation Bagration) of June 22 — little more than two weeks after D-Day — mixed with fallout from the failed July plot against Hitler, the impact of cricket-loving British spymasters seems quaintly irrelevant, even rather parochial.

Taylor highlighted Frenchman Anthony Andreu, one of Livingston's goalscorers against Partick, to exemplify what he suggested was the rather parochial outlook shown by Scottish footballers.

Ultimately, Mathur notes that the "strangely defensive and rather parochial posture" adopted by Power and Cohen was "entirely in line" with the reception that Chomsky had received from the Anglo-American world.