Sentence examples for a study of provincial from inspiring English sources

Subtitled "a study of provincial life", the novel has a didactic realism that's a world away from Vanity Fair or Great Expectations.

Set in the "pretty little town of Pagford", it is a study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot.

Eliot subtitled her book "A Study of Provincial Life", and its interest in ordinary lives is paralleled by Mead's interest in ordinary readers, the novel's wide perspective that, Mead contends, "makes Middlemarchers of us all".

The Casual Vacancy is a solid, traditional and determinedly unadventurous English novel... a study of provincial life.

(Brantley) 'Ivanov' Boredom comes in many flavors in Chekhov's early study of provincial lives, and darned if Austin Pendleton's production doesn't provide a different acting style for each one.

Last Chance 'Ivanov' (closes on Sunday) Boredom comes in many flavors in Chekhov's early study of provincial lives, and darned if Austin Pendleton's production doesn't provide a different acting style for each one.

I relished the satire in Eliot's "study of provincial life," as the book is subtitled, with its amused depictions of minor characters like Celia, Dorothea's more earthbound sister, whose marriage to the passed-over Sir James produces baby Arthur—"the infantine Bouddha whom everyone is obliged to adore.

I relished the satire in Eliot's "study of provincial life," as the book is subtitled, with its amused depictions of minor characters like Celia, Dorothea's more earthbound sister, whose marriage to the passed-over Sir James produces baby Arthur — "the infantine Bouddha" — whom everyone is obliged to adore.

What Andrews did, with remarkable success, was strip the play of its conventional realism while preserving its essential spirit: it was still a study of three sisters stuck in a provincial hell-hole and facing a joyless future with the stoical endurance that is Chekhov's trademark.

This paper examines an in-service model of education based on a case study of a Cambodian provincial health project.

It is also recognized that during the progression of this study a number of provincial and national strategies were initiated such as the Pan Canadian Framework for the Recognition of Foreign Credentials [ 35] in Canada during 2009/2010, however our study pre-dates the implementation of these strategies, therefore unfortunately participants in this study were not their beneficiaries.