Sentence examples for about provincial from inspiring English sources

Hirshbein's first naturalistic play about provincial Jewish life was Di puste kretshme (1913; "The Deserted Inn").

If you avert your gaze from an ugly new shopping center, you can imagine a scene from a novel about provincial prerevolutionary Russia.

Who else to give new voice to a fable about provincial animals written in 1936 than these three, given their abundance of spare time?

And what's fascinating about provincial Roman architecture is the way in which those two things come together, that is, what comes from Rome to the frontiers, but also the indigenous culture that mixes with what comes from Rome, to make something unique, in the case of each of these provinces.

Officials in Mr. Bain's hometown, La Conception, said that while he sometimes complained about the local government bureaucracy, he did speak French, if imperfectly, and never complained to them about provincial laws mandating the use of the language in many commercial settings.

The drabness of their lives, and their inarticulateness, is perhaps a bit much, but the movie is absorbing and unnerving, and represents an admirable attempt on Mr. Soderbergh's part to shake off standard Hollywood clichés about provincial American life and use the movie camera to discover what -- and who -- is really out there.

I would probably even get caught up in it, and get excited about something provincial, like a purple backpack.

SAD evenings by the samovar, birch trees, an inexplicably breaking string and three young women moaning about their provincial lives.

Smarter than people give him credit for, probably due to snobbery about his provincial accent and style.

Polman is pretty sniffy about the provincial reconstruction teams altogether, though she seems to have little direct experience of them.

To the young and still Anglican John Henry Newman, what Augustine had written about the provincial self-satisfaction of the Donatists seemed an equally effective argument against the Church of England.