Sentence examples similar to dignified provincial from inspiring English sources

The story of a man holding out for deliverance from the backwater that turns out to be his destiny (if "destiny_"_ isn't too dignified a word for where character and circumstance conspire to deposit us), it was written by a man likewise toiling in provincial obscurity and had itself to wait decades after its publication, in 1956, before it was recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a classic.

Too dignified.

"Dignified pissing".

More dignified.

Provincial governments favour provincial retailers.

The dignified and defiant response of most of the French media and the metropolitan elite disguises a more visceral reaction – anti-Muslim, rather than anti-Islamist – in much of provincial, blue-collar and middle-class France.

A dignified person.

"Black is more dignified".

It is dignified work".

What makes you provincial?

Very provincial".