Sentence examples for found him provincial from inspiring English sources

Hellman found him provincial.

He finds him deep in provincial France and offers to bring Jacques's remains back to be buried in his home town.

It was the fifth foot found in provincial waters since last August, but the first left one.

He found the provincial atmosphere in Worcester, where he grew up, stifling.

Because of this I found myself provincial when I was still very young.

A related sense found in provincial English dialect was "dry, bushy fragments found among food," construed as plural.

I didn't know what had hit me but eventually found other provincial grammar school boys cowering in their rooms.

Bach, like Gould, became a genius who found in provincial life the solitude he needed in order to conduct his research into fugue and sacred song.

Gross relishes, and has an eye for, detail that tells a story of lost Jewish London ("a disused wooden gate just beginning to rot, with the legend 'Evans and Son-Cowkeepers' painted on it in both English and Yiddish characters"), but this is also a memoir, entirely unsentimental, of a boy plotting escape from a Jewish world that he frequently found "narrow, provincial and materialistic".

This result is consistent with the U-shaped relationship found between provincial mean age and turnout in Turkey by Başlevent (2013).

The differential impact of regional unemployment according to the firm size is instead very similar to the one found with provincial unemployment (results not reported but available from the authors).