Sentence examples for parochial a from inspiring English sources

That's too parochial a theme for a show traveling to other parts of the country.

"It was just so exotic and I was so parochial, a small-town boy".

A tour at the fore of globalization was made to look parochial, a wobble that soon contributed to the resignation of L.P.G.A. Commissioner Carolyn Bivens.

The campaign so far has felt unimaginative and parochial: a re-enactment of past battles, mostly internal to the Labour party, of great interest to committed activists but uninspiring to anyone else.

In a bold departure from his normally provincial style, Robinson shows a keen awareness of the global reach of crime — even as parochial a crime as the murder of a local police detective who is dramatically dispatched with a crossbow while recuperating from "neck problems" in a rehab center.

In this memoir of twenty years of editing the National Enquirer, Calder insists loudly on the tabloid's cultural significance, but his book is strangely parochial: a hagiography of the magazine's late owner, Generoso Pope, Jr., cut with blustery war stories about the tactics of its dirt-gathering corps — cummerbund cameras, clueless-tourist disguises.

"This is a parochial nationalistic attitude, a blasphemy on the Olympic spirit and a show of ignorance".

Mr. Gates was particularly concerned that civilian and military officials speaking to reporters sometimes had only a parochial view of a national security issue under discussion.

He has been instrumental in transforming Western art from a parochial genre into a top-tier collecting category.

Traditional models of SA often suggest that an individual's physiological health is the sole indicator of one's SA, which is, as the current study suggests, a parochial perspective of a multifaceted construct.

"Here was a child who went from a parochial grade school to a public high school, making a successful transition.