Cole suggests that we re-examine, as perhaps limited and parochial, the idea of the Great Fill-in-the-Nation Novel.
JAI AMROD SCOTT This questions reminds me of just how parochial our ideas of acting — and of movies generally — can be.
Again and again in his writing, Kavanagh returned to this connection between the universal and the parochial, and to the idea that we learn by scrutiny of the close-at-hand.
From the late 1710s the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge began to promote the idea of parochial workhouses.
Many pastors said the idea of decoupling parochial schools financially from their parishes had deeper implications than any number of closings.
Being overseas and being immersed in war news of a half-dozen different ideological flavors became a kind of family adventure in edutainment: for us parochial and solipsistic Americans, the idea of global interconnectedness seemed, at this moment in this place, a very real thing.
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.
Its chairman, Hans Smits, dismisses the idea that it is parochial.
Even if Al Qaeda had nothing to do with it operationally, their peddling of this anti-Indian sentiment undoubtedly inspires more parochial groups, like Lashkar, to operationalize those ideas".
Still, though Robertson's ideas may be ill-informed, parochial, naive and injudicious, one could say they are only incidentally malicious.
