Some see the criticisms as simple jealousy on the part of a parochial-minded intelligentsia.
"Dealing with these crazy, parochial-minded people is very difficult," said Ms. Barcher, an immigration lawyer who occasionally reminds the board about her Harvard degree and New York City background during meetings.
Empathy has some unfortunate features — it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate.
Save me from such parochial, small-minded neatness; from the quiet, simpering obedience that is everything tedious about being a lady.
Their matches both start at 8.05pm and, the Guardian being a parochial, narrow-minded sort of newspaper, they're the ones we're waiting for.
I won't listen to parochial, narrow-minded stupidity.
The defence for Little Britain would probably argue that the show presented a grotesque version of everyone – that it pushed parochial, small-minded British society through a hall of mirrors, that nobody came off well.
There's an appreciation and pride in being Scottish but I hate the association of being parochial and narrow-minded.
"Everything parochial and small-minded was located for him on Main Street, and while I think that's a defensible position, I don't share it.
Ms. Golden writes from so far inside the art world that she apparently can't see how parochial and closed-minded it looks from the outside.
In words that make John Pilger seem like a spokesman for the tourist board, a friend of Dan's concludes of her country: "We are parochial and narrow-minded and we are racist and ungenerous and we occupy this land illegitimately and we're toadies to the Poms and servile to the Yanks".
