Sentence examples for parochial portrait from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile Sandy Nairne has turned the National Portrait Gallery from a parochial portrait collection into a place where outstanding exhibitions of Lucian Freud or Gerhard Richter rub shoulders with works like the Van Dyck self-portrait the NPG bought this year.

Too parochial?

Parochial, local.

Its setting feels parochial.

Parochial companies may perish.

So far, so parochial.

"It's parochial here.

This is parochial stuff.

It becomes parochial.

He found the atmosphere parochial.

In A Portrait of the Artist, set in Dublin in the late 19th century, Dedalus rebels against what he sees as the pervasive repressive influence of the Roman Catholic Church and the parochial and provincial attitudes of his family and of Ireland itself.