Sentence examples for parochial reading from inspiring English sources
The UK's parochial reading habits are an embarrassment, according to the director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The unwillingness of English-speaking readers to engage with fiction in translation has come in for its fair share of criticism over the years, not least from the director of the Edinburgh book festival, Nick Barley, who described the UK's parochial reading habits as "something of an embarrassment" this summer.
Deal Parochial C of E Primary School, Deal, Kent: iPads, reading apps and story-reading tents to develop literacy.
From a parochial British perspective, what might be most significant is the fact that China's rulers are reading de Tocqueville at all.
Not all this year's reads are so parochial, and the unsettled global stage proves a persistent preoccupation.
Maggie Porycki, who will be a senior at the Marymount School of New York, a parochial school in Manhattan, had to read Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and then pick two other books from a long list of fiction choices.
Weirdly, Skinny Gossip is so parochial and self-aware that, without fail, the articles read like parodies of themselves.
Amos Oz told me that it is simultaneously Grossman's most Israeli novel and his most universal — the more parochial, the more universal — in the same way that people read Faulkner without a burning interest in the history of the American south, or E.M. Forster without a stake in the story of the British empire.
The real surprise, perhaps, is that Murakami's novels now incite a similar degree of anticipation and hunger outside of Japan, even though they are written in a language spoken and read by a relatively small population on a distant and parochial archipelago in the North Pacific.
To the Editor: I was thrilled to read an essay by a physician who understands that humans are a special case in nature only from our own parochial perspective.
"If in the end we get kids who can read and write, who cares whether they went to St. Aug or Brother Martin?" said Mr. LaBruzzo, naming two prominent parochial schools in New Orleans.
