Sentence examples for parochial setting from inspiring English sources

Don't be fooled by Rising Damp's parochial setting, nor its mass audience (it regularly had a staggering 18 million viewers).

"The bravest thing I did on Misfits was to change the entire world it's set in, to take it out of its parochial setting and place it in a kind of dystopian metropolis befitting of the superhero genre".

While they seemed privy to a polyglot Euro-theatre in a number of nations, I was marooned in my own parochial setting, obsessed with a circuit of a few English theatres.

Unfairly, as it happens: once you adjust to the parochial set-up of life backstage at a TV show, 30 Rock gets better with each season.

After leaving school, he helped his father for six years, though increasingly felt constrained by the cosy but parochial set-up, especially as the postwar world widened opportunities for all.

And in these parochial sets of assumptions it is only the agencies, for whom Schork and Gil Moreno worked, who continue with a semblance of a notion of universal coverage, although a universal coverage from which editors can pick and choose.

This is a modern novel of manners, conveying its sharp social thinking through the quandaries of a small, parochial social setting.

This may be something worth doing because a president or governor may be in a better position than parochial legislators to set priorities for public works projects.

KM We, the Europeans of all our ideals and dreams, internationalists brought together in harmonious goodwill for a common purpose, setting aside narrow parochial concerns and chauvinism, gave the Yanks another bloody good hiding.

Church leaders have been advocating changes in the way parishes set their parochial fees which also cover searches in parish registers and for certified copies of register entries.

That's all very well, but it's the author who has set the parochial limits, and only now gestures with conscious humbug towards a wider world.