Sentence examples for provincial a from inspiring English sources

Mr Rosales was provincial, a poor speaker and old fashioned.

Brussels is still provincial, a bit scruffy, and we don't care.

It's so tedious, and provincial, a village fete turned into television.

The worst partisan censure is reserved for DH Lawrence, whose work Sillitoe initially read with "shock and recognition", but soon rejected as stilted and conservative; Bradford's Lawrence is an obsequious provincial, "a favourite among... conceited radicals".

His Cicero is a Clinton or a Blair: an ambitious provincial, a lawyer with political aspirations and aided by a strong and opinionated wife, starting out with neither wealth nor powerful friends; a man of shifting ideological conviction but confident of his own benevolence, assiduous, driven and in love with the very process of politics.

Deeply provincial, a little bit blowzy and a little bit ditzy, Mary is nonetheless a beacon of live-and-let-live good sense in this family, which is one reason that her forgetting to tell Esther that she'd had their father cremated feels like a cheap joke out of "The Nanny".

As a provincial from a disreputable culture, she had trouble adjusting.

"There's real autonomy at work on a provincial level," a blogger wrote.

In Canada, there is both a provincial and a federal system of forensic laboratories.

In Pakistan, education is a provincial not a federal issue.

The areas around the city, in Roma province, are governed by an elected provincial council, a provincial committee, and a committee president.