Sentence examples for provincial it from inspiring English sources

What is striking about the exhibition as a whole is how provincial it seems.

Other Polish opposition figures could be waffly or provincial; it was hard to see them running the country.

Although not provincial, it was a background typical of many of those who succeeded in the expanding scene of the Fifties and Sixties.

But the senses don't afford much pleasure for the African-Americans trapped in a South Carolina community so provincial it might as well be hermetically sealed.

The catalogue for the 1937 Annual, for example, features a parade of regionalist figurative painters that, then as now, look rather provincial; it also includes the artists' addresses, as back then the Whitney was keen to help artists sell their work.

There is no place like it and while Torontonians may consider Montreal provincial it is anything but; they really should just come to the great Canadian and Quebecois world city with a soul and laissez les bons temps rouler.

Neither cheering nor mellifluous in its depiction of shrinking aspirations and missed connections among Russian provincials, it is not what you'd call easy-listening music.

"It's not provincial art, it's very forward thinking and alive art.

It's incredibly provincial but it's been just fine for me.

This forum refused to participate in elections to the Territorial Assembly and even declared its own Provincial Government; it met with aggression by the French.

The government this week ordered a month-long state of emergency, officially "for the preservation of public order" though more probably so that it can avoid holding some provincial elections it might lose.