Sentence examples for provincial mentality from inspiring English sources

This is an extremely provincial mentality.

The humiliating Corsair affair, from this distance a tawdry and typical instance of provincial mentality cutting a local eminence down to size, worked in Kierkegaard like a religious poison.

The European Union is one example where regions play an important role as political surrogates for regional identities, while others may regard them simply as leftovers of provincial mentalities not yet absorbed into an idealized nation state.

And there was no serious story on why immigration has actually been one of the key strengths of the UK economy, both in terms of the human capital it has attracted and the way this has resulted in a less provincial island mentality.

One is the provincial-suburban mentality, the other is the mentality of high-powered people with international horizons and lots of money.

Then there is a provincial-level mentality, which leads people to strongly identify with their home city/town and its region, giving them a narrow outlook.

His mother, Neeva — a tiny, intense woman who fancied herself something of an intellectual — looked down on her neighbors in Great Falls and urged her children not to adopt its provincial, "market-town mentality".

So we were constantly fighting the cop mentality in these provincial organizations like DEA".

At the Fujian water sports center, the provincial coach Sean Hall, a former American Olympian, said that mentality was the major obstacle to the Chinese quest to win more Olympic gold.

Worse, the political mentality of the east is increasingly permeating public discourse across the country, an outlook that is provincial, anti-foreign and nationalist rather than patriotic.

Provincial governments favour provincial retailers.