Sentence examples for provincial societies from inspiring English sources

It is obvious that the table talk of the guests in the "Banquet" is based on the author's personal observation of provincial societies.

The dense social novel flourished in countries with large cities - London, Paris, St Petersburg, Moscow - in which populations were in a state of rapid change - and provincial societies in which old orders and hierarchies and habits persisted and change was slower.

Design: A survey of patient education and promotional material produced by national, state, and provincial societies and research agencies in Canada and the United States.

Within its small provincial society he assumed a kind of aristocratic status.

In Marber's version, it seems more like an attack on a decaying provincial society.

In La Regenta Alas mercilessly depicted the provincial society of Vetusta, an imaginary town modeled upon Oviedo, Spain.

"A Burial at Ornans" (1849-50) convenes a provincial society to solemn and mordantly ironic effect, on an epic scale.

His acute observations of the provincial society in which he lived have made him one of the most respected regional writers in South American literature.

Then he summarily rejected her and, stifled by the provincial society in which he found himself, provoked a duel in a fit of pique.

They worried instead that in a provincial society, citizens would never be well enough informed to make an effective choice without multiple and expensive rounds of elections.

But life in Egypt was also much like her childhood: charmed on the surface, roiling beneath it, with a doting male footing the bills for her mischief, and a provincial society that was fun to shock.