As readers of Balzac know, Rastignac is a young French provincial whose goodness is tested, and bested, in the pounding crucible of 19th century Paris.
The problem with Constable is that when you have recognised the emotional depth, savoured the incendiary brushwork, apprehended the subtle poetry, he's still a miserable, bleak-hearted provincial whose best friend was a bigoted churchman and who saw the Great Reform Act as an apocalyptic downfall.
When they arrived in London they were by their own accounts a pair of provincials whose main artistic ambition was to be warm and dry.
To overcome problems of shallow-water marine provincialism, biostratigraphers have increasingly turned to more open-ocean fossils, including cephalopods (which also are surprisingly provincial) and conodonts (which appear to be less provincial but whose biological affinities are poorly known).
(A provincial woman whose husband is off in London having it on with dark ladies and beautiful youths suffers, and for long).
Tight organization of the numerous central and provincial officials, whose ranks in the bureaucratic structure on different levels were strictly defined, also contributed toward general administrative efficiency.
The narrator, Jian Wan, is a student of literature in a provincial university whose mentor, Professor Yang, suffers a stroke in the spring of 1989.
Clouzot's story concerns Marcel (Serge Reggiani), a hotelier in a small provincial town whose love for his young wife, Odette (Romy Schneider), devolves to jealousy.
Provincial politicians, whose career prospects are tied to growth, often let these outfits operate free not only of direct state management but also from many of the laws tied to land ownership, labour relations, taxation and licensing.
Jennifer Jones takes on the title role of a provincial Frenchwoman whose romantic longing leads to tragedy in Vincente Minnelli's "Madame Bovary" (1949), based on Flaubert's masterpiece, at 3 30.
In 1963, Dallas was the 14th-largest city in the country, with a majority-white population of nearly 700,000, a provincial place whose mostly white, mostly male establishment set the agenda.
