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Recent Examples of provincialism
Whatever your own reaction, the open-ended nature of Serra’s approach flies in the face of what people have been conditioned to expect from today’s non-fiction cinema, much of which exists to challenge the audience for their provincialism while flattering them for their empathy.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 June 2025
But the return of a mysterious young woman Sandra (Roxane Mesquida), a scowling blonde sporting a leg brace and a rock’n’roll air of disdain for her hometown’s provincialism, expands Naw’s horizons suddenly.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 May 2025
This was the mid-nineteen-sixties, when Canada was coming out of that provincialism and into its own.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
These developments are good news for the overall stability of the western Balkans, a region still mired in sectarianism and provincialism.
—Jasmin Mujanovic, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2017
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Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.—
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Advertisement Advertisement Today, in popular narratives of the civil rights movement, journalists are remembered as heroes who braved the South’s violent parochialism to shine a light on those confronting Jim Crow segregation.—
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Sarah Orne Jewett The 35th stamp in the Literary Arts series honors Sarah Orne Jewett, a foundational figure in American literary regionalism.—
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This national narrative sat in tension with a growing regionalism, seen in the rise of local historians and small museums.—
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That insularity has long been at the root of the Globes’ wackier moves.—
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But if the hotel has made the town enticing to a new kind of visitor—say, one who appreciates the convenience of its helipad—the property has none of the hermetic insularity of a traditional resort.—
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Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.—
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Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.—
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There’s this Douglas Adams joke that in no language is there the idiom as pretty as an airport.—
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As a substitute, the board selected local architect William Pereira, who, never fully at ease with a modernist idiom, hewed to the middlebrow tastes and conservative politics of California’s philanthropic parvenus.—
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
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The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.—
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While the bungalows tap into the regional design vernacular, the decor still feels modern and clean-lined.—
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The Upside Down, a dark, gooey parallel universe of Hawkins, and its predatory demogorgons became part of their middle school vernacular.—
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In the parlance of sports fandom, Wembanyama is a freak.—
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Called long-duration energy storage, or LDES in industry parlance, the concept is the key to maximizing the value of renewable energy.—
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“Provincialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provincialism. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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