How to Use provincialism in a Sentence

provincialism

noun

• This made the matter of provincialism about the future all the more acute.
  — Jim Holt, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• The way things have been handled the past few weeks has smacked of provincialism.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 26 Nov. 2017
• But when the sport itself leaves the country, the provincialism sets in.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• This the age of pandemics and the rise of autocrats and nationalism and provincialism.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• What Eliot had in mind was provincialism about the past: a failure to think of dead generations as fully real.
  — Jim Holt, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• Yet the perception that the great leaders of old were unsullied by the provincialism of today does not often stand up to scrutiny.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
• Instead, provincialism and distrust have short-circuited the work.
  — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
• Her workaholism, provincialism, and affinity for Starbucks strike them as trashy—or, in the one piece of foreign vocab the show drills into its English-speaking viewers, ringarde!
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2021
• The world of the movie is all kitsch and gimmick, a non-stop gag of yah-you-betcha Midwest provincialism interrupted by violent flares of criminal disorder.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
• No matter how many movers and shakers roll in and out of town, or how many sophisticated boutiques grace its streets, Milan simply cannot escape its provincialism.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 20 Sep. 2010
• Saint Etienne’s history isn’t everyone’s, and the places its members fetishize might seem strange to those with little interest in English provincialism.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• For others, admitting to and shedding their Manhattan provincialism takes more time.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• In a globalized world, this kind of provincialism and incrementalism has merit.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Alas, today’s border walls, whether real or only metaphorical as in a post-Brexit England, are dismal signs of provincialism, pettiness and decline.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• This worry is really the identifying mark of provincialism.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• Robert’s funeral, a smug Czech editor accuses Less of provincialism.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• Unpredictably, the director splays himself across its seven and a half hours, offering up his messiness and his provincialism in equal proportion to his brilliance and his sensitivity.
  — The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Boston’s provincialism is regressive, offensive, unwelcoming, and harms us as a city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• In her visits to all three American metropolises, she was struck by their peculiar combination of global power and extreme provincialism.
  — Rachel Donadio, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2020
• Ellison detested the hypocrisy, provincialism and crass materialism of Tuskegee.
  — Saidiya Hartman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• Her response to provincialism and ethnic nationalism in Israel was to formulate an embodied synthesis of cultures.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• The consequences of the State Department’s restrictions on border crossings—along with the provincialism of American media and the federal government’s efforts to eliminate foreign propaganda—were far-reaching.
  — Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
• In a country obsessed with TV—where provincialism too often metastasizes into nationalism, and especially at a time when international travel is virtually impossible—the best thing our screens can do is open us up to the world beyond them.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
• Ibsen’s next work, Peer Gynt (1867), a stunning picaresque that lampoons Norwegian peasant life, provincialism, and greed, was also enthusiastically received.
  — Andrew Katzenstein, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• German culture is rife with concepts and artifacts that allow people to articulate their profound distrust of this provincialism, and turn closeness, connectedness, and intuitive understanding into something monstrous and uncanny.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
• Wirecard exploited this mix of interconnectedness and provincialism.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024