provincialism

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for provincialism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provincialism
Noun
  • 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.
    Made by History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
    Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This national narrative sat in tension with a growing regionalism, seen in the rise of local historians and small museums.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Its insularity has shielded it from the reckless overdevelopment that has scarred much of the nearby Costa Blanca.
    Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That insularity — reinforced by government policy — could slow the spread of its cultural exports abroad.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Music unites the interconnecting stories in this saga and expands its passions, with a sumptuous score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that taps into a wide range of American styles, idioms and amalgams, even as the second act turns more dissonant.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
    News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Over the last three decades, Rick Owens has built a universe with its own fashion vernacular—a world where high fashion meets dystopia and rebellion is the ultimate form of self-expression.
    Irina Grechko, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In liberal parlance, that’s a Do Pass Go and Do Collect Millions card.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In auto industry parlance, the loans were underwater.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Provincialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provincialism. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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