The synergy within provincial life can be seen in various ways.

His poetry has also been described as unsentimental in its depiction of provincial life and society.

He skulks out of Warsaw on a night train, returning to the provincial life.

But, even then, Chagall dished up the facts of provincial life in a way that is still valid today.

He grumbled incessantly about the 'disgusting' provincial life we had to lead on the island.

Herbert, deciding that he had had enough of provincial life, set up in partnership again with brother James.

For Monsieur, already puffed up with the great event which had taken place in his provincial life, he ate nothing whatever.

He divines the mysteries of provincial life; sometimes he makes them.

History had not caught up with this remote provincial life.

It thus provides an all-too-rare glimpse of provincial life in prewar Japan.