provincialism

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

Yet he was embarrassed all his life by the provincialism of its people.

His work gave license to a provincialism that American art does not need again.

At that time in history it was initially known as "provincialism".

Canada's states are called provinces for a good reason: provincialism.

Prejudice, hatred, and provincialism had nothing to do with it.

This was not due to provincialism or lack of attention to the concrete.

At its core, it is a story about provincialism in the big city, where people can live close together but think so very differently.

"About 98 percent of them are simple folk living in curious provincialism."

As a result, critics say, board decisions have been marked by provincialism.

The provincialism of his native city was odious to him.

Today, there is no retreating into the provincialism and innocence of the past.

In some ways provincialism may even be an asset.

But the projects also point to a strain of provincialism in many local selection committees.

He sees the moribund economic infrastructure as the result, in part, of the city's provincialism.

And it says something about the intellectual provincialism of the left that they bought the dummy.

As with the earlier summation, a certain provincialism is implicit in these lists.

But the Whitney's provincialism is precisely what defines its charm.

I dislike the reverse provincialism of not liking artists in your own city.

Forgive this display of provincialism on a global matter.

Surely, the tennis viewing public has progressed beyond this sort of provincialism.

"The real problem here is your provincialism, not mine.

There is already too much Olympic provincialism disguised as acceptable nationalism going around.

It's not provincialism or purism; they are playing what they want to hear.

Or maybe as a monument to provincialism and protectionism.