The provinciality of the place is such that if we have the idea that our people are major actors, that is all we ask.
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Over the last decade, Italy has rapidly grown out of its provinciality into a money center important enough to attract the big international law firms.
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One of the reasons Maron's characters seem to spring to life with immediacy _ and this should be read as praise _ is their provinciality.
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In fact, our buildings have turned it upside down _ into a rage for dreariness and provinciality, an intolerance for the progressive ideas that have regenerated many cityscapes overseas.
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Of his later writings the most important are the admirable satire on German provinciality the most attractive of all his prose writings " Oberon " ( 1780 ).
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"I lost my New York provinciality, " she says, " and was let loose from the strictures of being a middle-class Brooklyn Jew ."
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Such was the total brilliance of his performance that one could be pardoned one's provinciality for thinking that if there is a better point guard on the planet, he must be from another planet.
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Not H . L . Mencken proper, reincarnated in all his old prejudices, but an observer as critical of the provinciality and double standards of the moment as Mencken was of those in his own time.
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In the Cambrian, their global distribution shows no sign of provinciality, suggesting a long-lived planktonic larval life stage ( reflected by their protoconchs ); but by the Ordovician distinct assemblages were becoming evident.
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The self-conception of Roman Catholicism on the other hand was ( and is ) not only the opposite of the Protestants'dry plainness and austerity, but also of their deliberate provinciality of independent national churches.
