provinciality

But we have got fixed in our minds that a more full and harmonious development of their humanity is what the Nonconformists most want, that narrowness, one-sidedness, and incompleteness is what they most suffer from; [xix] in a word, that in what we call provinciality they abound, but in what we may call totality they fall short.

Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855

I have noticed among my Mexican friends a certain provinciality.

Cookbooks 1919

Though he concedes I lack "provinciality," I must say this sure is pretty fuddlin 'stuff to us boondoctors.

Geography Lawler, Justus George 1979

Mr Arnold is right on the average qualities of French prose; whether he is right about the "provinciality" of Jeremy Taylor as compared to Bossuet or not, he is right about "critical freaks," though, by the way -- but it is perhaps unnecessary to finish that sentence.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

For too long, thinking has been dulled by provinciality and pork.

I heart Chris Christie 2010

Angie's pragmatism was a foil for Mara's dynamism, Paige's business sense countered Peter's provinciality.

Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010

What I valued about the old museum is that it successfully (if rather unintentionally) conveyed the peculiar spirit of Nixon in all of his petty provinciality, constitutional criminality, delusional grandiosity, and world-class paranoia.

John Seery: Cover-up of a Cover-up of a Cover-up 2008

In my books I have described in some detail how this basic fact evoked a Checkovian sense of provinciality, and how, by another route, it led to my questioning my authenticity.

Orhan Pamuk - Nobel Lecture 2006

I would complain about Florida—the retrograde politics, the provinciality, the heat, the bugs—and I would live there.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

Which is to say, I'm a ghost of media past, and not only for my content provinciality.

Stephanie Sandberg: Media Present 2008