| One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils. |
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| Those who wrote in German needed to free themselves from charges of provinciality and from foreign dominance. |
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| Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality. |
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| Yet, even for this purpose, the effects of provinciality can limit their geographic ranges and thus their usefulness. |
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| It carries its intelligence lightly, is never overbearing or flashy, and is devoid of obfuscation, provinciality and jargon. |
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| Mainly provinciality is understood as mental characteristic meaning retardation of every sort and kind. |
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| St. Petersburg ceased to be the capital and entered a twilight period of forced isolation and provinciality that lasted decades. |
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| In this critical effort, thought Arnold, England lagged behind France and Germany, and the English accordingly remained in a backwater of provinciality and complacency. |
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| Painting in the Dutch and English colonies of North America reflected generally the portrait styles of the mother countries, though with a note of provinciality. |
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| New York writer A. J. Liebling belittled its provinciality in a stinging series of magazine articles, collected in the 1952 book Chicago: The Second City. |
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| The Calender was well received in its day, and it is still a revelation of what could be done poetically in English after a long period of much mediocrity and provinciality. |
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