Provincial chum tackles a choir out of tune

Usage examples of parochial.

The great transnational corporations that straddle national boundaries and link the global system are themselves internally much more diverse and fluid culturally than the parochial modern corporations of previous years.

Bernard Shaw has found time to do no end of campaigning and even the parochial politics of a vestryman has not seemed too insignificant for his Fabian enthusiasm.

A volley of shots rang out from both Clanwilliam House and the Parochial Hall.

His elementary education was conducted at the schools of his native town, and afterwards at the manse of Mearns, a rural parish in Renfrewshire, under the superintendence of Dr Maclatchie, the parochial clergyman.

If you go from Tremadoc to Criccaeth, you pass by the parochial church of Ynysynhanarn, situated in a boggy valley running from the mountains, which shoulder up to the Rivals, down to Cardigan Bay.

Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, feverscourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.

Instead, there had been a vexing multiplicity of local particularisms, parochial grievances and individual banditries.

Benacerraf - parochial to the last - felt a stab of regret she wasn't going to get to see more of the continental US.

He told us, that, since he came to be minister of the parish where he now is, the belief of witchcraft, or charms, was very common, insomuch that he had many prosecutions before his session (the parochial ecclesiastical court) against women, for having by these means carried off the milk from people's cows.

The Mastercraftsman was responsible for the output of his halls and the distribution, fair and unprejudiced, of all craft products on a planetary rather than parochial basis.

The Oldtimers are not only incurably parochial, but worse, adamantly inflexible.

Some contained titillation and scandal mongering, but to Bellis they were depressingly parochial.

Actually, focusing on organic matter and liquid water is not nearly so parochial and chauvinistic as it might seem.

Most of the graves went back to the last century, their indecipherable headstones having either been laid flat or fallen over and left that way because in the days when Stainforth Parochial Church Council was able to afford a full-time verger it made mowing easier.

She wondered briefly how the split of support went—spacers against planetaries or parochials against galactics.