How to Use parochialism in a Sentence

parochialism

noun
  • Chalk it up perhaps to the sexism of the time, and the parochialism of her field.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • This was due perhaps to the sexism of the time, and the parochialism of her field.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • What makes Pelosi’s and Schumer’s grip on power so secure is, in fact, their parochialism.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But the parochialism of the headlines bears out one of the book’s central observations.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Let our cultural and ethnic diversity be a source of pride and strength, not parochialism and conflict.
    — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 20 June 2018
  • New York seems a place that is often unwilling to examine its deep and ironic parochialism, and this is one of the results.
    — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Another weakness of the argument that the economy would come roaring back is its parochialism.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 June 2020
  • Far from resisting such royal parochialism, Britain should embrace Charles as the emblem of its new normal age.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The answer lies in a story of self-interest and parochialism that has been kept quiet outside of political circles.
    — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Voters also opted to keep four at-large council seats, thus providing a buffer against excessive parochialism.
    — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Mostly the appeal is a bit of New York island parochialism, endearing and annoying at once.
    — Curbed, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Scottish football is even more parochial than most, and Glasgow’s football environment would compete with anywhere in the world for parochialism.
    — Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • While this is the peak of Scottish parochialism, the pressure of managing Celtic is huge, and will be more than Postecoglou has ever faced before.
    — Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Given the scale of the devastation wrought by the parochialism of union officials like Jordan, the fact that this tactic just isn’t working anymore is cold comfort.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Behind this rhetorical camaraderie, though, old habits of protectionism and parochialism are reappearing.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • On issues such as energy and transportation, geography and parochialism can trump party allegiance.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But this bit of history reflects the stubborn parochialism and official dithering that might have gotten into the city's DNA.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 15 July 2017
  • British parochialism finds echoes on the other side of the Channel, where European leaders, as a group, failed to sell the European way of life to their people.
    — Camille Pecastaing, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2016
  • Urbanites defined themselves as forward-looking sophisticates who sneered at yokels in backwaters; cosmopolitanism faced off against parochialism.
    — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Ibn Battuta's work bleeds with unexamined parochialism, prejudice, and xenophobia against other races and non-Muslims.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2012
  • This caution is produced by a mixture of parochialism (few pupils master a foreign language at school) and superiority (universities at home are excellent).
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Other premiers have experienced similar boosts based on muscular parochialism — even though Australians were movers before the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Another measure of parochialism is the percentage of Americans who have a passport, a number that is drastically lower than in many other countries in the global north.
    — Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Her dramas set in Spain, Troy, and Babylon brought European and world culture into a literature that had been forced into parochialism.
    — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Climate change therefore represents an opportunity for parochialism that can't be completely ignored when assessing the views of senior officials with budgetary skin in the game.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2010
  • To dismiss animism as ignorant, superstitious, or atavistic is to partake in modern parochialism, and this serves the interests of those who, like the tree’s killers, delight in destroying life.
    — Colin Cepuran, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Critics of the measure say eliminating at-large candidates, who are meant to represent all county residents, would reduce the number of council members that residents get to vote for from five to one and lead to parochialism on the dais.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Different nominee, different holdouts—same grandstanding, same parochialism.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Europe’s parochialism and military weakness may make the region a poor partner for the United States in global affairs, but the continent itself is no longer a security problem, which is a huge advance on the past.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2014
  • But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

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