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  • r  in a parochial manner
    parochially narrow in his outlook

  • Wall Streeters parochially felt that the Administration's encouraging words were calculated to alleviate the stock market's phthisis.
  • There is a mother (Aline MacMahon) who is pleasantly, parochially country-housish; her once-vigorous brother-in-law who is now just terribly old; her overserious, not very human .
  • Similarly, and considerably more parochially, I couldn't care less about the Middlesex News; don't live in that metro-statistical region, and no longer even commute through it.
News & Articles

  • Our View: GOP governor: Kirk Dillard
    Four Republicans are seeking their party’s primary nod for governor. Three are established politicians, one a billionaire businessman. Which one would be best for Illinois — and parochially speaking, this part of central Illinois — and which has the best shot at unseating Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn?
    March 8, 2014 - Peoria Journal Star
Quotes

  • Bob Ryan in USA Today
    Ryan says the media "often overrate the sophistication of the people here. Parochially, they like to think of themselves as enlightened, intellectual fans as a body. We allow them to perpetuate that myth and go out of our way to propagate it. But...
  • Robert Kraft in Boston Globe
    It's complicated, and there are some parochially minded people we may have to convince, but I just think our needs have to be made secondary to this,Kraft said. "Every crisis is an opportunity, if managed properly."

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