Parochial
adjective
Related to a church parish (an area served by one church).
She was a member of the local parochial church.
Often appears as...
- parochial church
- parochial parish
adjective
Having a limited or narrow view.
His parochial attitudes were not appreciated in the diverse community.
Often appears as...
- parochial attitudes
- parochial mindset
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Related to a church parish (an area served by one church).
She was a member of the local parochial church.
Often appears as...
- parochial church
- parochial parish
adjective
Having a limited or narrow view.
His parochial attitudes were not appreciated in the diverse community.
Often appears as...
- parochial attitudes
- parochial mindset
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Church Association
Use 'parochial' to connect something to a local church community, emphasizing a religious aspect.
The parochial council met weekly.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Scope
'Parochial' refers to local church matters and should not be mistaken for broader religious contexts.
He was involved in organizing parochial events.
Pro Tip 3/3Community-Focused
'Parochial' often implies activities or services focused on serving the local parish community.
Parochial initiatives were popular among residents.
Pro Tip 1/3Church Association
Use 'parochial' to connect something to a local church community, emphasizing a religious aspect.
The parochial council met weekly.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Scope
'Parochial' refers to local church matters and should not be mistaken for broader religious contexts.
He was involved in organizing parochial events.
Pro Tip 3/3Community-Focused
'Parochial' often implies activities or services focused on serving the local parish community.
Parochial initiatives were popular among residents.
Pro Tip 1/3Church Association
Use 'parochial' to connect something to a local church community, emphasizing a religious aspect.
The parochial council met weekly.
Pro Tip 2/3Local Scope
'Parochial' refers to local church matters and should not be mistaken for broader religious contexts.
He was involved in organizing parochial events.
Pro Tip 3/3Community-Focused
'Parochial' often implies activities or services focused on serving the local parish community.
Parochial initiatives were popular among residents.
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The radical possibilities...
I'm saying really radically different that can still sell for produce and potentially create living organisms my personal opinion is that if we found new life we might not even recognize it so this obsession with the search for Goldilocks planets and in exactly the right place with water and whatever that that's a very parochial assumption
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Anil Gupta: India's...
The point is, none of us should be parochial, none of us should be so nationalistic to believe that all good ideas will come only from our country. No, we have to have the humility to learn from knowledge of economically poor people, wherever they are. And look at this whole range of cycle-based
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David Deutsch: Chemical...
Out in intergalactic space, those three prerequisites for the open-ended creation of knowledge are at their lowest possible supply -- as I said, it's empty, it's cold and it's dark out there. Or is it? Now actually, that's just another parochial misconception.
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Can a divided America...
between the people who want to stop at nation, the people who are more parochial -- and I don't mean that in a bad way -- people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation.
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3 ways to practice...
you know, has divided a nation even more so. And one critic of the breakup called those who favor it -- I just love this phrase -- "the frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain." The frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain.
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The biggest risks facing...
We're still locked in a 17th-century paradigm of parochial national sovereignty. And yet, in the 1600's, when nation-states were really coming into their own, less than one percent of the world's population resided in a city.
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Where foreign laws and...
have our own standards of what we think make for a just legal system within our own borders we should not take a parochial or chauvinistic view of those standards no country has a monopoly on
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Barry Schwartz: Using...
Michael's a young guy. He had a pretty low-wage job. He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school. Then he lost his job. He panicked
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Understanding the rise...
as probably the most cosmopolitan of all cultures. But it's not. In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world
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Jason Pontin: Can...
They've expanded and enriched our lives. But they don't solve humanity's big problems. What happened? So there is a parochial explanation in Silicon Valley,
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The radical possibilities...
I'm saying really radically different that can still sell for produce and potentially create living organisms my personal opinion is that if we found new life we might not even recognize it so this obsession with the search for Goldilocks planets and in exactly the right place with water and whatever that that's a very parochial assumption
Video examples
Anil Gupta: India's...
The point is, none of us should be parochial, none of us should be so nationalistic to believe that all good ideas will come only from our country. No, we have to have the humility to learn from knowledge of economically poor people, wherever they are. And look at this whole range of cycle-based
Video examples
David Deutsch: Chemical...
Out in intergalactic space, those three prerequisites for the open-ended creation of knowledge are at their lowest possible supply -- as I said, it's empty, it's cold and it's dark out there. Or is it? Now actually, that's just another parochial misconception.
Video examples
Can a divided America...
between the people who want to stop at nation, the people who are more parochial -- and I don't mean that in a bad way -- people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation.
Video examples
3 ways to practice...
you know, has divided a nation even more so. And one critic of the breakup called those who favor it -- I just love this phrase -- "the frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain." The frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain.
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The biggest risks facing...
We're still locked in a 17th-century paradigm of parochial national sovereignty. And yet, in the 1600's, when nation-states were really coming into their own, less than one percent of the world's population resided in a city.
Video examples
Where foreign laws and...
have our own standards of what we think make for a just legal system within our own borders we should not take a parochial or chauvinistic view of those standards no country has a monopoly on
Video examples
Barry Schwartz: Using...
Michael's a young guy. He had a pretty low-wage job. He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school. Then he lost his job. He panicked
Video examples
Understanding the rise...
as probably the most cosmopolitan of all cultures. But it's not. In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world
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Jason Pontin: Can...
They've expanded and enriched our lives. But they don't solve humanity's big problems. What happened? So there is a parochial explanation in Silicon Valley,
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Steve Kornacki
Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily parochial place, where one of the biggest annual sporting events involves college hockey players competing for a beanpot and where generations of baseball fans actively believed they were victims of a curse.
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Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
Restoring and maintaining a great nation's fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli Historian
We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.
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Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.
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William T. Vollmann
American Novelist
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
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Gladys Berejiklian
Australian Politician
The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.
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Jennifer Haigh
American Novelist
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
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Rick Perry
American Politician
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
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George A. Moore
Irish Novelist
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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Steve Kornacki
Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily parochial place, where one of the biggest annual sporting events involves college hockey players competing for a beanpot and where generations of baseball fans actively believed they were victims of a curse.
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Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
Restoring and maintaining a great nation's fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.
Quote examples
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli Historian
We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.
Quote examples
Yemi Osinbajo
Nigerian Politician
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.
Quote examples
William T. Vollmann
American Novelist
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
Quote examples
Gladys Berejiklian
Australian Politician
The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.
Quote examples
Jennifer Haigh
American Novelist
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
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Rick Perry
American Politician
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
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George A. Moore
Irish Novelist
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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