parochial

He also points to theology's "parochiality" that ignores the vast scale of the universe, focusing only on planet Earth.

civil for "[s]elfishness and parochiality are inexpungible from

Similarly, the famous reference to the breakup of the performance upon the mention of the word "shift" in Act III is treated as if it were merely an example of the curious parochiality of Irish Catholic sensibilities.

It was part of the intense parochiality of his life that everything was seen through this Cambridge and London prism.

At times, this can lead to a self-regarding suburban parochiality, a conviction that whatever I do is historically significant because I'm doing it.

Is writing in a vernacular language, given the ready availability of a "global" language such as English, in and of itself symptomatic of an intellectual parochiality that significantly reduces the possibility that a work written in that lang uage might attain some degree of quality?