Sentences with phrase «provincial town»

In the small provincial town of Villeneuve, Disney's independent Belle wants more out of life than the village can offer.

When the moment of crisis finally came earlier this year, with massive civilian protests first in provincial towns and then, spectacularly, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, splits emerged among the political elite over how to react and the army command waivered.

When Saâdane Afif was awarded the prestigious Günther - Peill Prize in 2012, he ended up in Düren, a small provincial town in North Rhine - Westphalia.

Visitors to Hue are often taken aback to discover that the sleepy provincial town of Hue was once...

When Belle sings about the poor provincial town where she lives with her inventor father (a sweetly absent - minded Kevin Kline), you might note how slack the tempo feels, how much dead air seems to have been piled around the individual stanzas so as to accommodate exaggerated bits of business and slapstick.

The small town of Castres is a classical French provincial town: a magnificent waterside, an imposing Baroque cathedral and a myriad of pleasant, shady squares.

Over the past half century, the nation's capital, Ankara, has transformed from a sleepy provincial town into a cosmopolitan city, while Istanbul, long a sophisticated tourist mecca and industrial center, has grown into a megacity of 20 million situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

He grew up in various provincial towns and attended a number of schools, graduating from Trinity College, in Dublin, with a degree in history.

During Saleema's childhood twenty years later the village was gradually being absorbed into the slums cast off by an adjacent provincial town called Kotla Sardar.

Chiang Rai forgoes the narrow lanes and spectacular ancient temples that characterise its larger southern neighbour and presents itself as a slightly more touristy than usual but largely nondescript busy provincial town.

Breznice, Northwest of Kucer, also is a nice provincial town.

Trat is a sleepy provincial town which many people just pass through on their way elsewhere.

This picturesque provincial town centre stretches out along the west bank of the Krabi estuary.

Located just 300m from central Battambang, the Sanctuary Villa is like a dream oasis in this rural provincial town.

Battambang is known as the rice bowl of Cambodia but for visitors this lovely provincial town has many more things to offer.

Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel is a luxury residence set in the centre of Luang Prabang in northern Laos.This charming provincial town hosts a great number of temples and historic monuments and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995.

The Shangluo facility, opened in May, is the first of several «supercenters» that will be located in apartment complexes being built in provincial towns to encourage rural residents to move off their isolated plots.

I live in a small provincial town and our supermarket doesn't have commercial buffalo sauce or Panko.

Belle is the only daughter of Maurice (Kevin Kline), an ineffectual inventor, and lives in a dull, French provincial town.

Donna Leon characterizes Venice as «a sleepy provincial town.»

The kind of religion against which they rebel, however, represents a caricature of Christianity that is common enough — whether it be Roman Catholic or Protestant — in the provincial towns of any country.

The cult spread from the royal center in Samaria to the provincial towns.

Daring to start a new life, he breaks parole and creates a new identity for himself, within years becoming a successful factory owner and mayor of a provincial town.

I think I could identify myself with Belle, she was a dreamer and she dreamed of something beyond the provincial town she grew up in.

Once upon a time... there was a beautiful but out of place young woman named Belle, who lived in a small, provincial town.

Chrysler renamed its venerable minivan — ditching the provincial Town & Country name in favor of Pacifica, a name last used by Chrysler for a family crossover that didn't sell very well and wasn't well regarded.

At present Moscow and St. Petersburg account for some 70 % of all the titles produced in Russia and about 90 % of total sales, while the share of provincial towns is very small.

A provincial town, a harvest festival, pagan rites, and rows and rows of corn... it reminds me of where I grew up.

When the twelve - year - old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves from Seoul to a small provincial town and enrolls in the local school, he's confident that his big - city sophistication will establish him as a natural leader.

The provincial town of Rye, East Sussex, in the days just before and after the Great War is so vividly drawn it fairly vibrates.

Carhar's father, a NATO officer at the time, moved his family, including his mother and four siblings to the provincial town of Fontainebleau, France, home of the beautiful Château of Fontainebleau.

There's plenty to do in the cities of Tuscany — from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the innumerable museums and cathedrals of Florence — but in the countryside, you can finally live out your Under the Tuscan Sun fantasy in a provincial town with a good bottle of wine.

Sail to the provincial town of Asyut.

Day 8 Sail to the provincial town of Asyut.

Almost all Spain's provincial towns and cities have retained their medieval city centres, with narrow winding alleys keeping cars at bay, perfect for an atmospheric evening stroll and a plate or two of tapas at a local bar.

It is also a mix of cultures, with the heritage of the French immigrants, African - Americans settlers from the 19th century United States, and modern - day European immigration, all giving the provincial towns a cosmopolitan feel.

The village of Aspalathus, and, long afterward, the provincial town of Spalatro had grown out of its ruins.

«Fountain» was rejected, but Alfred Stieglitz photographed it for this short - lived Dada magazine, which mixed nonsense verse with editorials that asked, «Where Art is concerned is New York satisfied to be like a provincial town?»

Her parents ran a tapestry repair business out of their large home in the provincial town of Choisy, south of Paris

Rembrandt, unlike Vermeer who made extraordinary universes out of small rooms in the provincial town of Delft, needed to leave his native Leiden for Amsterdam in order to drape his sitters in exotic costumes and enjoy the worldly benefits that his remarkable talent afforded him.

The provincial town of Galesburg serves as a projection surface for personal memories and at the same time embeds Prina's biography in a wider historical and cultural context.

Moreover, it was a soft power campaign advertising the glory of capitalist Marshall - plan reconstruction in a provincial town only a stone's throw away from the Iron Curtain.