cosmopolite
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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018
In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014
A Californian by birth, a Frenchman by education, a cosmopolite by diplomatic service, Mr. Gibson was last week the guest of President Hoover at the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1940s, Stravinsky, always a wandering cosmopolite, moved to Hollywood, near Schoenberg's home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hearn, like Gauguin, was a disillusionized cosmopolite, disgusted with the banal artifice, the blatant commercialism, the pedantic and Puritanic hypocrisy of our Occidental civilization.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould
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