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
Our cultural anti-heroes are "poets unhoused and wanderers across language," contends Steiner, who is a cosmopolite himself, born in Paris of Austrian parents and educated in the United States as well as England.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Despite the cosmopolite profligacy, he described his architecture as the embodiment of some vague Whitmanesque mission, earthy and populist and "organic."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr Francis Grierson, cosmopolite and subtile critic of the arts, is one of those sudden new acquaintances that assume immediate importance in one’s world of thought....
From Malplaquet by Belloc, Hilaire