polis

Example Sentences

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More than that, a kind of arts polis, a democratic gathering place for arts and ideas.

From Los Angeles Times

They also started to create what Václav Benda called a “parallel polis” – a world in which one tried to act as if one was already free.

From The Guardian

To put it in terms the ancient Greeks might have used, our “polis” was getting ever larger, the sense of the city that defined “us” against barbarism was becoming more inclusive, capacious and diverse.

From Washington Post

It is rooted in the Greek idea of the “polis” — a community organized around certain rules and customs for life together.

From Washington Post

“Cleisthenes tried to create another notion, the notion of belonging to your polis and not to the aristocratic family of your neighbor. And what he did was very, very interesting.”

From The New Yorker