urbanity
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The brand is a "superb combination of urbanity, hedonism and undeniable luxury," L'Oreal chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2023
I thought of the words "the urbanity of evil."
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
It offered an accessible urbanity, a kind of cosmopolitanism for the common folk.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
“We need spaces in which we can perform our urbanity unashamedly and feel recognized and legitimized by it,” Nyairo said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
Their intercourse with each other is marked with singular urbanity; they are modest, friendly, obliging, and forbearing.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
We urbanities are born gritty, born resourceful and imaginative, born with a strategic mindset and born competitive, with a drive to succeed.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2022
Novelist Naomi Alderman chats with inventor Saul Griffith, composer Brian Eno exchanges urbanities with forensic architect Eyal Weizman.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2020
So several times a year they surround a common board, listen to the lighter observations of ambassadors and dignitaries, rejoicing in the amenities and urbanities of Anglo-American relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In no modern correspondence do we see a higher perfection in the polished courtesies and urbanities of social life, with the alloy of vanity, irony, and discontent.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by Lord, John