urbanity
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He’s from the San Fernando Valley, where he grew up with an enthusiasm for classical music and opera, along with yearning for urbanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
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
Dr. Newman returned to the charge, still with a chill urbanity which I cannot help thinking Kingsley mistook for weakness or fear.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
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
These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
