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
He can play by turns the extravagant cosmopolite who rides horses with President Reagan, and the devout Muslim who is officially known as Commander of the Faithful.
From Time Magazine Archive
The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism."
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Herodotus, he was cosmopolite enough not to be narrowly patriotic.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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