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

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

The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite caf� society had seen in a doge's age.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the sailor is a cosmopolite, as remarked a few pages back, and these boats’ crews could probably have been exchanged, without much detriment to each other’s flag.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael