polis
Example Sentences
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In ancient Sparta, elderly men held all but exclusive power, where only men 60 or older could become members of the polis’s ruling council.
Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.
From Los Angeles Times
They were woven into the fabric of a democratic polis.
From Salon
Shadow puppets fill in the ancient Greek backstory involving a fellow named Thaddeus, who markets water in disposable vases that the polis can’t get enough of.
From Los Angeles Times
More than that, a kind of arts polis, a democratic gathering place for arts and ideas.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
