urbanity

Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

In challenging conventional views of urbanity, the Sex Pistols demonstrate their willingness to break away from established norms and venture into uncharted territory, both musically and ideologically.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024

The brand is a "superb combination of urbanity, hedonism and undeniable luxury," L'Oreal chief executive Nicolas Hieronimus said.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2023

It offered an accessible urbanity, a kind of cosmopolitanism for the common folk.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

"The gentleman will permit me to refer him to the Pension Office," returned General Granger, with the most smiling urbanity; "he will there find the more satisfactory answer to his queries."

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

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

These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The deal is smothered in chivalrous urbanities and sentimental verbiage.

From Women As Sex Vendors or, Why Women Are Conservative (Being a View of the Economic Status of Woman) by R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) Tobias