urbanity
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It’s an off-brand, pioneer town that has so far resisted any whiff of genteel urbanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 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
Yes, I'm sure," said the vicar's wife, with patronising urbanity; "so very pleased to make your acquaintance—at last, don't you know.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
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 memory of Cromwell is dear to good men in spite of his defects; while that of Louis, in spite of his graces and urbanities, is a watchword for all that is repulsive in despotism.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by John Lord
