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  • The flavorists with whom I spoke were charming, cosmopolitan, and ironic.†   (source)
  • As true children of their time, the Stoics were distinctly "cosmopolitan," in that they were more receptive to contemporary culture than the "barrel philosophers" (the Cynics).†   (source)
  • Perhaps this was the residue of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother.†   (source)
  • I had met students from all over the Transkei, as well as a few from Johannesburg and Basutoland, as Lesotho was then known, some of whom were sophisticated and cosmopolitan in ways that made me feel provincial.†   (source)
  • No bowling, no small talk, just plain, empty time, I walked down to the corner store for Pepsi and Cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • I knew that some Jewish families in my village were moving away, but my family was so cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • "Cosmopolitan," she said, and Kevin signaled to the bartender.†   (source)
  • THE AL-MUFLEHS WERE intent on raising their children with their same cosmopolitan values.†   (source)
  • His brows were set at a cosmopolitan arch that seemed to function as an open challenge to his hustler aspect—if you're dumb enough to believe my scam, that's your problem, shmucko.†   (source)
  • In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.†   (source)
  • Jerene labored with the same single-mindedness to establish the Moshi International School, which catered to a cosmopolitan melting pot of expatriates' children.†   (source)
  • She walks away, leaving me to him, and goes back to her chair and a copy of Cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • He skims through a section about how the Jews arrived, giving up their religious orthodoxy to adopt a sort of liberal cosmopolitanism, giving over, in a way, to the same assimilatory currents that Franklin is being swept forward by.†   (source)
  • You take over the Medusa operation with no complications-in the person of one Dimitri Krupkin, a proven sophisticate from the cosmopolitan world of Paris.†   (source)
  • Fifty years from now, Dallas will be a cosmopolitan metropolis, home to a diverse population and a wide range of multinational corporations.†   (source)
  • , cosmopolitan world traveler and sophisticate, dining in a train car with a perfect (and I do mean perfect!†   (source)
  • I watched through the open door as she pulled a straw bag from the closet and then began filling it with a beach towel and a bottle of Hawaiian Tropic, her radio and an old copy of Cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • One of the mummies leaned slowly over until his nose fell into the fold of Cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • Well, it's far more cosmopolitan, for one thing.†   (source)
  • The city was hers, as, made up and sleeked so with the customary words and images (cosmopolitan, culture, cable cars) it had not been before: she had sale-passage tonight to its far blood's branchings, be they capillaries too small for more than peering into, or vessels mashed together in shameless municipal hickeys, out on the skin for all but tourists to see.†   (source)
  • And as she talks to me, telling me about her late lamented amour, a ghastly Cosmopolitan short story emerges, explaining simultaneously the sexual morality of these 1940s and the psychopathology which permits her to torment me in the way she has been doing.†   (source)
  • The population of the Gloucester Road was cosmopolitan, always shifting, with people of all ages.†   (source)
  • She love's New York's cosmopolitan atmosphere.
  • The nation's capital is not yet the cosmopolitan city it will become.†   (source)
  • You make it sound like Savannah is as cosmopolitan as New York or Paris.†   (source)
  • Adjusting to cosmopolitan Khaplu has proven harder.†   (source)
  • You'd only be a couple of hours from home, and Charleston is far more cosmopolitan, dear."†   (source)
  • To show her that he was more cosmopolitan than she was?†   (source)
  • Raised in grand homes in cosmopolitan cities, educated in the liberal arts, graced with idle hours, and exposed to the finest things, though the Count and the American had been born ten years and four thousand miles apart, they had more in common with each other than they had with the majority of their own countrymen.†   (source)
  • ") One could hardly have called pih Paul's Catholic church anymore, but for all their cosmopolitan outlook, they were still just a small public charity with a substantial medical complex in Haiti, and Farmer seems to have felt they were going to stay that way.†   (source)
  • A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapidation.†   (source)
  • At night the lights and the infilling darkness served to mask the exposition's many flaws—among them, wrote John Ingalls in Cosmopolitan, the "unspeakable debris of innumerable luncheons"—and to create for a few hours the perfect city of Daniel Burnham's dreams.†   (source)
  • I've long since decided that Jane would be equally at home in either poverty or wealth, in a cosmopolitan setting or a rural one.†   (source)
  • So Union Pacific came through to set the railroad lines, which, of course, was supposed to turn this place into a big cosmopolitan area.†   (source)
  • The Cosmopolitan arrived.†   (source)
  • If it all seems a bit theoretical, Vertovec and other social anthropologists point out that there are already many well-functioning examples of large communities that have successfully gone through this process: practically every cosmopolitan metropolis in the world.†   (source)
  • Poor city kids who showed promise; some frail-bodied types with photographic memories and a certain unclean-ness about them; those who were bright but unstable; those who could not adjust; the ones whose adjustment was ordained by the state; a cluster of Latins from some Jesuit center in Venezuela, smart young men with a cosmopolitan style, freezing their weenies off; and a few farmboys from not so far away, shyer than borrowed suits.†   (source)
  • Students in bustling Khaplu, the largest settlement Aslam had ever seen, were cosmopolitan by comparison.†   (source)
  • The busy street, lined with narrow stalls selling soccer balls, cheap Chinese sweaters, and neatly arranged pyramids of foreign treasure like Ovaltine and Tang, seemed overwhelmingly cosmopolitan after the deafening emptiness of the Indus Gorge.†   (source)
  • The city's throbbing cosmopolitan heart was the five-star Marriot Hotel, a fortress of luxury protected from the country's poverty by concrete crash gates and a force of 150 security guards in light-blue uniforms who loitered behind every bush and tree in the hotel's parklike setting, with weapons slung.†   (source)
  • 'No, I suppose not,' said Colonel Julyan; 'it must be very cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • —Not goodbye; all right, who had had so many fathers as to have neither love nor pride to receive or inflict, neither honor nor shame to share or bequeath; to whom one place was the same as another, like to a cat—cosmopolitan New Orleans or bucolic Mississippi: his own inherited and heritable Florentine lamps and gilded toilet seats and tufted mirrors, or a little jerkwater college not ten years old; champagne in the octoroon's boudoir or whiskey on a harsh new table in a monk's cell…†   (source)
  • The white woman Eunice, who occupies the upstairs/lot; the coloured woman a neighbour, for New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town.†   (source)
  • A cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • So it was four of them still who got off the boat in New Orleans, which Henry had never seen before (whose entire cosmopolitan experience, apart from his sojourn at the school, consisted probably of one or two trips to Memphis with his father to buy live stock or slaves) and had no time to look at now—Henry who knew yet did not believe, and Bon whom Mr Compson had called a fatalist but who, according to Shreve and Quentin, did not resist Henry's dictum and design for the reason that he…†   (source)
  • Makes it quite cosmopolitan, doesn't it?†   (source)
  • It is clear that your nationalist mania loathes the world-conquering cosmopolitanism of the Church.†   (source)
  • He felt daring and idealistic and cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I remarked.†   (source)
  • "It's a better vein than the cosmopolitan," said Margaret, getting up.†   (source)
  • The cosmopolitanism of the Stella prevented his racial traits from being noticed.†   (source)
  • Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • "She's a cosmopolitan," said Charles, looking at his watch.†   (source)
  • Remember that I am cosmopolitan, please.†   (source)
  • I cannot stand them, and a German cosmopolitan is the limit.†   (source)
  • "I admit I'm rather down on cosmopolitans.†   (source)
  • Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth.†   (source)
  • 'I am a'—Monsieur Rigaud stood up to say it—'I am a cosmopolitan gentleman.†   (source)
  • Certainly a man can only be cosmopolitan up to a certain point.†   (source)
  • Having travelled a great deal in her time she spoke with cosmopolitan largeness of idea.†   (source)
  • Hence, perhaps, my cosmopolitanism.†   (source)
  • The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.†   (source)
  • What had really smashed them up had been a perfectly common-place affair at Monte Carlo—an affair with a cosmopolitan harpy who passed for the mistress of a Russian Grand Duke.†   (source)
  • It was understood among the anxiously whispering medics that so cosmopolitan was the University of Winnemac becoming that they were expected to wear the symbols of respectability known as "dress-suits."†   (source)
  • But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing.†   (source)
  • She had affiliations of her own in every capital, and a facility for picking them up again after long absences; and the carefully disseminated rumour of the Brys' wealth had at once gathered about them a group of cosmopolitan pleasure-seekers.†   (source)
  • And, in spite of the cosmopolitan views on which he prided himself, he thanked heaven that he was a New Yorker, and about to ally himself with one of his own kind.†   (source)
  • He wanted to appear cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • They sat at a teak and marble table eating Eggs Fooyung, and listened to a brassy automatic piano, and were altogether cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • They were dust, and a stink, and cosmopolitan chatter, and the girl whose cat had been killed had lived more deeply than they.†   (source)
  • Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.†   (source)
  • They knew, as a matter of fact, that Marguerite St. Just cared nothing about money, and still less about a title; moreover, there were at least half a dozen other men in the cosmopolitan world equally well-born, if not so wealthy as Blakeney, who would have been only too happy to give Marguerite St. Just any position she might choose to covet.†   (source)
  • It was strange, since he considered patriotism no more than a prejudice, and, flattering himself on his cosmopolitanism, he had looked upon England as a place of exile.†   (source)
  • She had the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes, and indifferent to money; but she could go without many things which her relations considered indispensable, and Mrs. Lovell Mingott and Mrs. Welland had often been heard to deplore that any one who had enjoyed the cosmopolitan luxuries of Count Olenski's establishments should care so little about "how things were done."†   (source)
  • The gratification of being welcomed in high company, and of making her own ascendency felt there, so that she found herself figuring once more as the "beautiful Miss Bart" in the interesting journal devoted to recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions—all these experiences tended to throw into the extreme background of memory the prosaic and sordid difficulties from which she had escaped.†   (source)
  • He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery.†   (source)
  • I don't know who ought to like that more—Settembrini with his bourgeois world republic, or Naphta with his hierarchical cosmopolitanism.†   (source)
  • And so Naphta was permitted to enter within the walls of the Stella Matutina, whose challenging academic and social atmosphere had long been an object of his own intellectual longings and appetites; what was more, this turn of events had given him a new teacher and patron far more capable than his previous one of appreciating and fostering his character, a master whose value lay in his cool cosmopolitanism, and it was the lad's greatest desire to enter such circles.†   (source)
  • He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled, the earth that he inherits will be grey.†   (source)
  • Bathsheba—who was driven to the fair that day by her odd man Poorgrass—had, like every one else, read or heard the announcement that Mr. Francis, the Great Cosmopolitan Equestrian and Roughrider, would enact the part of Turpin, and she was not yet too old and careworn to be without a little curiosity to see him.†   (source)
  • The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.†   (source)
  • He composed, in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at once.†   (source)
  • I believe I am truly cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • I always wondered on these occasions whether he ever thought of Mrs. Skimpole and the children, and in what point of view they presented themselves to his cosmopolitan mind.†   (source)
  • A stoutly built man stood on the doorstep, with an alien, unfamiliar air about his figure and bearing—an air which might have been called colonial by people of cosmopolitan experience.†   (source)
  • He remembered what a cosmopolitan gentleman Monsieur Lagnier was, and how few weak distinctions he made.†   (source)
  • In discussing his own poetry, he said: "It is an attempt to give the spirit, the body and the man, new words, new potentialities of speech—an American, a cosmopolitan (for the best of America is the best cosmopolitanism) range of self-expression."†   (source)
  • In discussing his own poetry, he said: "It is an attempt to give the spirit, the body and the man, new words, new potentialities of speech—an American, a cosmopolitan (for the best of America is the best cosmopolitanism) range of self-expression."†   (source)
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