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showing the influence of many different cultures- She love's New York's cosmopolitan atmosphere.
- They were dust, and a stink, and cosmopolitan chatter, and the girl whose cat had been killed had lived more deeply than they.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks
- the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt
- But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing.Forster, E. M. -- A Room With A View
- Sabin is a cosmopolitan of English proclivities.Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
- In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- He wanted to appear cosmopolitan.Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
- The population of the Gloucester Road was cosmopolitan, always shifting, with people of all ages.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- Bit too cosmopolitan—too European.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- You seek out the traditional, the natural and the cosmopolitan.Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- 'No, I suppose not,' said Colonel Julyan; 'it must be very cosmopolitan.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- Having travelled a great deal in her time she spoke with cosmopolitan largeness of idea.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- He felt daring and idealistic and cosmopolitan.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Fifty years from now, Dallas will be a cosmopolitan metropolis, home to a diverse population and a wide range of multinational corporations.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- "Call it no more the White City on the Lake," wrote Sir Walter Besant, the English historian and novelist, in Cosmopolitan, "it is Dreamland."Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- You make it sound like Savannah is as cosmopolitan as New York or Paris.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- "Cosmopolitan," she said, and Kevin signaled to the bartender.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- Perhaps this was the residue of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Hence, perhaps, my cosmopolitanism.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
cosmopolitan = showing the influence of many different cultures