Sample Sentences forurbane (auto-selected)
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It was a face that held neither Johann's calm composure nor his uncle Max's urbane gravity.† (source)
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"I fully understand," says Simon with what he hopes is an urbane smile.† (source)
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How urbane, how Tajik, of you.† (source)
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He was charming and urbane with visitors, and stopped just short of fawning on them if they happened to be white.† (source)
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And now here he was, rich, urbane, and tremendous, in a green Alpini hat with a red feather, doing paperwork in a bunker at two thousand meters.† (source)
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CIA director Alan Dulles, an urbane and wealthy gentleman in his late sixties, epitomizes that aura of secrecy and covert intrigue.† (source)
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I believed that because I had grown up the way I did, I was just inherently tougher than my more urbane coworkers, and could get away with more.† (source)
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Urbanity† (source)
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He had seen her lift her eyes, and waved his hand urbanely to her, while he blew her a kiss.† (source)
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He hinted a desire to know whether Martin "drank," how prosperous he was, and how he could possibly have come all this way from the urbanities of Winnemac.† (source)
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He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O'Brien's urbane manner and his prize-fighter's physique.† (source)
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He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.† (source)
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"I found I wished to wait for you," she said urbanely.† (source)
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If we give them the week-end to think about it, we shall have them in an urbane Sunday-in-the-country mood.† (source)
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Yousef was the bridge between the urbanity of Salem, of Alan, and these young men, who Alan guessed were being raised more conservatively, far from things like pop music and American guests.† (source)
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Exempted by a long career in the Secretariate from personal contact with the peoples of India, he was able to speak of them urbanely, and to deplore racial prejudice.† (source)
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