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The Parasol Protectorate series totally fits the idea of urbane fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Urbane Fantasy Anyone?] Reference
The so called urbane Bangalorian indulges in spitting as much as the villager who is visiting a city for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Danger of biking around in Bangalore] Reference
I guess campus/"urbane" prissy socialism is alive and well. From Wordnik.com. [The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today.] Reference
So far, I find, I have chiefly dealt with the Art of Putting Things as practised by the "urbane" or town-bred classes. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
These people were intelligent, urbane, articulate. From Wordnik.com. [Prewar Berlin Inspires Crime Novelist's Dark Side] Reference
The urbane Calley, 66, is a blast from Hollywood's past. From Wordnik.com. [A New Leading Man For Sony Pictures] Reference
Wiley, smiling and urbane, standing just within the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Don is not at all the smooth, urbane character we're used to. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Makes the All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode] Reference
Today's urbane cutlery is made of industrial-strength ceramics. From Wordnik.com. [HOME: SHARP AS A... TILE?] Reference
Let's turn our plaudits from urbane beings to workers of the land. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyme and Reason Volume Two] Reference
Where Motown was sleekly urbane, Stax was explosive and unpolished. From Wordnik.com. [Papa's Got A Brand-Old Bag] Reference
Dawkins, an urbane Oxfordian, would regard that as appalling manners. From Wordnik.com. [The New Naysayers] Reference
Once the ANC envoy, the urbane Mbeki could become Mandela's successor. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Mandela Builds His Dream Team] Reference
Upscale, but generally ignored, and nowhere near as chic or happening as its urbane neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [Reckless in the O.C.] Reference
The older generation, urbane and relatively well educated, had little love for the extremists. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Chic Comes to London] Reference
Badcock had served in the army in India and reports tell of his urbane, immaculately groomed manner. From Wordnik.com. [Zulqarnain Haider and Pakistan benefit from decision review system] Reference
Long, hot days make idle contemplation almost obligatory, bringing out the urbane dilettante in us all. From Wordnik.com. [Substance, Style And Spirit] Reference
The wilder the storm of interruption rages round JOSEPH, the more urbane he becomes, and the more dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893] Reference
McCarthy was fat, sweaty and uncomfortable with the medium; Murrow was thin, urbane and totally at home on TV. From Wordnik.com. [Television's False Intimacy] Reference
Affable and urbane, he won a closely-contested governor's race by campaigning as "the compassionate conservative.". From Wordnik.com. [A Nasty Turn On Immigrants] Reference
Epicurus of Samos, 342-270 B.C. Lived at Athens in his "gardens," an urbane and kindly, if somewhat useless, life. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
That may not be entirely true, at least not in urbane Moscow, where protesters gathered to support NTV's independence. From Wordnik.com. [Sticking To The Party Line] Reference
Amid the fine supporting cast of loonies and lock-up staff, British actor Genn's Dr. Kik is an urbane, soothing presence. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud] Reference
People who've known the Kristols, father and son, see similarities between them, notably the same witty, urbane detachment. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Neocons] Reference
He was near despair when an urbane Polish mathematician at Los Alamos, Stanislaw Ulam, showed him the way to a breakthrough. From Wordnik.com. [The Atomic Bomb] Reference
Sophisticated people may make exceptions for the literary puns of Joyce or Nabokov or the urbane wordplay of '30s show tunes. From Wordnik.com. [Puns In Country Music Songs Done Right] Reference
The urbane æstheticism that regulates pleasure also limits it; and true refinement ever modifies the indulgence it pervades. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
But weaving it all together to create a dense and urbane neigh-borhood requires more than dramatic buildings by famous architects. From Wordnik.com. [Deep in the Art of Texas] Reference
Most people think of jazz as this very cosmopolitan, urbane, inner-city kind of thing that took place in the northeast and way out west. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Up Thelonious Monk's Southern Roots] Reference
The telegenic, urbane and England-born young pol — he's 44 — has long been expected to rise to the top of Thailand's political heap. From Wordnik.com. [Limping Along] Reference
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