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Recent Examples of urbanity
More than once in his reviews of Vargas Llosa’s novels, Updike took note of the author’s handsomeness and urbanity.
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Dwight Garner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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Dwight Garner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.—
Richard Nedjat-Haiem,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There's some sophistication, for sure.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026
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Given that her hair doubles as a calling card, Blake Lively's blonde is bound to exude the sophistication associated with old money.—
Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
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In the same way, a Shakespeare and Company tote bag signals intellectualism, while the New Yorker tote bag communicates cultural sophistication.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Its popularity is improbable by virtue of its unapologetic intellectualism, increasingly alien in a highly anti-intellectual era.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
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Nearly a third of teachers hold a second job that is unrelated to education, including driving Ubers, delivering food, and working as bartenders and waiters.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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Julia Taylor is a former educator and an education advocate with Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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Gene would use the erudition as a weapon on Ebert and vice versa.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Nov. 2025
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2025
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Ferrara’s arrival in New York City and subsequent entry into the movie business is presented as something like a case of recidivism, a dive from suburban gentility into the cauldron of steaming garbage that was Fun City–era Manhattan.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the reinforcement learning system was trained using hundreds of millions of simulated disturbances in a virtual environment.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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In another study published in October 2025, Kucker and her colleagues found the caregivers’ temperaments, and that of their child’s, influences digital media use and thereby language learning.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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The key characteristics identified in the new accountability system include academic mastery, career and postsecondary readiness, communication and collaboration, work ethic, and civic, financial and digital literacy.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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And Montano wants to help advocate for policies that will raise child literacy rates within the district.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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