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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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See video … HARVEY LEVIN – Behavior of alleged suspect in door cam does not align with sophistication of ransom letter.—
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FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The firm works in a variety of styles, all of which share a sense of chic sophistication.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 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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As uniform payment for attorneys changes the landscape of family law, training and education are at the forefront of the conversation.—
Raynee Howell,
Oklahoma Watch,
9 Feb. 2026
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The factors that drove it have mostly played out, including Congress raising the Social Security eligibility age by two years, gains in education and life expectancy and fewer employee pensions, said Alicia Munnell, a senior adviser to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.—
Paige Winfield Cunningham The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 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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As a result, their students experienced minimal learning loss and fewer social-emotional setbacks; public school students saw devastating declines in achievement and well-being.—
Paul Vallas,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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The Group nurtures a culture built on empowerment, agility, and continuous learning.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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In North Carolina, Brunswick County Schools will create digital literacy kits built around picture books to spark conversations about online safety and media literacy at every grade level.—
Larry Magid,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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The group offers a book club, financial literacy sessions led by one of its members, Damion Robinson, STEM training and more resources and services, depending on what members need.—
Kamal Morgan
February 5,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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