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Example sentences for "cosmopolitan"

Lexicographically close words:
cosmographical; cosmography; cosmological; cosmologies; cosmology; cosmopolitanism; cosmopolite; cosmos; coss; cosset
  1. The narrow notions of smaller places are quickly replaced here with metropolitan and cosmopolitan ideas, tastes and habits.

  2. Its delightful climate, its cosmopolitan and metropolitan character, and the endless variety of its attractions and comforts, render it the most delightful home in America.

  3. Its mixed population makes New York a thoroughly cosmopolitan city, yet at the same time it is eminently American.

  4. Let the process work for a few more years; we shall see the common interests of cosmopolitan classes revealing themselves as far more potent factors than the shadowy common interests of the subjects of States.

  5. Whether he reads the Revue des Deux Mondes or Tit-Bits, the modern citizen is becoming at once cosmopolitan and class-centred.

  6. Fine photographs also, of Italian and Dutch pictures, suggested travel, and struck the cultivated cosmopolitan note.

  7. Planté deserves not only the honors conferred upon him by his own country, but those of the world on account of his cosmopolitan character--a rarity among his countrymen.

  8. Unless we had read it here we should never have believed that life on the coast of Maine could be so exciting, so cosmopolitan in its scope, so thrilling in its incidents.

  9. He is very proud of the cosmopolitan spirit which exempts him from the usual French provincialism, and has sought to develop it by travel and study.

  10. The life of criticism, in the larger sense, comes from wide observation and a cultivation of the cosmopolitan spirit.

  11. What we may call the cosmopolitan standpoint of the greater part of his work has made its author less typically a Norwegian than Björnson has always remained.

  12. We are a cosmopolitan country, owing power and greatness to the sons and daughters of many lands.

  13. If it be his first visit, the mere city streets with the royal palms and other magnificent trees, the stores, the cosmopolitan crowds and other strange sights and sounds will be fascinating.

  14. According to Professor Geddes “Our little scholastic colony in the heart of Edinburgh symbolises a movement which while national to the core, is really cosmopolitan in its intellectual reach.

  15. The contrast might be likened to that between rural life with its narrow mental horizon and the varied cosmopolitan life of the city.

  16. My name is Lilienfeld--manager of the Cosmopolitan Theatre.

  17. Although Herr Hey is a disciple of Wagner, he is a cosmopolitan admirer of all that is good in every style of the past and present.

  18. The novelist received most of his schooling in Europe, and has lived much abroad, with the result that he has become half denationalized and has engrafted a cosmopolitan indifference upon his Yankee inheritance.

  19. The modern Greek woman of the higher classes has become so thoroughly cosmopolitan in her culture that she has lost in large measure her distinctive traits.

  20. Being cosmopolitan in its nature, we have now to study woman as being somewhat dissociated from racial type and national manner, and we shall seek to ascertain how she met and was modified by Christian conditions.

  21. The Roman army was a cosmopolitan aggregation, in which Italy was the least represented of the provinces.

  22. If it had not been for Mrs. Nevill Tyson, Stanistreet might have been faintly amused at the idea of this little cockney cosmopolitan persuading himself that his contemptible vices were part of the pageant of the world.

  23. She liked the cosmopolitan Tyson and his reckless speech, and she had her own reasons for wishing him to make a good impression.

  24. San Francisco, the sea-port, was a truly cosmopolitan city.

  25. Upon the basis of that map and of the governments represented on it, and in response to the growing needs of the world as a whole, we had embarked on every kind of international co-operation and cosmopolitan effort.

  26. They had built up the structure of a cosmopolitan society without looking to the foundations.

  27. We are still far off from the World-State and the World-Law which formed the misty ideal of cosmopolitan thinkers.

  28. Most of them were narrow and parochial in their outlook; and the others, the more broad-minded, were not national but cosmopolitan in spirit.

  29. This slight work of a Macedonian freedman, destitute of national significance and representative in its morality only of the spirit of cosmopolitan individualism, owes its vogue to its easy Latinity and popular subject-matter.

  30. He makes the commonplaces of a cosmopolitan philosophy interesting by his abundant illustration drawn from the private and social life of his contemporaries.

  31. If I could only buy some Cosmopolitan Traction!

  32. One day he borrowed five dollars from a man who had made five thousand in Cosmopolitan Traction.

  33. I have had some dull experiences in the English world when embarking, at our solemn British dinners, on cosmopolitan subjects for conversation.

  34. It was a curiously cosmopolitan society, and I, who am never good at remembering the little feuds that are always simmering in this kind of mixed company, must have sometimes made mistakes.

  35. This is the fashionable drive, and to see young Egypt on horseback, and old Jewry in carriages, passing and repassing up and down this cosmopolitan Rotten Row is decidedly trying.

  36. If I had been so cosmopolitan as to make love to her, she could not have called up a blush to save her pretty little soul and body.


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