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cosmopolite

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NOUN
  1. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

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  • We categorize communication channels as (1) interpersonal versus mass media and (2) localite versus cosmopolite. Diffusion of Innovations
  • Cosmopolitanism is nonsense; the cosmopolite is a cipher, worse than a cipher; outside of nationality there is neither art, nor truth, nor life; there is nothing. The Message
  • Will we see you in your role as a pro-Atlantic lobbyist and cosmopolite after the expiry of your term as director general?
  • My cosmopolite was named E. Rushmore Coglan, and he will be heard from next summer at Coney Island. He is to establish a new "attraction" there, he informed me, offering kingly diversion.
  • Johnson's cosmopolites respond to changing dominant discourses of nation and citizenship.
  • Hawthorne posed the problem of being an artist in America most sharply because he was not a "cosmopolite" man of letters but intensely and exclusively a writer of fiction, which was what James felt he must make of himself. 'The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1'
  • It is a perfect cosmopolite in essence and in action; it has nothing local or limitary in its nature; it participates the character of the soul from which it emanated. Uncollected Prose
  • That the Metropolitan Museum accessioned no works by Sargent between 1941 and 1949 reflected the distractions of World War II and the fact that interest in late nineteenth-century cosmopolites like Sargent was at its nadir.
  • Reasoning similar to that just presented leads to Generalization 5-14: Cosmopolite channels are relatively more important than localite channels for earlier adopters than for later adopters. Diffusion of Innovations
  • He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
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