urbanity

How To Use urbanity In A Sentence

• The Standard's stylish urbanity is a goof on the visions of long-dead tycoons, who once powwowed next door at the elite California Club and who built this part of town -- which, with its formal brand of sleek corporate modernism, is irrelevant to the culture of pink stucco and palm trees that we think of when we think of Los Angeles. L.A. Rising
• The architects' aim is to create vertical urbanity, with public and private spaces, conference rooms, a cafeteria, and library and internal gardens to clean and oxygenate the air.
• Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one! Kincaid's Battery
• There's another quote about him that I like that says he was known for ‘his wit and for the urbanity of his manners and his keen relish of social enjoyments’.
• Although Siaguru's urbanity and often sarcastic wit will make the book engaging reading for Europeans with a concern for the fate of the nation, I suspect it will be less attractive for all but a handful of Melanesian readers.
• The prominent Queen's Counsel, in welcoming Justice Kirby to the bench, commented on the new judge's "urbanity". Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
• The graphic city sections take you on a more detailed tour through shop signs, manhole covers and the other unfamiliar objects of urbanity.
• Mr. Longfellow met us at the door, with that urbanity which is so agreeable a feature in his character, and, on being shown into a very handsome library, we were introduced to Mr.. Longfellow, a lady of dignified appearance and graceful manner. The Englishwoman in America
• It was only with a man of such urbanity and diplomacy that Cukor could fully relax beside a tape recorder.
• there is an important difference between rusticity and urbanity