NOUN
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the quality or character of life in a city or town
there is an important difference between rusticity and urbanity - polished courtesy; elegance of manner
How To Use urbanity In A Sentence
- Fearey had all the charm and urbanity of the trained diplomat.
- And it is because he followed these instructions with such urbanity, wit, and sophistication, Hale argues, that Milton provided a particular pleasure to his readers and was so successful in refuting his opponent.
- That such cosmopolitan urbanity both exists in Croatia and mingles freely with the country's pastoral charm does not surprise Croatians; what surprises them is how slow the rest of the world has been to catch on.
- Even Paris - long the symbol of centralized urbanity - has experienced a pronounced outward movement.
- As a representational act, landscape architecture has a responsibility to further the discourse on contemporary notions of nature and urbanity.
- We all got to see how professional he was on the air, and sometimes his urbanity could be mistaken for a certain distance, but in fact, he was a very sensitive, warm, decent man who cared passionately for what he did, for what all of us do.
- It is a style that is rooted in tradition and the exotic, yet reflects the dynamism of modern urbanity.
- The Preacher (hews at once his moderationt his good fenfe, and his urbanity, in this City fermon, which, for elegance of compoiition, would not difgrace a dhapei-myal. The Monthly Review
- Go with the to and fro flow through the rhythms of urbanity, through the too-human rhythms of love and loss, through the rhythms of responsible affirmation or negation.
- And it is because he followed these instructions with such urbanity, wit, and sophistication, Hale argues, that Milton provided a particular pleasure to his readers and was so successful in refuting his opponent.