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How to use urbanity in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word urbanity? Here are some examples.

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What about Embassy Court Brighton, a building whose horizontal emphasis and overweening bulk wrecks the stuccoed urbanity of the Hove seafront?
The notion seems to be that the mere look, the urbanity, the smirking of blue staters appalls the skittish people of the heartland.
It is a style that is rooted in tradition and the exotic, yet reflects the dynamism of modern urbanity.
The room is sleek, but has a relaxed feel when it's full of customers, and this urbanity comes through in the food.
It was only with a man of such urbanity and diplomacy that Cukor could fully relax beside a tape recorder.
Subsequently, under a variety of international influences, his work gained in urbanity what it lost in force and originality.
For all his urbanity and good manners, it wasn't a particularly impressive performance.
The graphic city sections take you on a more detailed tour through shop signs, manhole covers and the other unfamiliar objects of urbanity.
From Stockholm to Milan, arcades, winter gardens, train sheds and other innovative forms of public building added new dimensions to urbanity.
As a representational act, landscape architecture has a responsibility to further the discourse on contemporary notions of nature and urbanity.
If his book is lacking in urbanity, that is because it is what should properly be called a tract.
Here the definition of urbanity pertains to the perceiving subjects and their encounters with one or another quality of the urban body.
The role of space among buildings, the space in between, assumes crucial importance for the characteristic of urbanity.
An urban sampling faced with a digital zoo where man is scanned between animality and urbanity.
It tells of his talents, knowledge, contacts, wit and urbanity, but it does not convince.
Most contemporary critics thought Gruen had succeeded in bringing urbanity to the suburbs.
Firstly, because he was a student of Louis Kahn, who wished more than anyone to give architecture an urbanity made up of sociability and poetry.
It is now commonplace to say that the European continent is an urban world and that urbanity may be a unique expression of its civilisation.
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.
Henen draws on her awareness of middle class urbanity in her work.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The hawklike appearance of the man was softened in debate by the urbanity of his manner and the modulations of his voice.
Mr Dorrit welcomed the visitor with the highest urbanity, and most courtly manners.
At once I understood the urbanity and the gentlemanliness that must have existed in the patriarchal times.
The urbanity was not exactly cold enough for George's notions.
The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.
Their advances were received with great urbanity, but in most instances with that unembarrassed manner that is fatal to hope.
Nioche loved conversation, and even in his decay his urbanity had not grown rusty.
It was muffled in sociability and urbanity, as an old dowager in her laces and strings of pearls.
Despite his visitor's urbanity, he was still a little nervous.
In other respects, the new family were noted for kindliness and urbanity.
We manage to correct a stranger with urbanity and good humour.
His tone had lost a little of its urbanity when he answered.
There was no trace of humour or urbanity now in Captain Blood.
The last thing he heard, just before the end of the summer session, was that Griffiths, urbanity had given way at length under the exasperation of the constant persecution.
Urbanity he practised, not with jest and witticism, but by the courtesy of his demeanour.
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