| 单词 | urbane |
| 例句 | He hated the chaplain venomously for being a chaplain and making a coarse blunder out of an observation that in any other circumstances, he knew, would have been considered witty and urbane. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was charming and urbane with visitors, and stopped just short of fawning on them if they happened to be white. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Their sharp eyes carefully took in the more polished, urbane stance of Carlisle, who, flanked by Emmett and Jasper, stepped guardedly forward to meet them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He paused, surveying us with the kind of wide- eyed surmise Mr. Carhart always used at this point, and then added in Mr. Carhart’s urbane murmur, “Let us pray.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His activism surprised Ifemelu—he seemed a little too urbane, a little too cool, to be in the students' union government—but also impressed her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prizefighter’s physique. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Do you know what I like about military barbers? You guys are such high class people. I mean it. Sincerely, I do. The absolute cream of military personnel. Handsome, aristocratic, urbane, without being affected.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a silk-haired senior, with his cope and crosier, alb and ring —urbane, ecclesiastical, knowing the spiritual power. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his songs, he is funny, urbane, with a sweetness that doesn’t cloy. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z I mean, how come the pigs were meant to be so smart, so civilized and urbane? ArtsBeat Blog: The Perilous Art of Giving Books 2012-01-04T21:59:46Z Grinnell is both progressive bastion and gun town, a place urbane and rural. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “In the 30 years since we first shot in Dallas, it has grown to become a hugely urbane, metropolitan city,” says Patrick. An Insider's Guide to J.R.'s Dallas 2012-06-07T16:20:03.553Z He was an urbane presence, a man who made being a literary phenom look easy. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z Military Academy at West Point, where the reading lists for her courses veer from urbane essays by Zadie Smith to the "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Though the public rooms on the ground floor are undeniably urbane, the children’s areas and the garage’s second-floor guest accommodations showcase the decorator’s hallmark sense of whimsy. Thom Filicia Crafts a Family-Friendly Retreat in the Adirondaks 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Ephron’s best scripts offered the comfort of an old-fashioned love story in what felt like a fizzy, urbane contemporary setting. Nora Ephron’s romantic-comedy revolution 2012-06-27T16:35:00Z The portrait signaled a high, urbane point in the artist’s career, after which his figurative work tended to soften up, and his interests changed. Art Review: Celebrating a Painter’s 150th Anniversary 2012-05-24T18:41:19Z In it, a black man and woman dressed in matching, sumptuous furs pose in front of a car parked in front of a brownstone, a picture of urbane elegance. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z However, Luther — obdurate and reckless, bilious and doctrinaire — eventually swamps the book, as he eventually swamped the urbane and ironic man of letters. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Much of the country had seen L.A. as an artistically barren desert compared with more urbane San Francisco and New York, and in 1964 the new Music Center crystallized the city's new identity. Dorothy Buffum Chandler was the driving force behind the Music Center 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z He drolly describes it as “the comic high point of Goethe’s original play, and one of the most delightfully urbane moments in all of German literature.” Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z For someone who was so urbane – one is beginning to feel that his works on history are now the interludes between his letters – it is perhaps surprising how stirring Berlin's historical writings can be. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-23T11:27:37Z They bring a touch of the wild to the urbane dining room of her Upper East Side apartment, with its flank of bookshelves. Emily Braun’s Birds Guide Guests to Their Perches 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z He’s a film producer and a highly urbane assimilated Jew who left his native Germany in 1933 because, as he claims, “he was no longer allowed to play field hockey at his sports club.” ‘The Double Life of Liliane’ review: A novel that blends fact and fiction 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z As much as I enjoy Mason's urbane, charmingly creepy portrayal, for me it lacks the sweaty self-delusion and insane inner turmoil that makes the novel such a disturbing joy to read. Something Amis: why I already feel shortchanged by the BBC's Money 2010-05-20T12:31:00Z The Wharf, on the other hand, “is very urbane.” The latest trick to making new developments cool: Just add rock-and-roll 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Iquitos seemed more urbane at that moment than it might have fresh off a plane from New York. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z The evening featured several excerpts from his urbane, finely wrought dances. The Week Ahead: Dec. 30 — Jan. 5 2012-12-30T08:10:05Z Our urbane standing lamp in the living room now had a silent doppelganger, considerably more rustic, standing beside it, like an understudy or a second at a duel. Her Party 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Beneath its urbane surface all Mr Hough’s music is, in one way or another, a crusade. He’s the piano man 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Peruse the lounge’s art, food and design books, or schmooze with the crowd of urbane expats, artists and intellectuals. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Panama City, Panama 2011-04-21T20:00:00Z Through the urbane, meticulous Armond, we see the invisible gymnastics that go into this job. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z An urbane and nonbelieving Jew, like Freud, Dr. Gay found in him not only a compelling life and body of work, but an approach to history. Peter Gay, historian who wrote about Freud and the Enlightenment, dies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Directed toward his own class — an urbane, well-educated, culturally cosmopolitan gentry — his lyrics define what might be called the Manhattan sensibility: humanist, proudly intellectual, psychologically sophisticated, hyper-articulate, liberal, Jewish and disenchanted. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Burn's autobiography deals with important events and famous people, but at its heart, it is the author's own personality – intelligent, modest, painfully honest, drily witty, courageous, highly principled and unfailingly urbane – that shines through. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z The aesthetic borrows heavily from the creativity of adventurous, urbane, progressive people, but is remade into the expression of angry white men who are fueled by the loathing of the very people they rip off. Rush Limbaugh captivated dads like mine and created America's modern fascist aesthetic 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The only thing a young, urbane conservative of color can do, it seems, is wait out Donald Trump and hope that the Democrats, down the line, self-destruct. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z With a variety of partners, many of them former Milk & Honey bartenders, Mr. Petraske opened several additional bars, similarly urbane and serious-minded. Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Changed Cocktail Culture, Dies at 42 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The clients, serious art collectors, trusted Mahdavi to balance dual objectives: provide the children with a comfortable home and channel the couple’s urbane tastes. India Mahdavi Brings Her Signature Style to a Country Home in Connecticut 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Then serve it forth — to your most stylish, urbane dinner guests and to your kids. Turning an Elegant Pasta Dish Child-Friendly 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z And her overriding obsession with gastronomy and wine can get tedious and, as Jan Morris commented, “may drive readers of less urbane gourmandise all the more readily to the deep-freeze Ocean Pie.” A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But this music draws some of its urbane charm from a French harmonic style, a point this ensemble made clear in its simmering, finely balanced performance. Music Review: ‘Luminance of Color,’ French Accent at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-07-18T21:53:29Z When it came to conjuring the era through the lyrics, the urbane, “playfully bawdy” couplets of Cole Porter were a touchstone for Shaiman and Wittman. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Anna and Terzo, high on their own urbane self-regard, simply refuse to let her go, insisting on every treatment possible regardless of medical advice or cruelty. Scrolling While the World Burns 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Local musicians, as well as major acts from around the country, offer a smooth, urbane palate cleanser for those who may be over-twanged from recent evenings at bluegrass and country venues. 36 Hours in Nashville 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There was a flaw in being dropped into the urbane, aspirational Viennese life. Hitting a different note in Vienna 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Since I rarely fraternize with theater people, my life as a critic has seldom delivered those urbane, exquisitely timed moments that might have come from “All About Eve.” Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Watching Tom Ripley or Israel Rank literally “get away with murder” is part of the fascination of these smoothly urbane narratives. ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Though I was far from urbane Montreal, one offering gave it a run for its money: locally caught trout covered in a light pastry and sauteed in coconut milk and caramel beer. At 375, Montreal’s cosmopolitan charm still seduces travelers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Arthur, handsome, finely dressed, urbane, is a man with a past who knows that "bad things were coming to him". Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z His more fluid results, like “Neither Here Nor There,” and the lead single, “Red,” achieve a stirring blend of modest rusticity and urbane ambition. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z You get caught up in the gleeful, urbane cadences of his dialogue before you taste the melancholy and anger within. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z He lugs it to an anxiety-inducing party, where he will be forced to act the part of the urbane tutor; things end badly. Built on rock: the geology at the heart of Oscars sensation Parasite 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Sarah Ferrell, writing about the book for The New York Times, lauded it as “urbane and erudite.” John Maxtone-Graham, an Authority on Ocean Liners, Dies at 85 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Nechaeva was lovely and affecting as her character transforms from an innocent girl into an urbane society beauty, but her voice failed to fully bloom, remaining a little thin and sometimes drifting a shade flat. Review | A beautiful ‘Onegin’ takes a late bow at WNO 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Bates hadn’t read her work before signing on to play Sylvia, the urbane grandmother, the kind who takes Margaret to Broadway shows and fancy lunches. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Much of their writing was informed, urbane and articulate, and it created a particular literary genre. ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The former Restaurant Zoe is now a gracious, airy, urbane space with whipped-cream ceilings, dark chocolate furnishings, a wall of live greenery and a colossal crystal chandelier. The Coterie Room offers creative menu 2011-11-24T00:02:37Z The vibe was urbane but convivial; everyone appeared to be having a good time. Celebrating Food and Wine in Bordeaux 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It is historically red but, thanks to an influx of the young and urbane, it’s turning purple, if not blue. Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor. Who Cares? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Modiano writes clear, languid and urbane sentences in Mr. Polizzotti’s agile translation, yet his fiction has a distant quality, as if you were hearing about its incidents from one room over. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z She smiled her way through the cafe’s front door, urbane and black-clad and somehow delightfully busy-looking, a person to whom things were always about to happen. A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Throughout, Mundy leavens the rush of violence and growing suspense with urbane cynicism: “The street was as peculiarly empty as it sometimes is when a royal personage is due for assassination.” Review | For fans of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown, an adventure story for the ages 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “Because of its history of lively, wild urbane living, there’s more acceptance of a diversity of projects in Berlin,” Mr. Krueger said. Special Report: Fashion: Presentations Reflect Berlin's Artistic Mode 2011-03-10T08:30:50Z So why are urbane women who don’t consider themselves fashion insiders daring to use vivid — and in some cases, odd — colors today? 2010-02-11T05:10:00Z But packed into the romantic urbane farce of “On the Town” are the spirituality of “Jeremiah” and the dance and blues of “Fancy Free.” Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z As he moved farther away from the countryside, his work became more and more urbane, and so did he. Mondrian’s World: From Primary Colors to the Boogie Woogie 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z After an afternoon with the art and some downtime on the lawn of Saltaire’s sprawling park — originally built for the health and well-being of the mill workers — I was ready for a more urbane setting. A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Neither his, his actors’, nor his characters’ wilder impulses are given the slightest chance to even threaten to break through his dignified, urbane moderation. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Alongside the single-origin coffee that he had shipped in from Melbourne, Sydney’s more urbane cousin, were simple but thoughtfully prepared scrambled eggs, ricotta pancakes, corn fritters, and avocado on toast. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z That meant musicals that, though strung together on some outlandish story line, were still essentially variety shows — bright patchworks of songs, dance, jokes and urbane repartee. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z This urbane album doesn’t pair Reynaldo Hahn’s seldom performed violin sonata with its clearest precursors — the much better known sonatas of Fauré, whom Hahn revered. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But the convivial crowd is urbane, as Polo shirts and Chanel handbags testify. 36 Hours in Izmir, Turkey 2013-08-21T21:03:40Z In its heart and soul, however, the fair is the opposite of urbane. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z He adds: “Barns are about as far from the urbane world of fashion as a place can get, and they stink.” Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Among Green Bay’s long, stark blocks — sun-baked in summer; snow-caked in winter — the stretch of Broadway between Dousman and Howard, filled with boutiques, cafes and restaurants, offers the most urbane bustle. 36 Hours in Green Bay, Wis. 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “So that seems to be one of the lines of defense from network buyers, is that advertisers really want things that are ‘upscale, more urbane, more glamorous.’ Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Coming in with his high-end art supplies, his urbane manners and air of distinction, Noguchi was more of an outsider than ever. Ginger Rogers bust, sculptor’s letter displayed at National Portrait Gallery As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z For those of us visiting from more urbane habitats, it was occasionally tempting to approach all this with condescension or even scorn. ‘Echoes of the Borscht Belt,’ Photos at Yeshiva University 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In his record of contemporary artists, which was the first Western essay ever in art criticism, Vasari notes that the artist, mild and urbane, was highly respected. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z He has moved with a smooth, urbane grace across storytelling genres and filmmaking styles, including bracing contemporary dramas, whimsical fables, camp parables and the odd musical. 'Young & Beautiful's' Francois Ozon savors challenges of film 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z In the fourth decade of a jazz career in which he has always made a subtle art sound easy, US saxophonist Scott Hamilton still caresses old standards with the same urbane ecstasy he always has. Scott Hamilton – review 2013-01-08T17:00:03Z It’s easy to see why he’s so popular: Cumming is delightful company, urbane, self-deprecating and mischievously funny, not above a dishy anecdote or a throwaway dirty pun. Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It Worked’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z He layered ribbed knit leggings under long corduroy shorts and added Alpine hiking boots for this urbane explorer. | Day 2 2011-01-14T22:25:52Z It doesn’t have a vast group of urbane characters dropping bon mots. Halt and Catch Fire Became the Next Mad Men When It Stopped Trying to Be 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Hart’s songs have a timeless, dreamy quality, at once emotion-laden and urbane. William Hart, Driving Force Behind the Delfonics, Dies at 77 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Wheeler, an urbane Southerner, moved easily in these circles, at cocktail parties by night and in the gardens by day. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z This “urbane” Satan was largely a function of growing secularization and new strategies for organizing erotic and social life within the so-called sexual revolution. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z Hepburn's turn in the film version turned the actress into an icon and role model for young women who fantasized about moving to New York to live the same freewheeling, urbane lifestyle. 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' aims for Broadway in 2013 2012-10-10T16:19:08Z Worlds apart from Rufus Sewell’s urbane, ironic portrayal of Melbourne in the PBS television series “Victoria,” Platt’s Lord M unleashes the Opium War on China apparently with scarcely a second thought. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z That draws a boisterous guffaw from Jones, whose loyalty to her outspoken, eccentric spouse has provoked speculation about how she could have jumped to Ingels from Cassidy, deeply troubled but unquestionably urbane. Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book 2013-07-22T16:48:08Z Dolphy’s way with blue tones is angular, jauntily inflected, urbane; his music has the tangle and the clamor of city streets, the ferocity of crowds, the romanticism of late-night lights. How Eric Dolphy Deepened My Love of Jazz 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The son of a prosperous textile manufacturer, Zweig was the elegant embodiment of the assimilated Jew — urbane, instinctually tolerant, inclined toward pacifism. Review: ‘Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark’ Revisits Moments in Exile 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z His narrator stares at a photograph of Norman Mailer in a glossy magazine and thinks: “The face of an urbane carpenter in a $200 suit.” The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z My two favorite stories in “Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned” are both by the urbane and skeptical Anatole France. ‘Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned’: a perfect book, perhaps, for the moment 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But his brutal frankness was often cloaked in urbane wit. Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The finale of the urbane, witty Cheers drew over 80 million viewers, the finale of the urbane, witty 30 Rock, not quite 5 million. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Is Must-Stream Comedy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z She was as likely to introduce the reader to Borges or Cortazar as to Theodore Sturgeon, and she did so with an effortlessly urbane confidence. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z An infectiously urbane Rubens has the Holy Family returning from Egypt as if from an afternoon stroll. Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z It served as a launchpad for the collection, which was meant to convey an urbane look, a strikingly moody deviation from Target’s customarily cheap-and-cheerful offerings. Target’s Newest Dance Partner? Joseph Altuzarra. 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Hepburn's role in the film version turned the actress into an icon and role model for young women who fantasized about moving to New York to live the same freewheeling, urbane lifestyle. Why Bway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' has no tiaras 2013-03-19T16:16:05Z But Ms. Solbert’s illustrations, at once urbane and emotional, very much in the vein of midcentury New Yorker cartoons, were likely to have contributed to its rapid elevation into the pantheon of children’s literature. Ronni Solbert, Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 96 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The cats didn't seem bothered by the music, preferring to loll around on a scratching post in the shape of Devo's famed energy dome, but then they were urbane industry cats. Klaxons, Best Coast and Wavves are all cool for cats 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z Any admirer of “The Dying Earth,” “Star King” or “Lyonesse” — and that means everyone who reads these masterpieces of urbane and wistful prose — will want this memoir. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z While early situation comedies like “Amos ’n’ Andy” still traded in old stereotypes, integrated variety shows introduced an urbane new generation of singers. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z It at least suggests a nascent anxiety: that to appreciate the music in a direct and visceral or even emotional way would be untoward for the effete, urbane listener. Riff: Lady Mondegreen and the Miracle of Misheard Song Lyrics 2012-07-13T18:54:28Z Surprisingly urbane yet comfortably artsy, this Blue Ridge hamlet is a vibrant community of locally owned shops, galleries, and cafes that provide a refreshing alternative to a mega-mall Christmas. Shopping Local in Asheville 2010-11-24T17:31:00Z Paul Dickson’s “Contraband Cocktails” opens with a paradox: “stylish, urbane ‘cocktail culture’ began to flower on the very date — January 16, 1920 — when mixed drinks and all other forms of alcohol became illegal.” ‘To Have and Have Another’: Ring in your new year as Hemingway might 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Marshaling extensive and persuasive documentary evidence, and writing in a clear, urbane style, Mr. Smith told a less romantic story. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Munrow's music-making is simultaneously radical and urbane, as you can see and hear from his work on YouTube, or if you listen to any of the more than 50 albums he also managed to make. Remembering David Munrow 2012-06-01T15:29:57Z Ardent, spirited and attractive, Anna catches the eye of an urbane family friend, Prince Prozorsky, almost twice her age, as was Tolstoy when he married Sophia. ‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z After “Tempest,” Dylan recorded collections of vintage pop standards, but he hasn’t tried to emulate the urbane concision of Irving Berlin or Hoagy Carmichael on the new album. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z His lines feel at once classic and urbane, while still rugged, coarse and unafraid of hard work, and are advertised by Florence-based musicians, baristas and scenesters in lieu of professional models. ‘Southern’ Is Not a Style 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z McGrath could have easily milked an entire evening out of his urbane parents living in the wilds of Texas. Review: In ‘Everything’s Fine,’ the Discomfort of Adolescence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It has a first-person narrator, a technique he used before only in a few short stories, and is in a style very like the urbane, sympathetic authorial persona of the earlier novels. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z She comes across as urbane, with a big sense of humour, and a wild streak. Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z It took a decade of interior designs, house conversions and a gradual growth of master planning work for universities before his own urbane architectural style came to be recognised. Rick Mather obituary 2013-04-29T17:02:08Z In his suave and urbane way, Assayas excludes his true competitors from the action, excludes the actual future of the art of movies, and sets himself and his manner up as the last cinema standing. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Two hours south of Portland, Eugene isn’t as urbane as that famously hipster city. The best towns and small cities in the US: Eugene, Oregon 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z National Review was written for just this group, in a sophisticated and urbane style. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z Surely, though, these dance characters are less urbane than their elegant costumes by Keso Dekker. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at New York City Center 2012-10-22T04:10:05Z I told Mr. Johns that Cunningham himself ranged as a dancer from the animal to the urbane. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z Foals, Friendly Fires and Delphic, as well as more obvious candidates such as Hot Chip, are all fans of this urbane German label. Kompakt bring guitars to techno 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Woody Allen, the urbane atheist of the upper east side, is very much his own invention. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z The Tiepolo family targeted their images to urbane collectors. A Gathering of Greats in a Trove of Drawings at the Morgan 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z These two shows will also feature the New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussaint, whose urbane polish masks the grit in his songs, “Workin’ in a Coal Mine” chief among them. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z Elliott, in his urbane way, says only that in 2016 Turkey was on a path to accession and that Vote Leave was citing what was a probability. 'They've turned Michael Gove into a vacillating fool' – politicians on Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “Breed” is a foray into urbane horror, chicly ghoulish, with a malevolent emphasis on family values. Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z Throughout his supposed conversion to communism, he continued to shelter in semi-colonial Shanghai's urbane foreign concessions: enjoying family life, browsing in favourite bookshops, going to Tarzan movies. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z “One of the most urbane, sophisticated humans alive, he would just sit there and watch the people come out and look at the mountains,” she said. Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z If the original villa was a place for sophisticated townies to party in a contrived version of nature, the cafe is also urbane. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z “The New York City Ballet was his Vatican. And George Balanchine he called his god,” said Mr. Dery, describing the breed of urbane, voracious devotee of high culture that is increasingly vanishing from Manhattan. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z More than a drink, juice is a lifestyle for the upscale and urbane. The Juice-Box Set Grows Up 2013-07-17T21:24:57Z Stritch’s raspy voice and boozy defiance — “another vodka stinger!” — was the perfect match for Sondheim’s urbane cynicism, and she became one of his greatest muses and interpreters. Elaine Stritch: How to Be a Broadway Diva 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z They’re not all tall as you think they are going to be, or as urbane. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z On air his urbane tenor speaking voice conveys a cool omniscience and authority that seem ageless. Gene Schiller, Music Director for Hawaii Public Radio 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z Through her prolific essays, she began building a reputation as a penetrating thinker with an urbane and unceremonious style that she would attribute to her zest for “pearl diving” in history. The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z He brought his ever-impressive intensity and urbane lyrical polish to sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The people at the march are similar to Offred — young, urbane, angry at the shape the world is in now that oppression is hurting them directly. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 3: Gender Treachery 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z He is a superb singing pianist in the urbane piano-bar tradition of Bobby Short. Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano Croon at the Metropolitan Room 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The hairstylists were busy on Carlos, the most expensive TV movie France has ever made, directed by the urbane Olivier Assayas and premiering in an enjoyable five-and-a-half hour chunk here, although out of competition. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Polished, urbane and preternaturally prepared, Cornwell’s sometimes mischievous demeanor forms a kind of shadow narrative, a fascinating carapace that Morris’s interrogatory arrows fail to fully pierce. ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Thinker, Player, Searcher, Spy 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes I felt I was registered in Cocktail Party 101; I wanted to be urbane more than erudite. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Gold, whose Roku City tweet went viral, believes that the screen saver contains an enviable sense of urbane cool. Pack Your Bags, We’re Moving to ‘Roku City’ 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z While feisty young heroines – Princess Merida in Brave, Riley Andersen in Inside Out, Moana, Finding Dory – are becoming more common in the Disney-Pixar universe, Incredibles 2 is unusual in offering older, urbane, complicated female characters. How Incredibles 2 goes to work for the feminist superhero 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It answered Hartley’s growing ambition to be perceived as an urbane vanguard artist in an international mode. ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine,’ His Muse, First and Last 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “I now say that brainy youngsters are trending urban and urbane, away from your grandfather’s office parks.” The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z What new narrative is his former partner, Ford—an urbane yet terrifying Anthony Hopkins—building, and what is at stake in his submerged struggle with the park’s corporate ownership? The Latest “Westworld” Reveal Shows It’s No “Game of Thrones” 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Tall, slender and often dressed in beautifully tailored suits, he exudes a kind of old-fashioned, urbane elegance. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z A naïf in a complex, urbane, foreign world, she moves unaware of the hypocrisy, duplicity and exploitation all around her. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z But in a role that calls for urbane wit combined with a wide-eyed sense of discovery, Mr. Ovenden said that New York itself has been a major inspiration. Death Becomes a Soaring Tenor 2011-07-17T01:00:47Z So far it’s an urbane affair: Six couples wearing Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung’s shimmering dresses or black pants and tops glide across the stage with youthful insouciance. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z With its original music and urbane characters, Smash feels like an attempt to do Glee for adults: age-appropriate escapism. Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway?s West Wing, or Its Studio 60? 2012-02-02T15:31:12Z Although filled with good insights on cultivating healthier relationships at home and work, the book is written from the standpoint of an urbane sophisticate, who often cops to average-Jane language and aw-shucks self-effacement. Review | The benefits — and limits — of today’s gratitude movement 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Granger was bland rather than urbane, perplexed rather than intimidated, and despite charm, good looks and an attractive voice, he found his career not taking off. Farley Granger obituary 2011-03-29T11:59:19Z Did they favor a spontaneous, seemingly naïve style as an “authentic” counter to more overtly urbane esthetics and lifestyles of their day? Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z He grew from, in his own words, “an unctuous, repulsively good little boy” into such an urbane prodigy that Harvard never bothered to discriminate against him. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Marty is most often found reclining in the famous striped chair, completely at odds with the urbane decor of his son’s stylish Seattle apartment. John Mahoney: Frasier's 'cranky' dad was the stove at the heart of the show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Powell looked the part; in photographs, he resembles the urbane bad guy in a Nordic thriller. ‘Inside the NRA’ Offers an Unconvincing Confession of Swamp Regret 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The two senators — Kirk an urbane Republican, Manchin a Democrat with an Appalachian zest — might be an unlikely pair. Kirk's unlikely best friend optimistic 2012-01-26T04:09:00Z His characters speak backwoods dialects, and they live by rules the urbane would never understand. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The movie captures the tone of urbane discourse with an astonishing awareness of the subtexts of every nervous remark. | 'Let It Rain': Agn?s Jaoui?s Comedy of Manners 2010-06-17T23:28:00Z Anthony Malone, an owner of the urbane, well-loved Swift Hibernian Lounge in the East Village, said his bar doesn’t get that many orders for the cocktail. The Irish Car Bomb: the controversial drink with a split reputation 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s a slightly softer variation on the hotel’s original urbane theme. See Sixty SoHo’s New Design 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In April, Mr. Trillin got the gang-gong on Twitter after The New Yorker published one of his urbane and satirical poems, “Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?” Review: In ‘Jackson, 1964,’ Calvin Trillin Reports on Race 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z His urbane and sardonic poems were increasingly filled with sex and philosophy and blues songs and late-night conversation and time spent at the dinner table. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Now, in “The Kingdom,” Carrère directs the spotlight on his own urbane, narcissistic self: Can a chic Parisian intellectual also be a Christian? Can a chic Parisian intellectual also be a Christian? 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The show’s most urban, if not urbane, artworks are Pam Frederick’s “It’s in the Cards” collages, constructed from photographs of fortuneteller shops in Washington and New Orleans. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z He is an urbane guide, involving us in his personal adventures. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z That phenomenon makes Ms. Sze’s work well suited to settings like the High Line, where one of her sculptures — a bird-and-insect observatory with an urbane twist — resides. Art Review: ?Sarah Sze: Infinite Line? at Asia Society - Review 2011-12-15T23:22:12Z I was in my mid-20s, living in a city where I had moved with the expectation that it would be more urbane and artistic than the suburbs of my youth. This is the best band from the ’90s you’ve never heard 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Rudnick set the bar high for Academy Award absurdity with “In & Out,” but it would be a mistake to underestimate this urbane wit. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It was extraordinary when Kenneth joined Treasure Hunt because he was this very respected urbane newsreader, very serious, and I think it was genius casting. Kenneth Kendall dies at 88 2012-12-14T17:51:11Z In “Stay and Fight,” Madeline ffitch’s debut novel, Helen, an urbane hipster know-it-all from Seattle, follows a boyfriend to Appalachian Ohio. A Contemporary Feminist Spin on the Traditional Pioneer Novel 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Then there was the urbane Mr. Stewart as the ruthless club owner of a graffiti-covered skinhead hangout. In ‘Green Room,’ This Band Could Be Their Death 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The newlyweds are beautiful and urbane; they are also Tibetan. The Viral Wedding Photos That Conquered China 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z While more urbane than their older tour mates — their prominent placement in television commercials helped cement their fame — they were still game for the tour’s communal spirit. Music Review: At Lilith Fair, Sisterhood Remains Powerful, if Stressed 2010-08-02T22:17:00Z Do you want an urbane vacation in a European-style city with an occasional jaunt to the slopes? Skiing Quebec, Where the Chef’s Table Is Just a Schuss Away 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z This is the real face of the ruling class – very nuanced, very urbane, very smooth, and we shall see how very ruthless they are. Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z The British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver just opened an Italian restaurant in the business district, but the most stylish hangouts, located in alleyways once used for garbage, emphasize urbane grit. Next Stop : Catching Perth’s Wave in Western Australia 2014-02-27T20:21:56Z Tonight's performance provides an urbane sanctuary of warm beer away from all the agitation in the Festival Hall. Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z A smarter alternative can be found in the West Bottoms, an industrial neighborhood that draws a more urbane crowd. The U.S. Issue: 36 Hours in Kansas City, Mo. 2010-05-13T19:19:00Z Good-looking, urbane, the rebellious child of French haute bourgeois privilege, he networked effortlessly, and had ready access to, and friendships with, the political and culture beau monde of his time. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z And he played up the urbane comedy in Cole Porter’s “Tale of the Oyster,” one of his encores, by giving the oyster and the complaining Mrs. Hoggenheimer voices of their own. Music Review: Gerald Finley at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-28T23:45:10Z Her less urbane colleagues are threatened by her: She’s the “kind of woman who always got what she wanted.” A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z They include his famous tuxedo-clad self-portrait, in which a solidly middle-class guy from Leipzig crafts himself as an imposing, urbane artistic aristocrat. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Art Deco was nothing if not urban and urbane — euphorically so. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z I was trying to be all urbane and not gush too much but what came out of my mouth was: "You dragged that out a bit, didn't you?" Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs. There were hundreds' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z That's my uncharitable opinion of Joan Rivers, formed over four decades, starting with dreading her indelicate turns standing in for the sublimely urbane Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in the 1980s. Joan Rivers: Beneath the Mask 2010-06-10T23:55:00Z The concert closed with Bartok’s six Romanian Folk Dances, which Ms. Grimaud performed as refined and urbane, contemporaries of Berg’s sonata rather than quaintly folksy. Music Review: Back at the Keyboard After a Difficult Interlude 2011-02-01T21:43:30Z It does seem clear, though, that scooters are being taken up by a young, urbane and maybe just slightly entitled demographic. The invasion of the scooter bros: A new tribe whizzes past the haters on Washington sidewalks. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z With urbane wit, and often in a colloquial or aphoristic tone, he investigated the relationships between art, reality, death, suffering and language. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z The energy generated between Alexander’s early works and new ones is urbane and uncanny, exceptionally sophisticated yet refreshingly unpretentious. The sculptures that help you to see (and feel) color in a new light 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z May, a noted Spanish playwright, said the main challenge in translating the dialogue was finding a “high-class Spanish” that matched the snappy, urbane tone of the book. With ‘Company,’ Antonio Banderas Brings Sondheim to Spain 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The signs were all around us: the knotty, urbane films of Spike Lee; the punkish bravado of Fishbone; all the artsy, middle-class kids exploring identities that weren’t beholden to readymade signifiers like “Africa and jazz.” No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He had hoped to be perceived as “the urbane essayist or columnist or humorist,” he said, but realized that his most basic desire was to be a helpful instructor, “to pass along what I knew.” William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr Sieghart described Max Is Missing as "contemporary, witty, urbane and vibrant". Poet Porter dies at the age of 81 2010-04-23T17:06:00Z She owes something — many things — to the Velvet Underground, but without that band’s urbane grit. Music Review: Coming Up for Air in a Suffocating Life 2011-07-24T21:49:02Z Arendt’s urbane and unceremonious style is in full display in these essays from the last two decades of her life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Streit’s direction is a cool breeze, while his script is a fireworks display of urbane one-liners. Theater Review: ?Him? by Clifford Streit at Cherry Lane Theater - Review 2011-12-30T23:19:01Z This contrast between Frank and Slocum may be unintentional, but it speaks to a running dichotomy in Ford’s work: between the urbane and the rural, the civilized and the wild. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z So was a particularly urbane impatience with minor inconvenience, filtered through a Jewish sense of life’s endless headaches. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z In short: casual chivalry, urbane charisma and just the slightest hint of cheek. Jazz Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z A few downtown showpieces, like the urbane Riverwalk and glamorous Millennium Park, have reaped immense financial windfalls for the city. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the Difference a Park Makes 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Peninsula Malaysia is now split, with much of the northern and northeast areas dominated by the Malay-Islamist opposition while Anwar’s government controls the urbane and richer central and southern zone. After checkered results in state polls, Malaysian leader Anwar needs to unite polarized nation 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Arenas are certainly louder and stadiums more boisterous, but it’s hard to beat a theater crowd when it comes to ironic alertness and urbane discernment. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Kalnoky, who is tall, urbane and fluent in five languages, was raised in exile in Paris, where his family resided after Communists took over Romania. In Transylvania, Anyone With $200 Can Live Like a King. (Well, One Specific King.) 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Lentini was supposed to be urbane and cosmopolitan, but urbane and cosmopolitan were all the things he wasn't. Lust, luck and a life less ordinary – the temptation of Gigi Lentini 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The urbane and cultured Johnson was an insider with a vast network of contacts in publishing and politics. The odd couple that saved Yosemite 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In the stack of military uniforms piled in a corner and waiting to be mended, Khoury opens a window on the mindless piecework an urbane woman such as Afiya must undertake. Review | ‘Selling Kabul’ falls short of its ‘Homeland’-style ambitions 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Environmentalist John Muir, who famously believed nature was cleaner than humanity, brought his much urbane editor at the Century Magazine, Robert Underwood Johnson, to see his beloved wilderness. 10 books to add to your reading list in March 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z An urbane and cultured man, Pope Benedict was an accomplished pianist, with a penchant for Mozart and Brahms. Benedict: The Pope who resigned from the papacy 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z His style could surprise his guests, who expected a polished, urbane president but met instead a gregarious ex-automobile factory manager who would sometimes burst into song, recite poems or play musical instruments. Obituary: China's Jiang Zemin confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z And, like the fictional Holly Golightly, Mr. McGrath was a shiny and urbane personality raised far from the big city — a kid amid the oil rigs and tumbleweeds of West Texas. Douglas McGrath, wide-ranging film director and playwright, dies at 64 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Of course, one of the pleasures of “Into the Woods” is the fusion of Sondheim and Lapine’s urbane notions, with the seemingly less fraught psyches of characters dreamed up for children’s consumption. Review | Go ‘Into the Woods’ at Signature Theatre. Come out charmed. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Obama, the urbane soaring orator from Hawaii, and Mr. Biden, the backslapping blue-collar pol from Delaware, have always been a political odd couple, born of different generations, demographics and mentalities. Biden and Obama Reunite in a Last-Ditch Effort to Save Their Party 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z But Samsung insiders say his quiet, urbane manner disguises a steely determination Lee will need if he is to grow Samsung. Samsung boss Jay Y. Lee to build on late father's legacy 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Khieu Samphan, urbane and multilingual, was the nominal leader and presentable face of the Khmer Rouge and a member of its tight-knit inner circle. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Ants mingling with the urbane in an urban environment, and so far from the ground, can be confusing. In N.Y.C. Apartments, the Ants Go Marching Up 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Well-to-do Cairo in the late 1940s practically defined urbane sophistication — everyone spoke French, everyone smoked: Review | Marina Warner’s new book evokes the vanished glamour of yesterday 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Some Ukrainians said that in their youth, Russian felt like the language for urbane cosmopolitans — a notion they now reject as part of what many call “decolonization” of their culture. For Russian-Speaking Ukrainians, Language Clubs Offer Way to Defy Invaders 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Jackson presents Usher as an urbane, NYU-educated exile from parents and other relatives back home. Review | ‘A Strange Loop’ is Broadway’s best new musical 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In a bid to appeal to multiplex audiences and urbane viewers of streaming platforms, it has been making fewer mass entertainers that revolve around a larger-than-life hero. KGF 2, RRR, Pushpa: The southern Indian films winning on Bollywood's turf 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But he's urbane, stylish, cosmopolitan, a member of the establishment. Before Trump, Alex Jones and QAnon: How Robert Welch created the paranoid far right 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “The Sjón we meet now is this urbane gentleman,” he said. Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z But these markers of an urbane, affluent life on the other side of the world from where he had grown up, only a few miles away, were not the endgame. ‘I Was Not Whole’: Why a Grandfather Went Back to College 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In other settings, he could be smooth, urbane and enormously generous. Robert Durst, heir to New York real estate fortune and convicted murderer, dies at 78 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Away from sports, the urbane and multi-lingual lawyer was a fixture in Swiss cultural and business life, including as a director of the Montreux Jazz Festival. François Carrard, legal doyen of Olympic sports, dies at 83 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z "I think pressure probably suits me," Leakey once said with urbane understatement. Richard Leakey - fossil expert, conservationist and politician 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Bennani is Moroccan and grew up speaking French and Moroccan Arabic, and her voice is girlish and urbane, with a gentle French accent. What Comes Next for an Artist Whose Work Goes Viral? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z These are urbane speakers, highly educated, and steeped in the arts if not artists themselves. Review: At South Coast Rep, 'A Shot Rang Out' proves to be an eloquent misfire 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Those who dealt with Mr. Mosley often echoed the same descriptions: charming and intimidating; urbane and volatile; above all ruthless. Max Mosley, motorsport executive who helped turn Formula One into a global spectacle, dies at 81 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z These days, Clarendon’s business district is a mix of bars and restaurants that range from unruly and unpolished to urbane and upscale, sprinkled between offices and storefronts. Once Arlington’s ‘Little Saigon,’ Clarendon has become a pricey place to live 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The forces that allowed Obama to get elected in the first place — Americans growing more relaxed about racial diversity and more urbane in general — are only growing stronger as time goes by. Joe Biden turns the tables on Republicans 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Sir George Martin, the Beatles’ urbane producer who guided the band’s swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutionaries, died at age 90. Today in History 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Their successful titles included “Fall in Love With Home Meals” and “The Four-Week Yoga Weight Loss Plan,” and Ms. Geng often appeared at business forums as a host and poised, urbane example of success. This Chinese Businesswoman Was a Model of Success. Then She Angered the Party. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In Karan’s version of the swearing-in, the model dresses in urbane neutrals rather than the bright jewel tones that have long been the distinctive purview of female politicians. Perspective | Pocket squares and pearls convey a stylish team’s message 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Blunt, urbane and irreverent, Mr. Urquhart possessed an understated sense of humor that showed through even in the face of his multiple brushes with death during peacekeeping efforts. Brian Urquhart, a foundational leader at the United Nations, dies at 101 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z The same propensity has carried over into Kidman’s TV work, fueled by the medium’s own quest to amass the urbane cachet of its elder sibling, film. How Nicole Kidman's rich white women took over television 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z All those contacts and the urbane bilingual charm will be targeted at soothing the frayed nerves of western allies, reassuring them that the US is back as a conventional team player. Antony Blinken: Biden's secretary of state nominee is sharp break with Trump era 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z But as conservative voters moved en masse to the Republican Party, Democrats were left concentrated in places like the city of Atlanta, adjacent and urbane Decatur, and smaller cities with significant African-American populations. How Georgia Turned From Reliably Republican to Political Ground Zero 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z A small-town New England author meets her racy novel’s urbane illustrator in Manhattan. Movies on TV this week: 'Rear Window'; 'Citizen Kane' and more 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z An urbane sleuth and his chic drinking companion solve the case of a dead gossip columnist. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, July 12, 2020 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z They were also, beneath the nonsense, a couple of urbane Jewish gents, first generation Americans from the outer boroughs of New York City, and that meant something, too. Carl Reiner started out a sidekick. His genius made him 'a very familiar stranger' 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Mimi had longed for an urbane and intellectual life in the heart of New York City, but her husband’s career took them to Colorado Springs. Review | The turbulent lives of six brothers with schizophrenia 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Jim Jensen, the local news anchor for New York’s WCBS, was brought in for the special function, but not before Mr. Roberts also failed to entice the ultimately urbane Alistair Cooke. Clifford Roberts: The man who made the Masters - Golf Digest 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But Eva was fiercely ambitious for a certain kind of urbane, cerebral life. They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Since Amanda Baumann is staying at her mother’s home in Powell Township, which is in the shadow of Sugarloaf and Hogback mountains, there were special considerations since the area isn’t exactly urbane. Virus prompts US teacher to instruct Chinese students online 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z For a CDU trying to establish whether the way out of Merkel’s shadow involves sticking to her centrist course or tacking right, its poor showing among urbane voters will offer food for thought. German centre-left victorious in Hamburg state elections 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Known for being the urbane alternative to the late-night king of the era, Johnny Carson, Cavett seemed most at home exchanging witticisms with famous guests such as Katharine Hepburn or Alfred Hitchcock. Playful. Proud. Provocative. Meet Muhammad Ali, late-night sensation 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Both men were provincial aristocrats; neither was ever entirely comfortable amid the urbane precincts of their national capitals. Trump needs a history lesson: 'America First' requires allies 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Brown County’s border lies less than 10 miles from Bloomington, the urbane hub of Indiana’s state university system. The confession 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Certainly, there are the home’s 14 rooms with beam ceilings and stately wainscoting of dark oak trimmed with stained glass: an urbane gentleman’s club. An L.A. home where homoerotic artist Tom of Finland lived is a shrine to his legacy 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He spent most of his twenties working the tables at a Turkish restaurant in Bristol, creating a signature style that blended urbane cheekiness with serious intention. How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Now, they’ve taken the comparatively young company’s design codes into another zone, creating a streamlined, urbane 40-millimeter timepiece with a circular face nestled in a modified square that’s seamlessly integrated into the band itself. Jell-O as Art, Apocalypse-Ready Clothing and More 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Lopez conjures a familiarly urbane world in which men attend lavishly prepared brunches, are oppressed by their season tickets to BAM, and feel the necessity of having an opinion on German Expressionism. How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z He produced strong works from the start, under the spell of Courbet’s audacious realism and Manet’s celebration of urbane modernity. Renoir’s Problem Nudes 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z I had a conversation once with the very urbane chef and pioneer of the contemporary British scene, Rowley Leigh. My search for the perfect salad 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z While TCM host Robert Osborne was an urbane film historian, Mr. Dorian insisted that he was little more than a movie fan. Bob Dorian, actor and magician who introduced classic films on AMC, dies at 85 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z While he was a charming and urbane guest at Newport’s extravagant galas, she became increasingly reclusive. Claus von Bülow, convicted and then acquitted of trying to kill his millionaire wife, dies at 92 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z And a recent travel piece in that other Washington newspaper judged it “urbane” and “wonderfully weird in a variety of ways.” High-flying Silicon Valley should note Michigan’s travails 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The hub of higher learning is also smart and urbane. You’re going where? Providence 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z For Tel Avivians, sitting on the Mediterranean coast, the most European of Israel’s urbane citizens, Europe is the playground and Western Europeans are the popular kids. Tel Aviv, in Need of Distraction, Hosts the Eurovision Song Contest 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “He’s got to transcend that image that he is indeed just far too East Coast-oriented — you know, that intellectual, urban, urbane establishment,” said Leonard Cutler, a political-science professor at Siena College near Albany. Bill de Blasio defies critics as he enters race for presidency 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The story, “Objects in Mirror,” describes a day in the life of an urbane screenwriter turned professor, Andrey Georgievich, who lives in a Moscow apartment with his wife and daughter. A Village Doctor’s Literary Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Cleveland Park is a bastion of urbane liberalism where just 1 in 20 voters supported President Trump in the 2016 election. D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The Cleveland Park neighborhood is a bastion of urbane liberalism where just 1 in 20 voters supported President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. District of Columbia houses homeless people in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z By chance, he met at a party Albert Freedman, a TV producer who saw in the tall, lanky and urbane academic the potential for stardom — and high earnings as a quiz show participant. Charles Van Doren, central figure in 1950s quiz-show scandal, dies at 93 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z For inspiration, the partners looked not to contemporary Christian artists or the Catholic Church, but rather to urbane magazines such as Cereal, Kinfolk and Drift. Pitching the Bible to millennials: It's a ‘content-rich lifestyle brand’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z He’s the kind of writer who makes Cumming, that emblem of urbane and decent cool, croon soulfully into a microphone one moment and, the next, utter the Western world’s most controversial word. The Bel Air Battleground of “Daddy” 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z For inspiration, the partners didn’t look to contemporary Christian artists or the Catholic Church but urbane magazines such as Kinfolk and Drift . An Instagram-worthy Bible aimed at millennials 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Carter was rural and a bit rusticated, Kennedy urban and clumsily urbane. Review | Carter and Kennedy’s bitter battle for the presidential nomination in 1980 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z These were urbane, expensively educated, presumably well-informed people. The Family That Built an Empire of Pain 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z For Robert Walker, a retired truck driver in the Bronx, an urbane appearance was less important than pain relief once he began having an issue with his teeth. Eliminating Dental Woes Without Worrisome Debt 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In fact, according to MacCulloch, his Protestantism was modeled on the contemporary Italian dissenting style: urbane, cultured, worldly, given to clandestine adherence to the faith rather than grandstanding piety. Review | The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Guantánamo’s forever prisoners have receded from public consciousness – and even in Pakistan, the Parachas have largely been forgotten, except as a rarely mentioned cautionary tale of how urbane, educated men could be involved in militancy. Forever prisoners: were a father and son wrongly ensnared by America’s war on terror? 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Near a national forest, it is a wild and dusty place, as far from Harvard’s urbane campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as is possible in America. Harvard spent $100 million on vineyards. Now it’s fighting with the neighbors. 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Instead the company will provide space on its new campus for artists and nascent entrepreneurs, which further aligns it with an image of urbane creativity that nearly every tech company seeks to maintain. Amazon and the Urban Hypocrite 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Rapidly growing Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living. Amazon to split second HQ between New York, Virginia 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Rapidly growing Long Island City is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living. Amazon HQ favorites: Similar basics, different vibes 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Each show has built the kind of young and urbane audience that is unlikely to tune in to NPR over brunch. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Clinton, after all, was one of “us” college-educated, modern, urbane and not some hooded monster preying on strangers. Opinion | I thought Juanita Broaddrick wasn’t credible. I was wrong. 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Jackson herself had a more outwardly privileged and urbane life. Agoraphobia and an unhappy marriage: the real horror behind The Haunting of Hill House 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z I wrote a column noting that, as a taxpayer, I was “most happy” to contribute to our urbane president’s date nights. Opinion | Lady of the Rings: Jacinda Rules 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z They’ve traded jackboots for business suits, purged some of their overtly racist elements and adopted more urbane messaging. In liberal Sweden, a party with neo-Nazi origins could become one of the country’s biggest after Sunday’s elections 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z It was there that he met Jennings, one year his senior, who later served as the urbane anchor of “World News Tonight.” Barrie Dunsmore, globe-trotting ABC News correspondent, dies at 79 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z With his thinning hair, paunch, elfin grin and tendency to speak in a quasi-Cockney tongue at carnival-barker volume, Mr. Leach was few people’s idea of an urbane sophisticate or a blow-dried television host. Robin Leach, ‘Jacuzzi’ journalist who hosted TV’s ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,’ dies at 76 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z As the painter Jacqueline Humphries wrote to me recently, “I see in Alex’s work so much of what I love in Manet: immediacy, grandeur, plus the keen, urbane and candid assessment of subject.” Alex Katz’s Life in Art 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The young man Wharton’s Charity meets is an urbane, book-writing architecture enthusiast from New York. Boiling point: why literature loves a long, hot summer 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z When a witty, chatty, urbane Frenchman led the 1999 Open at Carnoustie with a hole to go, Hogan turned him into Jacques Tati and installed a more suitable Scotsman as the winner instead. The Hogan Mystique, reimagined - Golf Digest 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In Hollywood’s golden age, no one made urbane, sophisticated romantic comedies like Ernst Lubitsch. The Lubitsch touch comes to Westwood 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Now stuffed with urbane offerings you rarely find at elevations of 8,000 feet and thanks to new direct flights from cities like Chicago and L.A., An Insider’s Guide to Summertime Aspen 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The former president is urbane, polyglot and out of touch. Peru’s new president, Martín Vizcarra, explains his plans 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Famously abrasive and self-centered, on the surface, Holbrooke hardly seemed to exemplify the suave, urbane diplomats of cinematic and literary fantasy. Review | The dangers of devaluing diplomacy and overvaluing the military 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z For Walmart, the partnership is the latest attempt to reach a more urbane shopper. Walmart Goes Upscale, Offering Lord & Taylor Brands 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z One of the earliest television shows broadcast in color, Rocky and His Friends was clever, fast-paced, and funny, appealing equally to little kids, urbane sophisticates, and anarchic beatniks. Amazon’s Rocky and Bullwinkle brings back an old favorite… but why? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z So it’s surprising that, with the entertaining, breezy Let the Sunshine In, Denis seems – almost – to have made a film in a familiar mould, the urbane Parisian comedy of romantic-erotic entanglements. Claire Denis: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Weinstein affair' 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z There’s a mix of older intellectuals who probably own amazing apartments somewhere in Manhattan and urbane millennials who definitely do not. Who pays hundreds of dollars to see James Comey? I went to find out 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z She code-switches frequently and fluidly, from language to language, accent to accent, from urbane art diva to nature girl. 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami' delivers textured profile of music/fashion icon 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Curiously, Flack’s measured, urbane and quietly intense brand of soul-jazz was panned by US critics during her heyday, which may account for her absence here. What, no Whitney? The biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs ever – ranked! 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Not everyone sees workwear as passably urbane, so consider where you wear it. How Carhartt Got Fashionable: A Guide to Affordably Stylish Workwear 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z When the race began, I was atop a parking garage adjacent to the urbane Dali Museum. Opinion | Florida at 200 M.P.H. 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The dress represented a lifestyle: glamorous, reckless, defiant, urbane. Perspective | What Givenchy knew before the rest of us about the power of a little black dress 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The silhouettes were urbane, with an arts and crafts edge. The Elephant in the Dressing Room 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A year into a job, the urbane former oil executive with the baritone Texas twang is making his mark not for imposing a bold foreign policy, or assembling a grand coalition. Analysis: Tillerson travels the world as the anti-Trump 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Alex was already at the table when I arrived, looking urbane with a trim David Niven mustache and navy knitted silk tie. An excerpt from 'The Vanity Fair Diaries' 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Adding to his mystique: He rarely stares back, choosing instead to focus on the minutiae of his urbane wardrobe. Armani Designed It. Richard Gere Wore It. And You Should Too 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Richard Wilbur, 96, whose meticulous, urbane poems earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and selection as the national poet laureate, died Oct. This week’s passages 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Richard Wilbur, whose meticulous, urbane poems earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and selection as the national poet laureate, died on Saturday in Belmont, Mass. He was 96. Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Even before his divorce in 1959, Mr. Hefner sought to embody the Playboy image of the carefree, urbane man about town. Hugh Hefner, visionary editor who founded Playboy magazine, dies at 91 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z "My hypothesis is that Jaggi Vasudev's act of interspersing his religious sermon with science is a conscious attempt to appeal to the urbane middle class," writes someone whose screen name is "tArkika." Attain Golf Enlightenment: Meet The Real Guru Of Golf - Golf Digest 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Known for its vineyards and outdoor adventures, New Zealand also offers more urbane pleasures. 25 Trips to Take in Your Lifetime 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z That official, an urbane central bank official named Zhou Xiaochuan, is widely expected to retire soon. China’s Reformist Central Banker Could Be a Tough Act to Follow 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Like most people associated with today’s global City, he is smart and urbane. Hashtag United, Wimbly Womblys and the virtual gamers striking it rich 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Elliott, known for his reliable white mustache, gives off the air of an urbane cowboy. A friendship and a cowboy story: Why director Brett Haley wrote 'The Hero' for Sam Elliott 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Even more depressingly, Hull seem certain to lose Marco Silva, their version of the urbane, innovative continental manager currently masterminding the Spurs “project”. Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final day of the season 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Manto, then an urbane scriptwriter in cosmopolitan Bombay, saw the savagery up close. Top 10 novels about Pakistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z We traded several urbane bon mots before agreeing to rendezvous at Iron Triangle Brewery in the Arts District on a Thursday evening. I told her that I didn't have a car. She told me, 'Goodbye' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Greens are less frequent; zealously urbane, Stettheimer wasn’t much for nature, except, surreally, for the glories of the outsized cut flowers that barge in on her indoor scenes. Revisiting Florine Stettheimer’s Place in Art History 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z He is suave and sophisticated, elegant and urbane. Captain Sensible of English band The Damned on tour, 40th anniversary 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s fascinating, relevant material, framed with urbane glamour. The Disciplined Power of “American Crime” 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps Assad, the urbane, London-educated ophthalmologist who spoke of Syria’s “own democratic experience”, would be the people’s advocate, the agent of change. Bashar al-Assad trained as a doctor. How did he become a mass murderer? | Ranjana Srivastava 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The crowd eschewed urbane black for marigold yellow, poppy red and rose pink. On Easter, Chic in Everything but Black 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z It's that educated, urbane and well-traveled people like my colleague believe it. A near-no show on Red Square highlights problems of Russia’s protest movement 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He is round-faced and short and rotund, bland and urbane and smiling. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z “Reading the columns was like walking around the city in the company of an urbane historian with an architect’s eye and a storyteller’s ear,” Mr. Leahy said. Christopher Gray, Architecture Writer and Researcher, Dies at 66 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z An urbane Hibernophile steeped in Irish literature, De Alba’s job now includes tracking detentions of Mexicans by LA and US federal law enforcement agencies. America’s millions of Mexicans without documents live in fear of deportation 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The stage set glitters with more than 300,000 Swarovski crystals and is an homage to the sly and urbane musicals of the 1930s. Oscars production designer Derek McLane gives a glimpse of Sunday's stage for the 89th Academy Awards 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Muhammad knew how to befriend students with his urbane demeanor. For high schoolers, rapper karate champ is cool teacher 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z If future presidents skew like Obama or Trump — younger and urbane, or older and rich — Camp David could be used less and less. Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0. With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed? 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z She was beautiful, witty, kind, urbane and domestic. In the Dementia Unit, Cupid’s at the Table 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z But to the outside world China has tried to promote Xi as a more international figure; an urbane, globe-trotting statesman whose shelves are packed with the works of Chekhov, Flaubert, Shelley and La Fontaine. How Xi Jinping's global ambitions could thrive as Trump turns inward 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Both films were nominated for a best picture Oscar and starred Sidney Poitier, an urbane black actor bankable with white audiences. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is 50 and racial tension still a problem in America 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z She remembered the diminutive Goebbels as an urbane man, with hands so well kept that they appeared to be manicured daily. Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, dies at 106 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Compounding the problem is Lamb’s too-relaxed performance as Hannay, an urbane gentleman who gets mixed up in a spy plot to steal British military secrets. Village Theatre’s ‘39 Steps’ takes Hitchcock for a frantic ride 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Buyers from all over the world flock to Gitman Bros. to get a piece of timeless American style: oxford shirts, plaids and rep ties often cut slightly slimmer to appeal to the trendy and urbane. As Trump pushes for U.S. manufacturing, 'Made in America' is losing its luster in the fashion world 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z In real life, Barack Obama’s most recent mouthpiece was the urbane Josh Earnest, who had a penchant for jokey sports metaphors. Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, is loud, brash and pugnacious. Period 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But you did so with unflappable dignity, unshakable class … and urbane cool. Godspeed, Mr. President 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Thae, however, is from Pyongyang's elite, speaks near-perfect English with a British accent, and is known to be charming, urbane and charismatic. Chatty and joking, elite North Korean defector becomes media star in South 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “The evidence they’ve provided is just not commensurate with firing an internationally respected scientist. It rather seems the bizarre outcome of personal differences that should have been solved in a more urbane fashion.” Sacking of prominent geoscientist rocks community 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Almost every day, Earnest, the urbane public face of the administration, is showered with questions about Trump and forced to bite his lip. 'Putting lipstick on a pig': experts on why Obama is lending Trump a hand 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z These are by far America’s richest, most technologically advanced, most culturally urbane states. What Americans Against Trump Can Learn from the Failures of the Israeli Opposition 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z And the Obama family — African-American, youthful, attractive and urbane — were archetypes of a modern city on the upswing. A Newly Vibrant Washington Fears That Trump Will Drain Its Culture 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z For starters, he’s using stripped-down acoustic guitars instead of the more refined sonic palette — piano, horns, lightly brushed percussion — that signified urbane sophistication in the 1960s and early ’70s. 'It's pretty radical': Kyle Riabko on his tribute to the music of Burt Bacharach 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Outside the central train station in Rabat, Bilal, an urbane 32-year-old, said he hadn’t voted, “because I don’t believe it would change anything”. Elections in Morocco 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton hasn’t given a news conference in more than 250 days, but her campaign has sought out friendly alternative media that is well known to a certain set of urbane, college-educated millennials. Hillary Clinton Has Sent You a Friend Request 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The Ethiopian government is known to be quite adept at damage control, using urbane officials to deflect criticism. Ethiopian Marathoner’s Protest Puts Him at Odds With His Government 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z We look today at the tall, wiry frame, sometimes bearing that strained expression when things are not going well, at others more urbane, with a ready wry smile and dry one-liner. Arsène Wenger: 20 years at Arsenal – an incredible journey of joy and frustration | Amy Lawrence 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Of the hotel management, an affable Frenchman and urbane Irishman chatted to journalists. Trump not 'welcome here': opening of DC hotel met with protests 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The normally urbane Macchiarini becomes increasingly rattled as Lindquist presses him to answer why five human beings received plastic tracheas before any experiments checking the suitability of the scaffolds in animals were published. Paolo Macchiarini: A surgeon’s downfall - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z He confesses, in contrast to the urbane reputation of Post reporters, to being “a West Virginia provincial.” Cross-cultural business challenges and a compulsion for Subway in Seoul 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Putin, the urbane, English-speaking Mr. Ivanov studied at Leningrad State University and began his career in the security services in the 1980s. Russia’s Putin Fires Top Aide in Highest-Profile Dismissal in Years 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z To me, there was nothing more urbane than being a regular at a restaurant. Novelist Rumaan Alam on a Tequila That Actually Improves the Memory 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Marginalized by a black President, as they imagine, and alienated by urbane élites of every hue, they have begun to understand themselves in terms of identity politics. White Plight? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Yet London is urbane, vibrant and sublime right now, arguably the world capital and cultural crossroads. The Big Brexit Shockwave 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The Museum of the Rockies certainly numbers among those urbane amenities for all the culture and aesthetics it brings to the area. Montana Editorial Roundup 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A camp of chefs here hopes to remake Sichuanese cooking for urbane middle-class tastes, building on the core of traditional ingredients and techniques. Sichuan cuisine: A culinary heritage in crisis 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z There may at first seem a little dissonance in an athlete as urbane and adored as Ali hailing from Louisville, the 238-year-old hub for shipping and manufacturing on the Ohio River. What Muhammad Ali Meant to Louisville 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z She makes Fellini, a more urbane soul, look a little hot in the blood. Diane Arbus’s America 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Washington state, a bit more urbane, uses an elegant chalice. Chalices, Jack-o’-Lanterns and Other State Court Tiebreakers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Safer, who spent 61 years in television news, brought an authoritative, urbane style to "60 Minutes," CBS's ground-breaking news program, and his work was a mix of hard and soft news. CBS newsman Morley Safer dead at age 84, retired days ago 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Four young men from different parts of Syria: the capital, Damascus; Hasakah in the northeast; Aleppo, once the urbane hub of the Syrian business classes, emerged from a Turkish language class. A touch of community for displaced Syrians making their way in Turkey 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Lingering at the table had long been discarded as a ritual among the urbane. Anthony Weiner, a Man Who Likes Screens 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Yet, unlike the more urbane and congenial Fielding, Richardson has a knack for psychological realism and an ability to craft characters whose clamorous inner lives continue, almost three centuries later, to feel real to us. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z When Ms. Adams met the urbane Prince Basundhara at the Yak and Yeti, he apologized for thinking she was someone else. Barbara Adams, free spirit and American expatriate in Nepal, dies at 84 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Jackson may not register nationally as an outpost of bohemianism or urbane liberalism. Southern Cities Split With States on Social Issues 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Punjab’s urbane elites regard that region as almost a foreign country. The battle for Punjab 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z This showdown between Solidarity’s charismatic, proletarian leader and his urbane former adviser symbolised the breakdown of the alliances within Polish society that had made Solidarity possible. The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland | Christian Davies 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Whether Mr. Bloomberg may be too urbane in the literal and metaphoric senses seems the more compelling question. Bloomberg’s Presidential Dreams, and Past Realities 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The XF appears quietly urbane, less emotional by a whisker this time around. Video Review: The New XF, a Jaguar Light on Its Feet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z As he squared off against a sweaty Bruce Willis, his urbane put-downs and coldly-calculated violence helped raise the film above the standard blockbuster fare. Obituary: Alan Rickman - BBC News 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z They are projected to plummet to 23,000 in the near future, reducing this sophisticated, urbane community to a "tribe". Why is India's wealthy Parsi community vanishing? - BBC News 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Handsome and urbane, Zhou Enlai presented a modern, progressive face of China at home and abroad during more than 25 years as the country's first premier. Zhou Enlai: Was Communist China's first premier gay? - BBC News 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This dapper and urbane man is sitting one leg crossed over the other, dressed immaculately and smiling serenely,” the Daily Mail reported. Kurt Russell: ‘Now is not a good time to lay down your weapons’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Surfers who appreciate both easy wave access and urbane high style will like the Cape, but only if they’re ready to splurge. Mexico’s Los Cabos Resort Bounces Back 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z If, as in Paris, extremists were going to concentrate on harming the young and urbane, out enjoying stylish consumer pleasures, Williamsburg seemed to possess horrific potential as a focus of interest. After Paris Attacks, Anxiety Returns to the Surface in New York 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s why so many people—usually well-educated, urbane liberals—would wish to be followers. The Tyranny of a Big Idea 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z He dresses in a way that’s urbane but just as appropriate for a first date as it is for taking down a diabolical crime syndicate. How to Dress Like the Most Stylish Bond Ever 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The song has earned Bryan attention for singing about something the urbane public too often assumes that conservative country singers would never sing about: sex. A roll in the hay: how country music embraced slowed-down sex jams 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But Britain’s urbane chancellor of the exchequer is no mere finance minister. The Osborne Doctrine 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The clientele began largely as urbane young Chinese professionals and expats, but now ranges from “younger people to old people—it’s really hard to say” who our average customer is, Mr. Lee said. China’s Changing Tastes Offer Upside for Coffee 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The developments are a rare setback for the firm and its longtime chairman, Wang Dongming, an urbane French speaker with a master’s degree in international finance from Georgetown University. Citic Securities Draws Beijing’s Ire After Meltdown 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The caption is quintessential New Yorker — at once disarmingly simple and obstinately urbane; a neatly packaged gauge of a reader’s familiarity with the mores and concerns of the cultural elite. We built a robot to help you win The New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z An urbane, British-educated scion of a political family, he seems to have abandoned earlier efforts to paint himself as a reformer. No more Mr Nice Guy 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Petraske went on to open similarly urbane and serious-minded bars with a number of partners, many of them former Milk & Honey bartenders. Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Revived Luster to Cocktail Culture Around the World, Dies at 42 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The idea of Parker Posey in a Woody Allen movie brings to mind a certain loose, fast-talking urbane type, and it is to the credit of both of them that here she is not that. Joaquin Phoenix aces role in Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “He was very urbane,” says Klein, now with DLA Piper Global Law Firm. The homeless man who graduated Harvard Law with John Roberts 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z While the only event scheduled beyond summer is a Nov. 7 appearance in the music room by Cyrus Chestnut — a stalwart of urbane pianism not likely to ruffle feathers — many possibilities are being considered. Partnership’s Opening Number: A Day of Jazz 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Foreigners meeting him saw an urbane and relatively sophisticated politician, but his influence on policy was limited. Tariq Aziz dies; Saddam Hussein’s top minister, longtime spokesman for Iraq 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In 1920, the urban and urbane residents of Alexandria severed their ties to the rest of the county, having decided that they didn’t want their fortunes connected to rural Arlington. Interested in Arlington history? This is the place for you. 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z In rural France, the sculptor of whimsical objects finds a home for her urbane sensibilities. Marie Christophe's Delicate Balance 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Millennials may be an urbane, diverse and “tolerant” generation, but they are also caught in a vicious cultural mire of shaming, vindictiveness, and postmodern puritanical preening that rivals their 17th century ancestors. The Modern Day Scarlet Letter 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z More than a third prefer the urbane and urban life, and the Big Apple is the town of choice. Inside the Beltway: Hillary Clinton’s troubles costing her politically 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z "He was very pleasant, urbane, not a thug. He was always reputed to be the family's fixer, whatever needed fixing." The mysterious Mr. Ri returns, urbane survivor of North Korea purge 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z They will promise to crush the skulls of all Democrats and their urbane, fairy ways on Day One in the White House. LIVE FROM CPAC: Ted Cruz’s highly dubious ’16 pitch: I’m a fighter, not a talker 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Tens of millions of Russians, mainly younger and urbane, use social media. ‘Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Paul Vaughan's urbane voice was a familiar feature on BBC radio and television. Been and Gone: An eccentric duchess and a clown fanatic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The foundation said Strand used precise language and surreal imagery and that his later works focused on self-examination with "pointed, often urbane wit." Prize-winning American poet Mark Strand dies in New York 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z "Making a comedy about Islamic State is like trying to defuse a bomb," said Thair Chiad, the show's urbane writer and creator. Iraqi TV comedy throws a cream pie at Islamic State 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z An urbane lawyer, Mr Jaitley holds a remarkable three cabinet posts—minister of finance, of defence and of corporate affairs. The enablers 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Everybody likes a little bit of straight-talking from an England manager: some honesty, a little urbane perspective. Raheem Sterling may be ‘tired’ but he still finds time to stretch legs 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z In some areas of Irbil, long considered something of a dusty backwater by more urbane Iraqis, real estate prices soared to Manhattan-like levels. Obama needs Iraqi Kurds to fight Islamic State. But they have their own troubles. I expected the audiences in New York to be wry, snooty and urbane, wearing little black-rimmed glasses. Josie Long: Why I love Walt Whitman 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Hummels’ parents divorced when he was young, and his urbane upbringing should allow him to instantly adapt to the foreign environment of English football. Germany’s Mats Hummels would fit in at Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Among the urbane citizens of the virtual world the distinction between geographical spaces seems to matter less and less. Neymar v James Rodríguez – the first clash of the glamour boy No10s 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the Senate’s brilliant, urbane, bow-tied intellectual who wrote books on sociology and international law. The power of authenticity Elegantly tousled hair and the urbane air of a man who would know his way around a wine list rather than spray champagne over your head. Guardian fashion's fantasy World Cup football team 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Isaacson and Key share a sheen in their prose or poetry, a talent for seizing a chance to tell a story, and a Southern spark of urbane polish. Walter Issacson, Francis Scott Key and America's Conflicted History 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z This is creating a new challenge by pitting the bullish Vladimir Putin against Moldova's urbane and cautious prime minister, Iurie Leanca. Could Trans-Dniester be the next Crimea? 2014-03-20T11:22:14Z The wheeling, the dealing, the fooling, the fabricating — it was all on at my brunch, but at a modest farmers’-market scale, and veiled in new India’s urbane cool. Opinion: Mumbai’s Empty Parlor Games 2014-02-22T19:29:17Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For years, Jihad Makdissi was the urbane, outward-looking face of the Syrian government, proclaiming its views in perfect English as the Foreign Ministry’s spokesman. Ex-Official Claims to Speak for Sidelined Syrians 2014-01-19T03:37:03Z Since 2006, Mr. Marshall has dedicated his blog to highlighting the Tuxedo as "the apex of civilized, urbane" formal wear. Fashion Catches Up With the Canadian Tuxedo 2013-11-02T02:31:05Z He is gracious, urbane and willing to answer any question, even those about reality television. On Olympics: As Delegates Gather, Murky I.O.C. Politics Takes the Stage 2013-09-06T20:32:31Z An urbane former Minister of Commerce with a liking for sleek suits and media attention, Mr. Bo was appointed the Communist Party secretary of Chongqing, a relatively poor municipality in southwest China, in 2007. Chinese Politician to Stand Trial for Corruption 2013-08-18T11:59:46Z The characters are suitably well traveled and urbane. The Chinese Sex and The City 2013-08-14T20:35:32Z In contrast to past migrant workers, content to trudge to work in slippers and pajamas, He and his friends carefully cultivate their urbane looks. China's New Migrant Workers Want More 2013-07-30T20:18:49Z On this occasion he played the urbane host. Smile! One of You Will Be the Next Mayor of New York 2013-07-25T15:17:11Z Queiroz was sophisticated and urbane, adding a continental lustre to the club, as it sought to dominate Europe. The A to Z of Sir Alex Ferguson 2013-05-12T10:30:01Z Enter Stale Solbakken – the calm, urbane, intelligent, fluent in four languages, model of a manager. Five reasons why Wolves have fallen from grace and into League One 2013-05-05T13:36:55Z The urbane Wang, 59, won plaudits for helping improve relations with Taiwan, the self-ruled island China claims as its own, as minister of China's Taiwan Affairs Office. China formally appoints top diplomats, defense minister 2013-03-16T09:18:58Z The urbane Wang, 59, is regarded as a capable, smooth diplomat. New top diplomats in China signal focus on U.S., Japan, North Korea 2013-02-28T08:14:04Z Waite, the Australian who became Great Britain's first overseas coach back in 2001, is urbane, intelligent and bilingual, although occasionally hard to understand in English, never mind French. Super League Set of Six: why the World Club Challenge is one to savour 2013-02-19T10:15:00Z “It’s not uncommon for Middle Eastern autocracies to appoint urbane, English-speaking foreign ministers to project a more sophisticated image to the world,” says Karim Sadjadpour, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. Ali Akbar Salehi 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z I say "reasonable" performance, and reasonable was the operative word, frequently used by the urbane committee chairman, Andrew Tyrie, and Carney himself. Carney's exhortations can't revive UK economy on their own 2013-02-10T00:05:25Z Catholic bookstore closing: Newman Bookstore, where top cardinals in town from the Vatican have brushed elbows with seminarians and urbane laypeople since 1955, is closing up shop in May. Newman Bookstore closing; longtime intellectual Catholic hub in District 2013-02-09T01:31:00Z Behind his facade of urbane charm and unfailing politeness, there was a strong will and steely nature. The grown-ups with teddy bears 2013-02-01T17:11:45Z The election campaign between a left-leaning populist and an urbane conservative deeply polarized the country. Former Prime Minister Is Elected President of Czech Republic 2013-01-26T17:18:26Z Against that backdrop, the avuncular and urbane Mr. Schwarzenberg has emerged as a conciliatory candidate of unexpectedly wide appeal. Czech Prince, Schwarzenberg, Runs a Punk Campaign 2013-01-25T02:56:06Z Hollywood's biggest stars turned out to pay tribute to the writer of When Harry Met Sally, who was branded a "latter-day, urbane Mark Twain". Farewell in 2012 2012-12-30T00:56:47Z Newman Bookstore, where top cardinals in town from the Vatican have brushed elbows with young seminarians and urbane laypeople since opening in 1955, is closing up shop in May. Newman Bookstore closing; longtime intellectual Catholic hub in District 2013-02-09T01:31:00Z Lynn tried to maintain the facade of the cool, detached, urbane professional, simply going about his day-to-day. The Joy of Six: alternative sporting heroes of 2012 2012-12-21T09:26:00Z Nor was Bruce Buck, their urbane chairman, there to face the music. Roman Abramovich: everywhere and nowhere as Chelsea turn toxic 2012-11-23T23:02:03Z His urbane and cultured approach to life and management seem to go down well with the students. Roy Hodgson shows Oxford Union his style is as impressive as Psy's 2012-11-21T13:12:39Z The urbane Mr Koroma received me in his Presidential Lodge on a Freetown hilltop. Sierra Leone faces huge election test 2012-11-16T04:24:33Z The urbane Aleppans have never really warmed to the opposition fighers, most of whom come from religiously conservative Sunni Muslim small-towns–and there is growing concern that the rebels are turning more sectarian. Aleppo's Deadly Stalemate: A Visit to Syria's Divided Metropolis 2012-11-15T02:05:23Z Analysts saw the latter as an attempt by the urbane, secularist former insider to burnish his credentials with the Islamist-inclined Sunni core of the rebellion. When Syria's Dust Settles, Will Assad Be Replaced by a 'Junta in a Box'? 2012-07-31T11:05:29Z Forget about corpulent generals in aviator sunglasses: today’s authoritarians are urbane, technologically savvy, and skilled at repurposing due process and popular elections in order to concentrate their power. A Big Hug For Hugo 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z This generation of Labour politicians, by contrast, are meant to be urbane, well-schooled in power, and capable of not just being ideologically flexible but thinking big. Politics must respond to this pile-up of corporate disgrace 2012-07-22T19:30:04Z His interventions into the generally anodyne flow of Eurotalk take aim at everything the union stands for and are generally delivered with gusto to a comic backdrop of urbane and disbelieving faces. Nigel Farage: I was never scared of being out on a limb 2012-07-21T21:06:01Z David Brown, an urbane New Yorker with whom Mr. Zanuck produced the two Spielberg films, also worked with him in producing “The Sting” in 1973. Richard Zanuck, Producer of Blockbusters, Dies at 77 2012-07-14T02:39:30Z Diamond regularly suggested that communication between regulators, government and the bank would have been conducted over his head, when the urbane Varley was chief executive. Bob Diamond at the select committee: six things we learned 2012-07-04T18:10:01Z Never mind the pressures of making a presentation in the white heat of a bells-and-whistles press conference – for the slick, urbane House, that represents his comfort zone. E3 2012: Sony's Andrew House – interview 2012-06-28T16:31:26Z Seeing as Fibak hosted their courtship at his Greenwich home, the urbane Pole may be as responsible for Lendl’s warm gummy smile as his better-known scowl. Can Ivan Lendl Lead Andy Murray to Tennis Greatness? 2012-06-20T21:25:05Z And while the latter would ultimately graduate in 1975, for a period the future political rivals and ideological nemeses were roommates, close chums, and urbane fellows who lured attractive women without difficulty. Class Notes on the Greek Election 2012-06-19T08:45:00Z Did the famously urbane Cecil direct any harsh words at his jockey? Henry Cecil back in fashion as Frankel takes real flair to Royal Ascot 2012-06-17T16:38:53Z "LAST BULWARK" Ironically, the man who hopes to represent the Gard is not a local boy, but Collard, 64, an urbane figure known nationally as a devil's advocate for defending unpopular clients and causes. Bulls, suburbs and the French far right 2012-06-07T16:00:10Z "I simply hung on for dear life," said the urbane Anand after the match. Viswanathan Anand crowned world chess champion for fifth time 2012-05-30T16:12:51Z Putin may view Shuvalov, an urbane, English-speaking lawyer, as invaluable for his role as a balance between factions in the Kremlin's orbit - the 'siloviki' linked to the security services and more liberal reformers. Putin seeking control in Russian cabinet selection 2012-05-18T17:28:18Z He looked as honest as urbane, and for the first time Mrs. Balfame's heart sank; and her hands, so the women reporters noted for the benefit of the public, clenched for a full minute. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Mr. Clay, in his urbane and gentle manner, rose to reply. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z The rash American had gone and the Fonda Malaguena owned the rule of a fat and urbane gentleman who claimed to have come from Spain. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Nothing could be generally more urbane or less ceremonious in the matter of exactions as to toilet, than was this distinguished patron of music. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The fact that you are too urbane to take the pool seriously is only slightly undercut by your knowledge that Vermont’s nickname is the Catamounts. | Selection Sunday: What Your N.C.A.A. Tournament Bracket Says About You 2012-03-12T00:02:40Z They are written in an urbane and agreeable manner, but are wholly lacking in originality, insight, and vigour; while their bits of learning strike the more modern reader as old fashioned, even if not pedantic. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z “To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment,” replied the urbane Italian, as he recovered from his first surprise at Randal’s sudden address, and extended his hand. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z In Tripoli, shortly before Turkish diplomats negotiated our release and drove us from Libya, we sat in a lavish office as an urbane Foreign Ministry official chatted with us. Excerpt: House of Stone 2012-02-19T00:51:57Z And what," Sir Robert asked with urbane sarcasm, "becomes of the rights of the people in that case, Lady Lansdowne? Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "I only sound the clarion," said the urbane master-gardener of an earlier day, "but I enter not into the battle." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z An urbane man in a smart dark suit, Mr. Avetisyan cuts something of an isolated figure in the echoing halls of the reconstructed Russian Embassy, a third of its former size. Kabul?s Soviet Ruins Offer a Reminder of Imperial Ambitions 2012-02-11T23:03:31Z He is the most urbane and the most agreeably gossiping companion. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z But no one would consider a city ordinary where militiamen tortured to death an urbane former diplomat two weeks ago, where hundreds of refugees deemed loyal to Col. Libya?s New Government Unable to Control Militias 2012-02-09T03:19:48Z Chadber was the name of the host, florid of countenance, portly of person, and of manner pompous and urbane. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Cullen, on the other hand, was a stripling with a soft face like a girl's, exquisite in his dress, urbane in his manners. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z But for all his commitment to organic farming and food safety, he does not exactly comport with the image of the modern urbane foodie. Senator Brings Dinner From Montana 2012-01-10T22:10:28Z He was sauntering onward by the side of this urbane and garrulous stranger, when, like a whisper, the thought came, “Take care!” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z On the bench he had complete control over his temper; he was always urbane and decorous and usually dignified. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z His Grace was smilingly urbane, Andrew boisterous and amusing, and O'Hara bent on keeping the conversation up. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z His legs and arms, said the urbane peer,414 seem to have undergone the rack, his head hanging limp on his shoulder the first stroke of the axe. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z “I didn’t refer to the age of the toys,” said the urbane shopkeeper, with the ghost of a smile in his eye. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Its point of view is deftly sharpened, its manner is urbane and charming, without posture or allegorical pseudo-romantics. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A few blocks away in Union Square, the Hotel Rex’s tweedy décor and emphasis on its Jack London heritage caters to urbane literary sorts who read The New Yorker. Chip Conley: The 5 Things Everyone Wants From You 2011-12-12T15:45:00Z Britannia was not capable of expounding the noble science as it was understood by the polished and urbane Rovers of Blackhampton. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Now was his opportunity to probe Mr. Vernon, or rather to lead him gradually into the urbane presence of Mr. Ripple who would certainly probe him deep enough. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He did this in a beautifully urbane fashion, that showed he had quite as much respect for himself as for his employers. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z This is the sort of urbane pleasantry in which British essayists are prolific and graceful. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z On one side sat Goldwin, the genius who had created this lovely witchery, urbane, devoted, allegiant; on the other side sat a man of deserved eminence, a wit, a scholar, a statesman. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z He's urbane and won't dispute; he smiles and lets you down. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Outside he rapped smartly on the door, which was cautiously opened sufficiently wide to allow the urbane countenance of the Beau to peer round the corner. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Even Alexander Hamilton, the most urbane of the Founding Fathers, knew that much: “No Citizen of the United States should refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day,” he proscribed. The Revolution Will Be Delicious 2011-11-16T10:00:54Z His manner was urbane, with a tendency towards pomposity; and when he smiled, which was often, he showed a set of teeth which were as white and regular as the dentist could make them. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z And at the head of this urbane and flourishing commonwealth sat the great Umeyyad khalifa, emulous of the glories of Bagdad and Cairo, and eager to surpass them in elegance and splendour. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z He's urbane and polished, but when you go with him on the rocks you note his steely pluck. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Where R*****, gentlest, kindliest of Beaux, To all the world an urbane presence shows: Proclaims the tropick joys of China Tea, And rules e'en Fashion with his polished sway. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Slade seemed as suave and urbane as before, but his eye was a trifle frostier and his tone carried a peremptory note. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z She led the way to the dining-room, where an entirely new supper had been arranged, on purpose for him, and where he was impressively received by the urbane father and his fluttering daughters. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z The gentleman, who had engaged Branwell as tutor to his son, was a man of some literary attainments; he was fond of rural sports, and had an urbane disposition, and quick perceptions. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z “Anybody who presumes to be ‘with it,’ much less urbane,” he said, “is expected to know what chutzpah is and to use it.” City Room: Romney, Bachmann and the Oys of Yiddish 2011-10-20T12:22:03Z At eleven o'clock of Monday forenoon the deputation waited upon the Beau and was ushered over the Turkey carpet into his urbane presence. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He was measured and urbane; his discourses abounded in apt illustration; he was never dull. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z But, my dear sir," the urbane uncle interposed, "I am her natural guardian, don't you see. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z Indeed, their manners were so urbane and pleasing, that in a very short time I recovered from my depression of spirits, and congratulated myself on my good fortune in falling into their company. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z Old M. Pigeonneau meanwhile hovered near, hesitating apparently between the desire to be urbane and the absence of a pretext. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z He took a tolerant pity on their restiveness, relaxing to an urbane smile as though his machinery were eased by the oil which always flowed when his prosecuting talent raised its head. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z "At what hour can I rely on Your Eminence's promise to-morrow?" she rejoined, calmly ignoring his urbane speech. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z It is urbane, like Horace or Addison, without any town society to support the author in his criticism of life. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z They retired soon after to their room, but hardly had they entered ere the urbane Marco glided in and tapped each on the shoulder. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z His manners were free, urbane, and familiar; but there was discovered a disposition to covetousness, and the usual propensity to inebriety. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z There came a voice, an urbane, and cultured voice, well modulated and serene. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z My friend," here interposed a gentle, very urbane voice, "meseems thy zeal somewhat outruns thy discretion. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Anyway, you're probably doing something impossibly urbane and sophisticated like shopping for shoes or sitting on the sofa and eating a cheese sandwich, but please do get involved. Saturday Clockwatch - live! 2011-08-06T13:14:00Z The journey taken by the urbane 37-year-old German appears more surreal. Dietmar Hamann: 'It's different to World Cup but it's still exciting' 2011-08-05T22:04:01Z |
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