He was an urbane intellectual in a country terrorized by a primitive tribal thug and his loyal clansmen. |
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Allan Ruddock, the urbane Irishman who recently edited The Scotsman, now has a new role. |
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There's the urbane family man, charming in company and fanatical about sport. |
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He wooed dozens of heroines on-screen and captivated millions of fans off it with his urbane charm. |
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This, you knew immediately, was the art of an urbane and worldly society that valued beauty, elegance and sophistication. |
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The confusion of national and personal interest is not uncommon among dictators, however urbane. |
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That means style queens are going to feel a lot more comfortable in New Town's urbane outposts than the boozy, backslapping pubs of Old Town. |
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He was authoritarian and intolerant but was also urbane and charming when he needed to be. |
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She found her man the right hairstylist and updated his frumpy wardrobe to achieve the urbane Euro flavor he aspired to. |
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This time his tongue tickled a greater variety of refined, abstract words from his mouth, while speaking in an educated, urbane manner. |
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Educated at one of Shanghai's top universities, he's urbane, articulate in English and works in a foreign law firm. |
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And for all their alleged ironic detachment and urbane wit, they never got the joke. |
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A less common subspecies generates vocal noises to signal intellectual superiority rather than just urbane sophistication. |
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In place of imposing rational discovery, the hard-boiled hero experiences bewildering initiation into the violence just under an urbane surface. |
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And though he likes the view from where he is, it's not easy to always be the smiling face, the urbane, even-tempered young man. |
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And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull. |
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He appears, at first sight, to be very like his urbane television character, the radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane. |
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The move from brute power to one of the most fashionable and urbane runarounds on the road isn't as bizarre as it sounds, he insists. |
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His sharp intellect, keen wit and urbane presence have been an asset of varying value to the Labour Party for almost 40 years. |
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The urbane 40-year-old coach is a gabber extraordinaire, who simply oozes warmth and charm. |
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He was urbane and charming as, indeed, are most members of the Sri Lankan ruling elite. |
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Their all-black uniforms complemented well the restaurant's suave and urbane ambience. |
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At last, something has breached the barriers of the urbane politeness he seems to construct around himself these days. |
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His blurred tone and urbane, eloquent solos are enjoyable enough, but the star here is the tenorist. |
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Though she had known him less than two days, Dorethea considered Mr Shrewsbury to be wonderfully urbane and civilised. |
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Both characters are urbane easterners who fit very well into the diverse, fast-paced lifestyle of New York. |
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They were urbane as well as patriotic, superbly efficient in their work yet interested in the world outside government. |
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The book takes us backstage during the performance, and shows us a consummately complex man, urbane, mercurial, bitter, funny and, again, bitter. |
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Sometimes people feel insulted to get doles from jeans-clad English-speaking urbane rich-kids. |
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He was urbane, witty, had impeccable taste and was by all accounts a great fan of the ladies. |
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Balancing out the aforementioned examples of popular sentiment are a host of obscurities from various branches of urbane soul. |
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He was impeccably dressed, unfailingly polite, urbane and sophisticated. |
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The classical skyscraper is one of Gotham's gifts to the world, the urbane expression of its technical genius, wealth, and confident cosmopolitanism. |
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And so image-sensitive liberal, urbane, ironic culturati are going to want to prove their complex open-heartedness by indifferently swooning over her book. |
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The result is a collection of songs that shift like sands, with cyberpunk, strings, looped beats and urbane poetry blurring the divide between rock and the experimental. |
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I believe in calling a spade a spade. Tony Blair is merely an urbane murderer. |
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My urbane friend, going through the motions of abstemiousness, can't resist a taste. |
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Debonair, suave, urbane, Noël Coward epitomized the cardinal virtues of his era — qualities that not many men aspire to anymore. |
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If he is not always affable and urbane, he at least is never truculent or overbearing. |
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Eustis was for many years a confirmed bachelor, described as urbane and charming. |
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Its urbane and architectonic arrangement complies with the requirements for flexibility of exhibition areas. |
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The culture of leisure, urbane and event-driven, attracts new visitors to the great metropolitan areas of developed countries. |
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She is an artist of substance without pretension, witty and urbane without condescension. |
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Thanks to its assertive square shape, the Speedy exudes a quality of urbane elegance. |
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An upscale, urbane coffee shop located beside the Subway offers fine coffee, delicious treats and occasionally live entertainment. |
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The new, elegant wall tile format of 25 x 75 cm creates an atmosphere of urbane generosity. |
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Childish games contrast with urbane sophistication, grief with happiness, tension with release, darkness with light. |
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And menswear designer Michael Bastian created a world of gentlemen farmers and urbane dandies. |
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The year 2011 was particularly tough for the usually gracious and urbane president. |
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Imagine the rugged masculinity of Clark Gable combined with the savoir faire of Cary Grant and you get a sense of his urbane thief about town Daniel Ocean. |
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The true standout moments are not necessarily the most urbane. |
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This is some of the most polite, urbane jazz I have heard for ages. |
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Black and white can also bring a touch of drama to dining and living rooms, where sideboards, screens and leather sofas can provide a touch of urbane chic. |
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Cary Grant, you will remember, was the sophisticated, urbane Englishman. |
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It was a terrible thing to say, especially since he is an urbane man. |
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Pat was cultured and urbane and had a wonderful sense of humour. |
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During the last century, Finland has reinvented itself as a highly sophisticated, socially urbane culture with the highest aspirations for design and for architecture. |
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Suave, urbane officials smooth along the gilded corridors. |
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The article on the Kawartha Lakes regattas, however, emphasizes a more urbane type of river recreation, as well as acknowledging the role of water sports as secular rituals. |
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No one is so wise or important that he can neglect being urbane. |
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It's easy to figure out why: It might upset our urbane sensibilities. |
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They swear allegiance to their own kind, stake out turf outside the walls and deliberately ignore the latest urbane fads and catwalk fashion trends. |
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The Satires and Epistles discuss ethical and literary problems in an urbane, witty manner. |
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Both are urbane, smart-mouthed and kindhearted. |
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But it is precisely that, this hodgepodge of the disjointed, the nervous, the old and new, the parochial and urbane, East and West, that has long since constituted Berlin's true appeal and probably also its self-image. |
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The Vision for this Plan is to make LeBreton Flats the community of the next century, to challenge the developers of the future to create an urbane neighbourhood in the Central Area where people can live, work and play. |
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His urbane Epicureanism and personal charm, his aphoristic philosophy and studied perfection won him recognition as Rome's leading poet after the death of his friend Virgil. |
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The high standards of design and quality symbolised by Ida Gut appeal to women who are looking for urbane classical fashion in modern clothing, clothing that expresses cultural sensitivity. |
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In a throwback to the 50s and a return to the graphic style, Candino presents a classic chronograph watch, angular in style and both sporty and urbane in profile. |
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In France, people sometimes think of classical music as a sort of urbane veneer, a way of showing others you're moving up in the world or getting rich. |
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Especially the editor, the urbane Stephen Glover, whose gasper of choice was a Gauloise – and who would occasionally take conference in black tie if he had a formal do to attend later. |
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Being educated, urbane and alert is no safeguard. |
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For these figures, the alternative to family-centered village life, or the husk that remains of it, isn't urbane cosmopolitanism but sociopathic amorality. |
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