metropolitanism

The liberal voters Mr Cameron lured back to his party by flaunting his metropolitanism are the most likely to be put off by any hint of censoriousness.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

Local cultures on the margins of capitalism do not merely imitate metropolitanism; instead, they bring their own ingredients and senses of distinction to the encounter.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Ottawa, and is a candidate, in conjunction with Montreal and Toronto, for the honour of permanent metropolitanism.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Mary, watching, saw the spruce veneer of metropolitanism fall from their guest like a discarded mask -- the grave, steady Highlander emerged.

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

She stayed at two or three places a day for at least one meal -- hotels in tiny towns she had never heard of, and in larger towns that were fumbling for metropolitanism.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

He did not shake his fist at the embodied spirit of metropolitanism before him, as had a famous

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Bennietod was Bowery-born and office-bred, and this sad metropolitanism almost made of him a good philosopher.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

It was "the newest move in Cleveland's progress toward complete metropolitanism."

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I would venture that their "antiprovincialism" comes largely in response to Palin's anti-metropolitanism.

Kitsap Sun Stories 2009