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Even so, Judt preferred what he called the more mondain tone of Oxford to Cambridge "cleverness", and said later that he had been tempted to return to Oxford, but never to his own alma mater.

Tony Judt obituary 2010

Un article intitulé «Celle qui ne se mélange pas avec les autres» dénonce la «chanteuse qui incarne à la perfection le pire du microcosme idéologico-mondain».

[carla bruni-sarkozy] déchaîne les passions italiennes 2009

Un article intitulé «Celle qui ne se mélange pas avec les autres» dénonce la «chanteuse qui incarne à la perfection le pire du microcosme idéologico-mondain».

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Certainly there have always been many readers who appreciate the so-called historical poems, set in marginal Mediterranean locales and long-dead eras and tart with mondain irony and a certain weary stoicism.

'As Good as Great Poetry Gets' Mendelsohn, Daniel 2008

Belgian figure-painting gains by the lack of the element which a French critic notes when he says modern art has become _mondain -- surtout demi-mondain_.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

He was very shy (one saw it was an effort for him every time that any one was brought up to him and he had to make polite phrases), not in the least mondain, but simple, charming when one talked to him.

My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914

So even when the Government proposed the creation of demi-mondain bishops, and the setting up of what amounted to a second establishment in the upper chamber of its spiritual spouse, the outward proprieties were still observed, and the sanctities of national interests respected.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

That world was brilliant, distinguished, sometimes artistic, sometimes merely _mondain_.

Love at Second Sight Ada Leverson 1897

At that time he was a popular priest -- mondain, clever and eloquent.

On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890

Even the world, so mondain as it is, still holds instinctively and as

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868