urbaneness

And this has perhaps given to the eighteenth century an urbaneness from which its predecessor was largely free.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

"Anything to do with village crime -- we make that our special subject," the curator informs you with a pleasing urbaneness.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

And Hazlitt, though he is very readable, has neither the urbaneness, nor the science, nor the learning, nor the wide grasp of life and of history that characterizes the three above-named.

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

But can anyone say that the members of the government -- the bureau chiefs frequently fare even worse -- meet in the parliamentary debates with that urbaneness of demeanor which characterizes our best society?

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

Such was the grandeur and urbaneness of his manner, the dignity and majesty of his carriage, that his only peer in social life could be found in courts and among those educated amid the refinements of courts and thrones.

A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876

This is the anti-Seeger, earthy sentimentality replaced by sardonic urbaneness.

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Raju Puri from Vijayawada, with mere pastels on paper conveys the rural sensuousness amidst the throbbing urbaneness of Hyderabad.

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