Born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north London, the "English rose" came from a thoroughly cosmopolitan background.
Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, William Henry Chamberlin, an author and a historian, wrote that Professor Taylor, thanks to "his cosmopolitan background," had "an ability to view the pattern of Far Eastern power politics realistically, and with a noteworthy absence of nationalist bias".
IF the Games are a runaway success, this take-life-as-it-comes approach seems sure to be heralded as a token of his good-humored worldliness, a product, perhaps, of his cosmopolitan background.
Mrs Ghani's cosmopolitan background seems a world away from the reality of many Afghan women in a country where domestic abuse is rife and women fleeing violence at home can end up in jail.
Princess Rym is a shy modern royal with a common touch, despite her diplomatic pedigree, cosmopolitan background and the obvious trappings of security, protocol and obligations.
With his cosmopolitan background, Obama makes an especially tempting target for the paranoid style.
Nublu is the creation not of a showbiz impresario but of a saxophonist and keyboard player, Ilhan Ersahin, and reflects his cosmopolitan background and approach to music.
The perma-smile, the Italianate bonhomie of his cosmopolitan background, the trademark shocking pink shirts.
Her job was to promote French culture across the United States, but the freedom and eclecticism of American culture better suited her cosmopolitan background.
(He tries to read it but finds himself distracted from the story of English provincial life by wondering about the cosmopolitan background of the Countess Olenska).
