Sentence examples for cosmopolitan background from inspiring English sources

Hessel's internationalism was rooted in his cosmopolitan background.

Born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north London, the "English rose" came from a thoroughly cosmopolitan background.

With his cosmopolitan background, Obama makes an especially tempting target for the paranoid style.

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.

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.

This year promises to be no exception, and reactions may be even more heated because of the cosmopolitan backgrounds of the writers who have been chosen.

"I think attitudes like these reflect a professional culture that draws people differentially from progressive and cosmopolitan backgrounds, and that reinforces those views through contact with like-minded colleagues.

She recalls encountering kids who came from less cosmopolitan backgrounds: "There was this boy who was really smart and really intellectual, and he came from, like, a steel town in Pennsylvania, and his family called him 'the freak.' I had never met a person who was different from their parents before".

Beethoven, despite his cosmopolitan Enlightenment background, was not immune to such sentiments.

Despite his well-bred charm and his cosmopolitan, establishment background (born in Paris, educated at Millfield and Oxford), he remains a quintessential outsider.