Sentence examples for cosmopolitan backgrounds from inspiring English sources

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".

The perma-smile, the Italianate bonhomie of his cosmopolitan background, the trademark shocking pink shirts.

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

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

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).

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.

It was his cosmopolitan background that made Ramirez the perfect choice to play Illich Ramírez Sánchez in Olivier Assayas's epic six-hour saga Carlos, about the notorious Venezuelan-born international terrorist of the 70s and 80s, nicknamed the Jackal.