Sentence examples for cosmopolitan figure from inspiring English sources

He is a relatively cosmopolitan figure.

My father was, for that time, a cosmopolitan figure.

Before, he had been a cosmopolitan figure, fluent in English, German and French, travelling widely in Europe, and representing both England and France at fencing.

By shooting in other countries, Kiarostami became a cosmopolitan figure, underlining how universal his film language was, though slightly diminished away from its roots.

He would doubtless have relished the paradox that such an urbane, cosmopolitan figure is now the front for a regime that in essence owes its power to a feudal monarchy.

But even before he formally takes over as the bank's boss on May 20th, the shooting star has slipped worryingly back towards earth.Unlike the sobersides who have long dominated German banking, Mr Breuer cuts a glamorous, cosmopolitan figure.

All these artists are complex cosmopolitan figures who have not received full-dress attention here.

While Bach's German contemporaries Handel and Telemann were cosmopolitan figures -- Handel had lived in England; Telemann held posts in Frankfurt and Hamburg -- Bach hardly moved outside a provincial region.

At times, the fanfare that accompanied those cosmopolitan figures as they jetted in and out has overshadowed the fact that there is a league here in full swing.

Played by Ken Watanabe, Kuribayashi, who arrives on Iwo Jima with a pearl-handled Colt and fond memories of the years he spent in America before the war, is a dashing, cosmopolitan figure.

Fresh from an early morning appearance on the radio as part of a publicity tour that also takes him to Holland and France, Aswany cuts an urbane figure: cosmopolitan, fluent in Spanish as well as Arabic, French and English, historical examples at his fingertips.