Sentence examples for urbane man from inspiring English sources

This urban, urbane man, who died last March at 96, might be called a rootless cosmopolitan, were he not so rooted in the movies and theater of the 1930s.

He is a rural entrepreneur rather than a farmer, an urban and urbane man, a thinker and a joker.

A clever and urbane man like Purnell would surely not make such a crass, distasteful and obviously wrong comparison.

Edward Shevardnadze, now Georgia's president and formerly the Soviet Union's foreign minister, is easily the most urbane man at the dinner.

"Boyfriend" seemed wrong for an urbane man of forty-five who carefully slipped off his wedding ring before he touched me.

Mr. Plimpton, a lanky, urbane man possessed of boundless energy and perpetual bonhomie, became, in 1953, the first (and principal) editor of The Paris Review.

Since his urbane, man-of-the-world charm, subtle wit and sophisticated insights into the modern predicament did not strike me as the sort of virtues that leave most adolescents "obsessed," I sat down to hear the case of this unusual girl.

These slight and urbane men lionized the physical courage and erotic adventure of rough Hollywood heroes in movies that they loved — but those roughhouse movies were far from being all that they loved.

"Such an urbane, witty man, the opposite of the Crocodile Dundee cliche".

Probably both for Cuyp, an urbane public man and a churchgoing Protestant.

His name is changed to Platt and this urbane family man is told both to forget his identity and his skills.