Sentence examples for virtual metropolis from inspiring English sources
They check their personal pages on MySpace, that virtual metropolis where unknown bands and comedians and writers can achieve global renown in a matter of days, if not hours, carried along by rolling cascades of popularity.
"The great airports are already the suburbs of an invisible world capital," wrote Ballard, "a virtual metropolis whose fauborgs are named Heathrow, Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Nagoya, a centripetal city whose population forever circles its notional centre, and will never need to gain access to its dark heart".
But the virtual metropolis's true strength becomes apparent when looking a little closer.
As your population grows you'll see an increasing number of people wandering around your town, and you'll gradually gain access to new, more impressive looking buildings that will help you evolve your town into a virtual metropolis.
The only thing that isn't monochrome in the video is our protagonist, a fractured waxy 3D model of the singer that stumbles through a desert wasteland on through an abandoned virtual metropolis.
Satellite television has created a sense of belonging to, and participation in, a kind of virtual Arab metropolis.
In recent days, foreign journalists have been astonished and bewildered at how China's authoritarian rulers have managed to transform a usually bustling metropolis of 6 million inhabitants into a virtual ghost town to guarantee a trouble-free summit.
3. Thriving little metropolises... (metropoli?).
The virtual weeks flitted past and the city began to take shape, no longer the haunt of a few birds, shrews, and conifers but a proper metropolis, with discrete residential, commercial, and industrial districts.
His metropolis avoided Rust Belt rot.
