urbane 的定义
- having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
- reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression:He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.
urbane 近义词
civilized
更多urbane例句
- The show’s most urban, if not urbane, artworks are Pam Frederick’s “It’s in the Cards” collages, constructed from photographs of fortuneteller shops in Washington and New Orleans.
- Slight beer belly and a measured voice, intelligent and urbane.
- Grant says that a modern-day Jackie Kennedy, worldly and urbane, would have embraced the influences of various cultures in today’s America.
- He is, by all accounts, brilliant; a dashing, urbane go-getter who exudes charm.
- And menswear designer Michael Bastian created a world of gentlemen farmers and urbane dandies.
- The year 2011 was particularly tough for the usually gracious and urbane president.
- He's weird-looking, with a not very urbane, sentimental aesthetic; he's backed by a neighborhood bar band.
- He was a light-hearted but serious and civilized man—urbane, to use an old-fashioned word.
- Surely it is not urbane to throw on another the burden of saying that he likes not the smell or the inhaling of burning tobacco.
- His name and paper, has a respectable credit, even among the urbane denizens of Wall street.
- I would sit on the Liberal benches and watch him, and listen to his urbane voice, fascinated by him.
- In New York, then, you are met everywhere by a sort of urbane familiarity.
- The urbane storeman saved the situation by inquiring of the cook: "What will you have for lunch?"