By the middle of the fourteenth century they had family histories that boasted of aristocratic, urbane accomplishments.
Yet he proves to be far from the urbane wealthy gentleman they were expecting.
In effect, an urbane, classically educated political dissident had to imagine and try to articulate convincingly the mental world of an uneducated, provincial soldier.
Could such diminutive places really sustain the kind of urbane life expected by the leisured classes?
In societies recently transformed by rural-urban migration, hopes, desires, and fantasies are resolutely urbane; there is little scope for ruraloriented romanticism.
This urbane composer was never particularly credited with profundity, yet the work is one of his most profound and certainly most extended utterances.
The presumably urban/urbane officer in the third-grade text is ignorant of the custom, and the twenty-year-old recruit cannot explain his painted hands.
Mainline churches, whose members and clergy are generally the best educated and most urbane, object theologically to many of the traits enumerated above.
