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Example sentences for "cosmopolitanism"

Lexicographically close words:
cosmography; cosmological; cosmologies; cosmology; cosmopolitan; cosmopolite; cosmos; coss; cosset; cosseted
  1. Thus the United States, in a quarter of a century, has assumed a cosmopolitanism in which the early German and Irish immigrants appear as veteran Americans.

  2. He is the one solitary example of cosmopolitanism in art, for there is nothing in his pictures to show that they come from the north, the south, the east, or the west.

  3. There is no such thing as cosmopolitanism in art?

  4. Facilities for foreign travel, international exhibitions, and cosmopolitanism have helped to keep artists of all countries in a ferment of uncertainty regarding even the first principles of their art.

  5. Under the pressure of injury from without, cosmopolitanism must contract itself into patriotism.

  6. If our own country stood as a solitary champion of right against a world in unrighteous arms, patriotism would be a synonym for religion, and cosmopolitanism for sin.

  7. It really is, in another form, the old controversy between cosmopolitanism and patriotism.

  8. Because the majority of Chinese at that time favored cosmopolitanism and said nothing about nationalism.

  9. After the class struggle of the nations had been done with, the time for the consideration of cosmopolitanism would have arrived.

  10. His vigorous denunciation of Utopian cosmopolitanism prevents his being considered an internationalist.

  11. Any attempt to foster cosmopolitanism before solving the national problem was not only Utopian but perverse.

  12. He held, briefly, that the Chinese had, at the noon-day glory of their Empire, fallen under the lure of a cosmopolitanism which was not in accord with the realities of political existence.

  13. During the nineteenth century economic development has given an enormous impetus to international movements and cosmopolitanism generally.

  14. The thinkers and dreamers of Germany, stung at last into a sense of political reality, awoke from their dreams of cosmopolitanism and devoted their powers to the needs of the German nation.

  15. To the mind of Bogrov, only two ways promised an escape from this hell: the way of cosmopolitanism and rationalism, opening up into humanity at large, or the way leading into the midst of the Russian nation.

  16. But a little later his cosmopolitanism displayed a distinct propensity toward Russification.

  17. Yet by the curious paradox of her climate, which compels much indoor night entertainment, reinforced by that cosmopolitanism of atmosphere, life there is city life raised to the highest limit.

  18. IV The deeper interest in the expression of national qualities and in the representation of provincial peculiarities is to-day accompanied by an increasing cosmopolitanism which seems to be casting down the barriers of race and of language.

  19. With all his wisdom Goethe failed to perceive that cosmopolitanism is a sorry thing when it is not the final expression of patriotism.

  20. The cosmopolitanism of Marseilles is lively and varied, that of Port Saïd ragged and picturesque, but that of Algiers is brilliantly complicated.

  21. Nothing less than a progress from insularity to cosmopolitanism is the social enterprise in which the upper classes led the way, and in which those who are always ready to imitate their example have followed them.

  22. Side by side with these official spies was the secret service; bound to grow in proportion to the increase among the former, implying a certain cosmopolitanism in its members, which, again, implies touring.

  23. The workman's International movement will finally break the flow towards cosmopolitanism and world-assimilation, and suddenly in a crash the world will fly back into intense separations.

  24. Certainly a reaction is setting in, away from the old universality, back, away from cosmopolitanism and internationalism.

  25. The Stoics, for example, enunciated the great principle of human brotherhood; they made use of the cosmopolitanism and individualism of the Hellenistic age in order to arouse a new interest in man as man.

  26. With the cosmopolitanism thus produced there went naturally a new individualism, which extended into the religious sphere.

  27. Cosmopolitanism brought mighty changes in religion, as in the political sphere.

  28. But this world, with such a danger of wars, would be better after all than a certain kind of cosmopolitanism in a world such as, for example, might be arranged by an unintelligent socialism.

  29. The kind of cosmopolitanism and internationalism that demands the final abrogation of the sentiment of patriotism is, as we have intimated, a rationalistic doctrine.

  30. Patriotism and internationalism or cosmopolitanism are two opposites.

  31. The cosmopolitanism of the Russian novelist partly accounts for the international effect and influence of his novels.

  32. The Cosmopolitanism of the Russian character is a striking feature.

  33. By becoming strong--instead of extinct under alien colonial rule--the Chinese state could lead the world back to the old pacific cosmopolitanism of Eastern Asia.

  34. He urged a return to cosmopolitanism through nationalism.

  35. A new sense of cosmopolitanism arose in place of the old civic or national patriotism.

  36. Cosmopolitanism does not mean the end of all things.

  37. And the cosmopolitanism of the streets is still more marked.

  38. Fifth avenue thrusts its cosmopolitanism upon you, not alone in her shops, with their wonderfully varied offerings, but in the very humans who tread her pavements.

  39. At the edge of Chinatown slopes Portsmouth square and here the cosmopolitanism of San Francisco reaches its high apex.

  40. You study them with all that you know of their origin and their heredity, and little by little beneath the varnish of cosmopolitanism you discover their race, irresistible, indestructible race!

  41. As for that cosmopolitanism for which you censure him, we do not agree there; it is just that which interests me in him.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmopolitanism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    breadth; generalization; internationalism; sophistication; style; universality