Cosmopolite

Generalization 5-14, however, refers to cosmopolite channel usage, rather than to cosmopolite behavior in general. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

"Cosmopolitanism is nonsense; the cosmopolite is a cipher, worse than a cipher; outside of nationality there is neither art, nor truth, nor life; there is nothing." ❋ Unknown (1912)

"He's what's called a cosmopolite," Isabel suggested. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Hawthorne posed the problem of being an artist in America most sharply because he was not a "cosmopolite" man of letters but intensely and exclusively a writer of fiction, which was what James felt he must make of himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maskat of Afghan parents, and brought up at Meccah, he was a kind of cosmopolite, speaking five languages fluently, and full of reminiscences of toil and travel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sherringham winced at being dubbed a "cosmopolite" by his young entertainer, just as he had winced a moment before at hearing himself lumped in esoteric knowledge with Dashwood and Gabriel Nash; but the former of these gentlemen took no account of his sensibility while he enumerated a few of the elements of the "basic." ❋ Henry James (1879)

I have at long last been exposed as a "rootless cosmopolite." ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be denounced as a rootless cosmopolite in the very home of another notorious rootless cosmopolite carries its additional sting: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Harvard-educated Internet entrepreneur and cosmopolite Alex Vik and his wife, Carrie, set out to conjure up a comprehensive personal vision here that involves ranch life, sports, and luxury; a genuine sense of place; and a reach for something universal. ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)

Even Washington Irving, the complete cosmopolite who spent long years abroad, returned to write his five-volume biography of his namesake, America's first president. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though McGreevy was an Irish nationalist and a devout Catholic, and Beckett an agnostic cosmopolite, the two rarely allowed politics or religion to come between them. ❋ Coetzee, J.M. (2009)

Nixon barely could, but Nixon was a dazzling cosmopolite next to Reagan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Within the year, Hitler tells us, he had turned from “a feeble cosmopolite” into “a fanatical anti-Semite” Mein Kampf, 18. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am not a writer, nor an artist, nor a cosmopolite. ❋ Doyle (2009)

This interest in new ideas leads them out of a local circle of peer networks and into more cosmopolite social relationships. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

The cosmopolite innovator was too innovative to serve as an appropriate role model for the other thirty-seven superintendents; they waited to adopt until the three opinion leaders in the six-member clique favored the innovation. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

Generalization 8-5: When interpersonal diffusion networks are heterophilous, followers seek opinion leaders who are more cosmopolite. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

[in terms of] definition c) mentioned above, a person can [very well] be a cosmopolite and still live in [the countryside] ❋ Sexydimma (2013)

[Oh my gosh], those [gay guys] are so cosmopolitical. ❋ Inner-circle (2010)

Ben spends so much time [debating] with [JSA] and reading the Wall Street Journal. Jumped right onto the cosmopolitics [bandwagon]. ❋ Rabid Devize (2006)