cosmopolis

[ koz-mop-uh-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an internationally important city inhabited by many different peoples reflecting a great variety of cultures, attitudes, etc.

cosmopolis

/ kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs /

1890–95; cosmo- + -polis, modeled on metropolis

C19: see cosmo- , polis ¹

Speaking of Cronenberg, you once said that making Cosmopolis “reinvigorated” your “ideas about acting.”

The Cosmopolis protestors go a step beyond their real-world forebears.

In Cosmopolis, Packer Capital uses complex fractal modeling, based on patterns in nature, to map data in the markets.

The yuan gambit is the first clue that Cosmopolis deals with a parallel financial universe.

“Cosmopolis,” the David Cronenberg film starring Robert Pattinson, is a disquieting look at a twisted Wall Street.

The city, too, was coming to be recognized as an embryonic cosmopolis.

Was not this great Cosmopolis, this dragon of a thousand talons kind as well as cruel?

The great evening had come, and every one in Cosmopolis Castle was agog with excitement.

What is Berlin but a brutalised village, or Paris now but cosmopolis, or Rome but a universe?

Moreover, turn to the chapter on Prague in "New Cosmopolis," and you will find out in what highland his heart really is.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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