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Tom Lehrer – The Hunting Song This is the anti-Seeger, earthy sentimentality replaced by sardonic urbaneness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010

Says he: "Our goal is to offer our customer the essence of urbaneness and taste."

From Time Magazine Archive

And Hazlitt, though he is very readable, has neither the urbaneness, nor the science, nor the learning, nor the wide grasp of life and of history that characterizes the three above-named.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

And this has perhaps given to the eighteenth century an urbaneness from which its predecessor was largely free.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

But can anyone say that the members of the government—the bureau chiefs frequently fare even worse—meet in the parliamentary debates with that urbaneness of demeanor which characterizes our best society?

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno