It was a certainty, a complete and utter awareness of one fact: the entire metropolis was geared to destroy him.

But an emerging school of thought, the City Beautiful movement, tried to place architecture in the esthetic context of the entire metropolis.

And I should know - my family, you remember, were the Operation, or anyway what the Operation can become when it runs an entire metropolis.

Really, sir, I see I must lock you up forthwith before you depopulate the entire metropolis.

In the movie's most visually striking sequences, buildings shift, and the entire metropolis heaves into a different configuration.

The metropolises have governments that span the gamut from democracies to dictatorships; "Metropolitan" is used as a title for powerful individuals who rule entire metropolises.

In Ron Herron's "Walking City," also of 1964, the entire metropolis moved about on gigantic, retractable legs.

"We can't police the entire metropolis," Aiah says.

When the mysterious armies who had invaded from the north and northwest pulled out, they left the entire metropolis aflame.

For New Yorkers, the prospect may well be the suburbanization of the shoreline, if not the entire metropolis.