In Porter's adaptation, Carringford is a sophisticated urbanite and Rodney is a simple farmer.

Now these Chinese are sophisticated urbanites, not suntanned yokels who've never seen cars before-they'll get out of your way if you drive fast and honk your horn.

The cheerful, unpretentious pleasure Faiers evidently took in his work is affecting, but there's something ultimately silly about the idea of the sophisticated urbanite trying to get in touch with his inner shaman.

Back in San Diego proper, a few restaurants not in hotels have developed the requisite design-to-food ratio to meet the masses of sophisticated urbanites living in new loft developments.

And unlike at most bars, patrons face one another, making for the kind of forced interactions that Mr. Starck delights in foisting upon the sophisticated urbanites who frequent his spaces.

There is something ultimately silly, though, about the idea of the sophisticated urbanite getting in touch with his inner shaman (Johnson).

At the same time, a class of sophisticated urbanites has taken notice, especially after gasoline prices soared past $3 a gallon in September.

NBC, a unit of the General Electric Company, is peddling a Saturday night of three melodramas about the paranormal meant to appeal to sophisticated urbanites.

In her singing engagements, she performed dressed as a sophisticated urbanite while talking like a rural Southerner.

Hotel-condos raise the bar for the sophisticated urbanite, said Pete de Leuw, a partner in 1000 First Avenue.