Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (died 1575)

But there is little doubt that Jesse Jackson Jr. is smooth and smart, speaking in an urbane hip-hop style, mixing "What's up?"

As Sir, Thomas Ruisinger appears caught between an urbane style and a condescending one.

He addressed his first book of Epistles to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight.

The consensus on Fred Astaire as a singer holds that his urbane style makes up for his limited voice.

An originator of urbane postwar American style, Norell, who died in 1972, would distinguish himself as a designer whose clothes never let a woman look out of place.

By contrast Mr. Jennings's urbane style tamped down the melodrama and brought Apollonian reason to his reports.

This poem marked the appearance of Shelley's "urbane style".

Charanga is an urbane Cuban style, with a violin section providing riffs and harmony while a solo flute darts between vocal lines.

The latter's use of overall symmetry, blind arches, fanlights and smooth brick greatly influenced Benjamin, who would help spread the urbane Federal style into the countryside.