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cosmopolis
Wiktionary
n. An important city, such as a capital city, inhabited by people from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 681
Land area (2000): 1.396290 sq. miles (3.616375 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.146765 sq. miles (0.380120 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.543055 sq. miles (3.996495 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14870
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.955352 N, 123.773176 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98537
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Cosmopolis
Wikipedia
Cosmópolis is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 66,807 (2015 est.) in an area of 154.67 km². The elevation is 652 m.
Cosmopolis is Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel. It was published by Scribner on April 14, 2003.
Cosmopolis may refer to:
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Cosmopolis (novel), a 2003 novel by Don DeLillo
- Cosmopolis (film), a 2012 film by David Cronenberg based on the DeLillo novel
- Cosmopolis, an 1892 novel by Paul Bourget
- Cosmopolis, Washington, a city in the United States
- Cosmopolis XXI, a planned Russian vehicle that is billed as a space tourism vehicle
- Cosmópolis, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
- Cosmopolis, the fictional city in which the TV series Mission Hill is set
- Cosmopolis, a musical work by Elias Breeskin
- Cosmopolis, a fictional universe-wide magazine employed by novelist Jack Vance
- Cosmopolis, an album by Polish music band Brygada Kryzys
- Cosmopolis: A Literary Review, a defunct multilingual literary magazine published in London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg from 1896 to 1898
- Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, a book by Stephen Toulmin
Cosmopolis is a 2012 Canadian-French-Italian-Portuguese coproduced drama- thriller film written, produced, and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson in the lead with Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Jay Baruchel and Kevin Durand. It is based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. On 25 May 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, drawing mixed early critical reactions. The film was released in Canada on 8 June 2012, and began a limited release in the United States on 17 August 2012 by eOne Films. It is Cronenberg's first foray into script writing since 1999's eXistenZ.
Usage examples of "cosmopolis".
The Hotel Cosmopolis was his own private, personal property, and the thing dearest to him in the world, after his daughter Lucille.
He prided himself on the fact that his hotel was not like other New York hotels, which were run by impersonal companies and shareholders and boards of directors, and consequently lacked the paternal touch which made the Cosmopolis what it was.
Daniel Brewster sat in his luxurious suite at the Cosmopolis, smoking one of his admirable cigars and chatting with his old friend, Professor Binstead.
His educated taste in Art was one of the things which went to make the Cosmopolis different from and superior to other New York hotels.
He had the Cosmopolis, his first-born, a summer hotel in the mountains, purchased in the previous year, and he was toying with the idea of running over to England and putting up another in London.
And this in spite of the fact that Archie, as early as the third morning of his stay, had gone to him and in the most frank and manly way had withdrawn his criticism of the Hotel Cosmopolis, giving it as his considered opinion that the Hotel Cosmopolis on closer inspection appeared to be a good egg, one of the best and brightest, and a bit of all right.
Peter might, as the Press-agent had stated, be a great scout, but was his little Garden of Eden on the fifth floor of the Cosmopolis Hotel likely to be improved by the advent of even the most amiable and winsome of serpents?
Hotel Cosmopolis, Archie, looking about him and revising earlier judgments, was inclined to think that of all his immediate circle he most admired Parker, the lean, grave valet of Mr.
He decided to postpone the affecting meeting of brothers-in-law to a more convenient season, and made his way to his favourite table at the Cosmopolis grill-room for a bite of lunch preliminary to the fatigues of the sale.
It was about a week later that Lucille came into the suite at the Hotel Cosmopolis that was her home, and found Archie lying on the couch, smoking a refreshing pipe after the labours of the day.
He sedulously avoided his love-lorn relative, and it was with a sinking feeling one day that, looking over his shoulder as he sat in the Cosmopolis grill-room preparatory to ordering lunch, he perceived Bill bearing down upon him, obviously resolved upon joining his meal.
There are, no doubt, restaurants where this sort of thing would have excited little comment, but the Cosmopolis was not one of them.
His presence in the lobby supplied a personal touch to the Cosmopolis which other New York hotels lacked, and it undeniably made the girl at the book-stall extraordinarily civil to her clients, which was all to the good.
As if Destiny were suiting her plans to his, one of the first persons he saw as he entered the lobby of the Cosmopolis was the long boy.
Archie one afternoon some weeks after the episode of Washy, in his suite at the Hotel Cosmopolis, where he was cementing with cigarettes and pleasant conversation his renewed friendship with Wilson Hymack, whom he had first met in the neighbourhood of Armentieres during the war.