Urbane and dapper, 45-year-old Najib was once aligned with Anwar, but past history will mean little.
Educated, urbane and charming, 56-year-old Sopheap is not the kind of Khmer Rouge most people know.
With such a pedigree, Mr Achleitner is already being tipped to succeed Allianz's urbane chairman, Henning Schulte-Noelle.
The cultural opposite of the colorful rogues behind Industry, the formally dressed Roski comes across as urbane and mannered.
Mr Bush found the urbane European an agreeable contrast to his Texas circle.
Though he is urbane and good on television, Mr Chung has lost ground by failing to spell out his policies.
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For all his urbane charm, and willingness to cite poetry and sing songs, President Jiang remains head of a nasty regime.
One yearns for Rukeyser's urbane way of puncturing such unsubstantiated, pretentious pessimism.
He's an urbane, well spoken, fiercely inquiring man, with a successful business.
Protected by diplomatic immunity, he remains an urbane presence at the U.N.
Urbane, brainy and funny, he seemed the embodiment of Poland's hoped-for future.
They see him more as an urbane, city-bred interloper, parachuting into the "other India", commiserating with the poor, and then returning to Delhi.
If the rewards are not always where you expect to find them, that only adds to the stimulation of an urbane and original book.
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Guardiola, with his 14 major trophies in five years, is the urbane architect of the world's most stylish team, a custodian of tiki-taka soccer.
The city's newest eatery, the decor is urbane, chic, and clad in white, while glass walls and ceilings permit bountiful natural light and views of the surrounding garden.
One of them, Bulent Arinc, an urbane lawyer, says he will stand against Mr Kutan who is backed by Mr Erbakan at a party congress due next spring.
"Alwi Shihab may speak English and Arabic very well, " a political analyst says of the urbane new Foreign Minister, a former professor of comparative religion at Harvard.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.
Inder Kumar Gujral, is an urbane, upright and self-assured politician.
In this remarkably accomplished book, Penelope Hughes-Hallett takes Haydon at his word, and sets out to persuade us that these few hours of urbane chat were indeed significant.
Hannibal Lecter is both repellent and attractive, urbane and deranged.
Back in Davos the urbane Monti put a positive spin on his setbacks, saying the court decisions came at an ideal time, since he was restructuring his office anyway.
It is hard to know whether this ambition was in earnest at the time or simply the fallback position of a hyper-urbane young person with a mild case of disaffection.
Was there anyone who was anyone in the world of high politics, arts and literature whom Spender, charming, gentle and urbane from first to last, did not meet over dinner?
So western diplomats are touting a next-best option, with Turkey's urbane foreign minister, Ismail Cem, a member of Ecevit's party, taking the helm and Mr Dervis still running the economy.
Hepburn's role in the film version turned the actress into an icon and role model for young women who fantasized about moving to New York to live the same freewheeling, urbane lifestyle.
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