What's the difference between metrosexual and urban?

Metrosexual


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And so, from "stylish metrosexual" Warne we move seamlessly to Piers Morgan.
  • (2) But when I saw photos of Shane on his way to play golf looking like a model from a 50s catalogue, and when I saw that he'd been described by the Daily Mail as "a smartly dressed metrosexual" – a phrase as ominous from the Daily Mail as "brutally honest" or "plain speaking" – I knew my help was needed.
  • (3) He has pointed to the rise of the "metrosexual male", with David Beckham as its standard bearer, as evidence that masculinity is becoming unfashionable and "traditional male values, such as courage, risk-taking and singlemindedness can be seen as dysfunctional".
  • (4) Meanwhile, and a propos of nothing, a word on the The Last Taboo : Loaf around London or any major city in these metrosexual times and it won't be long before you see men doing things that would have outraged, or at least baffled, their forefathers.
  • (5) He is not just a Notting Hill metrosexual: he also hails from that home counties green Tory tradition that first gave us an Environment Department under the Heath government.
  • (6) He mended his own clothes and, like today's metrosexual, did his share of the housework.
  • (7) The metrosexual threw caution to the wind and started carrying his moisturiser round in his manbag; the lumbersexual now serves us up a hypermasculine aesthetic with an unashamedly ironic grin.
  • (8) Photograph: HBO Feilding: The detective work between Patrick and Kevin shows just how awkward and difficult it can be in this post-gay metrosexual world to determine if a guy is gay or straight.
  • (9) Perhaps you are expecting the standard American complaints against football: calling it futball , the frantic running, players crying (everyone knows there's no crying in baseball), the aggressive metrosexuality, the low scores, France's participation and, of course, games that simply end in ties.
  • (10) Heartthrobs are called heartthrobs for a reason Ryan Gosling’s best actor speech saw peak metrosexual pin-up this year: losing nominees Ryan Reynolds and Andrew Garfield shared a snog, while Gosling further confirmed his dreaminess at the podium.
  • (11) Though there have been many rumblings about the rise of men's style before – particularly during the 1990s, when the term metrosexual gained traction – current trends suggest something more substantial.
  • (12) ‘Mincing’ down the runway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Though Key said he enjoyed getting in touch with his “metrosexual side” at the time , he later admitted his cringeworthy catwalk display of rugby World Cup merchandise was “probably a bit stupid”.
  • (13) A " West Coast metrosexual ", said our state's own land commissioner. "
  • (14) Not about skinning kangaroos for elegant metrosexual accessories.
  • (15) "I think [David] Beckham's important in all of this, because he's so gay-friendly, he is metrosexual – if one of his boys was gay, it's no big deal.
  • (16) There's his gentleness, too: the new man, the metrosexual, the doting dad.
  • (17) Metrosexuality was refreshing because it came at a time when men were struggling to be identified solely by their ability to change a spare tyre, assemble flat-pack furniture or drink a pint of Guinness without the overwhelming urge to be sick in a bush.
  • (18) Johnston said: "Metrosexuality was more to do with an attitude.
  • (19) Instead, this so-called reaction to the unashamedly feminine metrosexual seems to me all about playing with gender stereotypes.

Urban


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
  • (a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
  • (4) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (5) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
  • (6) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (7) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
  • (8) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
  • (9) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (10) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
  • (11) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.
  • (12) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
  • (13) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (14) 58% of the urban population has access to drinking water.
  • (15) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
  • (16) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
  • (17) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (18) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (19) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (20) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.