Modifies a noun

• authority: He was always well informed and brought an urbane authority to everything he did.

• man: Here is an urbane, erudite man, more likely to throw karma around the dressing room than teacups.

• style: Stephen Bold, with his slick, urbane style of bass guitar playing became an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in February 2001.

• self: Rafael Benítez was his usual urbane self afterward, declaring Sofia gave " the sensation of danger without creating clear-cut chances " .

• city: There is certainly conflict between the exclusivity of the night-time economy of youth culture and the dream of the urbane 24-hour city.

• wit: Under her design, however, Wire consolidates its growing aura of urbane wit, sophistication and cosmopolitan hybridity.

Modifying Another Word

• so: Mitchel McLaughlin, usually so urbane and relaxed, is showing the strain, like his coarser colleague, Alex Maskey.