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  • Very suave.†   (source)
  • Altogether there were four brothers-he, Henry, Walter, and Garland-and they epitomized old-time cool: suave, handsome black men who worked hard, drank hard, dressed well, liked fine women and new money.†   (source)
  • Hands clasped in front of him, suavely collegial, Nathaniel tells Snyder that his mentor, Mr. Harry Barnoff, put in forty-six years with the Cleveland Orchestra.†   (source)
  • She didn't know nothing about his little Rico Suave routine.†   (source)
  • Green, a suavely tough little septuagenarian, has an imposing reputation among his peers, who admire his stage craft-a repertoire of actorish gifts that includes a sense of timing acute as a night-club comedian's.†   (source)
  • Luc, so suave and debonair, so steady and strong.†   (source)
  • Principal Jones, suave as always, sporting a dark, tailored suit, today with a sharp, yellow tie, starts with an admonition, chiding the assembled that "our young people have prepared speeches and if you are quiet, they can continue...."†   (source)
  • She stood at parapets and wondered who had worked the stones, shaped these details of the suavest nuance, chevrons and rosettes, urns on balustrades, the classical swags of fruit, the scroll brackets supporting a balcony, and she thought they must have been immigrants, Italian stone carvers probably, unremembered, artists anonymous of the early century, buried in the sky.†   (source)
  • His response lacked dignity, but in fairness to him I admit that I had left him little chance to be suave.†   (source)
  • He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote 'enhanced' when he meant 'increased'.†   (source)
  • Everyone who hadn't gasped when they saw her fangs quit trying to be suave and went ahead and gasped.†   (source)
  • I read this book once, at the Whooton School, that had this very sophisticated, suave, sexy guy in it.†   (source)
  • Suavely suited venture capitalists and fund managers crowded the bar, elbow to elbow with mountaineers, fidgeting in uncharacteristic jackets and ties.†   (source)
  • His manner was aristocratic, his movements dapper and suave.†   (source)
  • As young men will, I did my best to appear suave and sophisticated.†   (source)
  • 'Peace!' said Saruman, and for a fleeting moment his voice was less suave, and a light flickered in his eyes and was gone.†   (source)
  • The eldest judge leaned forward across the table and his voice became suavely derisive: "You speak as if you were fighting for some sort of principle, Mr. Rearden, but what you're actually fighting for is only your property, isn't it?"†   (source)
  • "Oh, but you must," Loki said, still reasonable, suave.†   (source)
  • "I took the liberty of obtaining one for you," Kiever replied suavely; nothing in his voice or his manner indicated that he had done other than negotiate an adequate business arrangement.†   (source)
  • Loathing her father now, loathing his lackey—her husband—almost as much, Sophie would slip by their murmuring shapes in the house hallway as the Professor, suavely tailored in his frock coat, his glamorous graying locks beautifully barbered and fragrant of Kolnischwasser, prepared to sally forth on his morning supplicatory rounds.†   (source)
  • (Suavely) Supposing rumor to be right†   (source)
  • A traffic officer, now in plainclothes, was going to come through on his Big Chance with the suave approach.†   (source)
  • The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but uncommunicative in equal proportion.   (source)
    suave = sophisticated and polite
  • I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.   (source)
    suavity = polite graciousness
  • Last night the Count asked me in the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days, another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at Bistritz.   (source)
    suavest = the most polite and gracious
  • I'd imagined a god who was suave and cool—a movie-star type.†   (source)
  • But I didn't see why Bruce had to pick this moment to be all suave and matinee-idolish.†   (source)
  • She'd just watched Tristan McLean, her cool suave movie star dad, reduced to near insanity.†   (source)
  • He suddenly seemed much older and sure of himself, almost suave.†   (source)
  • I turn and look at her: a well-cut silver-gray suit, pearls, a suave scarf, expensive suede shoes.†   (source)
  • 'Then why pick meningitis?' inquired a major with a suave chuckle.†   (source)
  • Cedric, his cards called, folds the suave-guy hand.†   (source)
  • 'I am a hundred and seven years old,' the old man reminded him suavely.†   (source)
  • Mutely the varied surfaces present themselves: the dusk-rose velvet of the drawn drapes,the gloss of the matching chairs, eighteenth century, the cow's-tongue hush of the tufted Chinese rug on the floor, with its peach-pink peonies, the suave leather of the Commander's chair, the glint of brass on the box beside it.†   (source)
  • Crake was too suave for that.†   (source)
  • The services of children blinded in this way fetched high sums; their touch was so suave and deft, it was said, that under their fingers you could feel the flowers blossoming and the water flowing out of your own skin.†   (source)
  • I read on in a voice of increasing anxiety, through suave M and N, through quirky Q and hard R and the sibilant menaces of S. My father stares into the flames, watching the fields and woods and houses and towns and men and brothers go up in smoke, his bad leg moving by itself like a dog's running in dreams.†   (source)
  • They'd had a leisurely dinner, bantering with the wine steward and then enjoying a brandy at the bar with old acquaintances because there were old acquaintances wherever J. Edgar Hoover went, some who were loyal supporters, others residing in the files, a few who were enemies-for-life but didn't know it yet, and Edgar and Clyde were in a mellow enough mood, despite reports from the site, seated in the plush rear seat in black tie of course and wearing their masks, like a suave and jaunty crime fighter out of the Sunday comics, a master bureaucrat by day who becomes dashing Maskman at night, cruising the streets in formal dress with his trusted right-hand man.†   (source)
  • In my mind's eye I continued to see him gazing into his watch, but now he was joined by another figure; a younger figure, myself; become shrewd, suave and dressed not in somber garments (like his old-fashioned ones) but in a dapper suit of rich material, cut fashionably, like those of the men you saw in magazine ads, the junior executive types in Esquire.†   (source)
  • Very suave, in fact.†   (source)
  • Certainly he would be much better off under somebody suave like General Peckem than he was under somebody boorish and insensitive like General Dreedle, because General Peckem had the discernment, the intelligence and the Ivy League background to appreciate and enjoy him at his full value, although General Peckem had never given the slightest indication that he appreciated or enjoyed him at all.†   (source)
  • The manager and staff carefully explained matters at great length in response to the Rough Tail's suave questions.†   (source)
  • It was quite beyond the bounds of plausibility that that suave and seductive visitor who had so captivated her in Cracow should appear in the flesh only hours after such a dream (duplicating the very face and voice of the dream figure)—when she had not thought of the man or even heard his name spoken in all that time.†   (source)
  • I saw her nostrils narrow, and Lunardi's smile dissolved, his matinee idol suaveness with it.†   (source)
  • I had few opinions about him because I'd never thought much about him, although I had — from time to time — noticed the suavity of his clothes.†   (source)
  • He was examining the last named when he noticed Chang's eyes fixed on him in suave curiosity.†   (source)
  • He looked as if he were enjoying himself and when he spoke there was suave brutality in his voice.†   (source)
  • There was a suave, almost teasing note in his voice and she took heart.†   (source)
  • Even in anger, he was suave and satirical, and whisky usually served to intensify these qualities.†   (source)
  • But there was a difference, for beneath Rhett's seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its suave brutality.†   (source)
  • I had her watch how Romero took the bull away from a fallen horse with his cape, and how he held him with the cape and turned him, smoothly and suavely, never wasting the bull.†   (source)
  • I am not sinuous or suave; I sit among you abrading your softness with my hardness, quenching the silver-grey flickering moth-wing quiver of words with the green spurt of my clear eyes.†   (source)
  • Throughout the first act Orpheus lamented suavely his lost Eurydice, with women in Grecian tunics singing melodious comments on his plight, and love was hymned in alternating strophes.†   (source)
  • In the notseeing and the hardknowing as though in a cave he seemed to see a diminishing row of suavely shaped urns in moonlight, blanched.†   (source)
  • In appearance, dress, and manner he is the apotheosis of the assistant hotel manager, about Chance's age, thin, blond— haired, trim blond moustache, suave, boyish, betraying an instinct for murder only by the ruby-glass studs in his matching cuff-links and tie-clip.†   (source)
  • The sixth Viscount Cronshaw was a man of about fifty, suave in manner, with a handsome, dissolute face.†   (source)
  • And his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage in that very street.†   (source)
  • "Good evening," he remarked suavely.†   (source)
  • Miss Lula!" somewhere behind them, then the boy, deluged as though by a warm wave by a suave turn of carpeted stair and a pendant glitter of chandeliers and a mute gleam of gold frames, heard the swift feet and saw her too, a lady — perhaps he had never seen her like before either — in a gray, smooth gown with lace at the throat and an apron tied at the waist and the sleeves turned back, wiping cake or biscuit dough from her hands with a towel as she came up the hall, looking not at his father at all but at the tracks on the blond rug with an expression of incredulous amazement.†   (source)
  • of plain gray cuff of the soldier or the banded gold of rank, of an army even if not a war of gentlemen, where private and colonel called each other by their given names not as one farmer to another across a halted plow in a field or across a counter in a store laden with calico and cheese and strap oil, but as one man to another above the suave powdered shoulders of women, above the two raised glasses of scuppernong claret or bought champagne; —music, the nightly repetitive last waltz as the days passed and the company waited to move, the brave trivial glitter against a black night not catastrophic but merely background, the perennial last scented spring of youth; and Judith not ther†   (source)
  • Though he wasn't quite sure who I was at first, his smile was all the same suave, but also sick or fatigued.†   (source)
  • Full, clear, with something bland and suave, each note floated through the air like a globe of silver.†   (source)
  • They now moved in a grave and slightly aweinspiring reflected light which was almost as palpable as the khaki would have been which Grimm wished them to wear, wished that they wore, as though each time they returned to the orderly room they dressed themselves anew in suave and austerely splendid scraps of his dream.†   (source)
  • A knife in his shiny boots, a small derringer and three aces up his ruffled sleeve, and suave murder in his heart.†   (source)
  • In the office of the Rogers-Malone Undertaking Establishment the painful family of death was assembled, "Horse" Hines, tilted back in a swivel chair, with his feet thrust out on the broad windowledge, chatted lazily with Mr. C. M. Powell, the suave silent partner.†   (source)
  • Melanie had never seen a man cry and of all men, Rhett, so suave, so mocking, so eternally sure of himself.†   (source)
  • Contemplating the suave indifference with which he generally treated her, Scarlett frequently wondered, but with no real curiosity, why he had married her.†   (source)
  • The president was very suave, for so large and strong and hearty a man.†   (source)
  • —They have only themselves to blame, said Mr Dedalus suavely.†   (source)
  • As far as it was possible for this iron-faced cowboy to be so, he was bland and suave.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it won't do—really it won't," said Holmes suavely.†   (source)
  • Paul entered the faculty room suave and smiling.†   (source)
  • He had soft hands and manners too suave for his years.†   (source)
  • How suave was the counsel of his appearance!†   (source)
  • His voice was suave, smooth, persuasive, cool.†   (source)
  • "It's true, Naab; he's my new foreman," put in Holderness, suavely.†   (source)
  • She was still the victim of his keen eyes, his suave manners, his fine clothes.†   (source)
  • She had been attracted only by hands that were fine and suave, like those of her father.†   (source)
  • "Cleve, my wife, Dandy Dale," he said, suave and cool.†   (source)
  • Had he been suave then and witty, she would not have been greatly interested.†   (source)
  • As he stood there, suavely unconscious, she very nearly screamed out to him,— "Fly, Percy!†   (source)
  • The ambulance was a huge, suave, varnished, white thing.†   (source)
  • "I forgot to inquire," he went on suavely, "as to the nature of your occupation.†   (source)
  • As their suave courtesy smothered him, Martin felt like a footman.†   (source)
  • It took you a long time to get here, but I guess that's just as well," spoke up a smooth, suave voice with a ring in it.†   (source)
  • He was a suave, elderly man who balanced his imposing body, when at rest, upon a large silk umbrella.†   (source)
  • He was a more suave, better spoken youth than Hegglund, though not so attractive as Ratterer, Clyde thought, without the latter's sympathetic outlook, as Clyde saw it.†   (source)
  • A clean-shaved man, with an official manner and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, called on me one day and made inquiries, at first circuitous, afterwards suavely pressing, about what he was pleased to denominate certain 'documents.'†   (source)
  • Perched on his elephant, he watched the Marabar Hills recede, and saw again, as provinces of his kingdom, the grim untidy plain, the frantic and feeble movements of the buckets, the white shrines, the shallow graves, the suave sky, the snake that looked like a tree.†   (source)
  • Evidently he had no desire to terrorize the man, but to conciliate him, for his own purposes, for his manner was pleasant and suave.†   (source)
  • She was for the first time invited up-stairs, and found the suave old woman sewing in a white and mahogany room with a small bed.†   (source)
  • There was Perrin, the suave New Yorker, who had asked him to luncheons at the American Club, there was Casasus, the Spaniard, with whom he usually discussed a mutual friend in spite of the fact that the friend had passed out of his life a dozen years before; there was Muchhause, who always asked him whether he wanted to draw upon his wife's money or his own.†   (source)
  • The smart shopping-district, with rich and quiet light on crystal pendants and furs and suave surfaces of polished wood in velvet-hung reticent windows.†   (source)
  • Not so many hours after this conversation with Edith, Madeline sat with Boyd Harvey upon the grassy promontory overlooking the west, and she listened once again to his suave courtship.†   (source)
  • The suave priest, her uncle, seated in his arm-chair, would hold the page at arm's length, read it smiling and approve of the literary form.†   (source)
  • "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours."†   (source)
  • And at once Jephson replied, most suavely and ingratiatingly: "Under the circumstances, your Honor, I apologize to you and to the attorney for the People and to this jury.†   (source)
  • He almost drawled the words, and he was suave and cool, and his face was inscrutable, but a bitterness in his tone gave the lie to all he said and looked.†   (source)
  • "I much regret, fair lady," he said in his most suave tones, "that circumstances, over which I have no control, compel me to leave you here for the moment.†   (source)
  • I supple and suave.†   (source)
  • If you're so afraid of what your uncle might think or do in case we get married," she added nervously and yet suavely, "why couldn't we get married right away and then keep it a secret for a while—as long as we could, or as long as you thought we ought to," she added shrewdly.†   (source)
  • She recalled that Don Carlos had been presented to her, and that she had not liked his dark, striking face with its bold, prominent, glittering eyes and sinister lines; and she had not liked his suave, sweet, insinuating voice or his subtle manner, with its slow bows and gestures.†   (source)
  • He's no tougher than—he's a lot better than the financiers who cover up their stuff by being suave...Poor devil!†   (source)
  • —We hope, Dixon said suavely, that it was not of the kind known to science as a PAULO POST FUTURUM.†   (source)
  • "But you know," proceeded Jephson, most suavely and diplomatically at this point, "there are various references in these letters here which Miss Alden wrote you"—and he reached over and from the district attorney's table picked up the original letters of Roberta and weighed them solemnly in his hand—"to a plan which you two had in connection with this trip—or at least that she seemed to think you had.†   (source)
  • Dixon said suavely.†   (source)
  • Because he loved her and also was fond of her, he was annoyed when she was less sleek, less suave, than the women he encountered at Angus Duer's.†   (source)
  • Ross McGurk was at the time a man of fifty-four, second generation of California railroad men; a graduate of Yale; big, suave, dignified, cheerful, unscrupulous.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan shuddered to the marrow at hearing this suave creature reproach him, with that sharp voice which she took such pains to conceal in conversation, for not having killed a man whom he had seen load her with kindnesses.†   (source)
  • He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde answered with suave concision that he thought as ill of them as possible, that they were going from bad to worse, and that the age was rotten to its core.†   (source)
  • To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave.†   (source)
  • "You must understand, Mr. Karamazov, that it is of vital importance for us to know," said Nikolay Parfenovitch, softly and suavely.†   (source)
  • When she knelt on her Gothic prie-Dieu, she addressed to the Lord the same suave words that she had murmured formerly to her lover in the outpourings of adultery.†   (source)
  • The query, delivered with much suavity, only stung the youth to further sharpness.†   (source)
  • When I read my old Literary Supplement articles, I lay the blame for their suavity, their politeness, their sidelong approach, to my tea-table training.†   (source)
  • He leans toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, and speaks with a mocking suavity.†   (source)
  • The question, so practical and uncompromising, broke through the crust of suavity to find no sure foothold beneath.†   (source)
  • LADY BRITOMART [turning with ominous suavity to Cusins] Adolphus: you are a professor of Greek.†   (source)
  • We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.†   (source)
  • "Pray sit down, Mr. Garth," continued the banker, in his suavest tone.†   (source)
  • [He goes into the house with unruffled suavity]†   (source)
  • 'Come, Nandy!' said he, with great suavity.†   (source)
  • Miss Flite acquiesced with the greatest suavity.†   (source)
  • If anything could have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity.†   (source)
  • I am glad to hear it," said Dr. Minchin, with mingled suavity and surprise.†   (source)
  • as for the rest, everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light.†   (source)
  • Indeed it was—Sir William Bradshaw's motor car; low, powerful, grey with plain initials' interlocked on the panel, as if the pomps of heraldry were incongruous, this man being the ghostly helper, the priest of science; and, as the motor car was grey, so to match its sober suavity, grey furs, silver grey rugs were heaped in it, to keep her ladyship warm while she waited.†   (source)
  • He had, with the finesse and tact and suavity of a diplomat, removed himself from obligation, and the detachment of self, the casual thing be apparently made out of his magnificent championship, was bewildering and humiliating to Bo.†   (source)
  • [coming to her mother's right hand with threatening suavity] Well, mamma darling, you seem to be having a delightful chat with Jack†   (source)
  • But presently thinking of Sondra and all that she represented, and then of Roberta, the dark personality would as suddenly and swiftly return and with amplified suavity and subtlety.†   (source)
  • Monte Cristo on the contrary, preserved a graceful suavity of demeanor, aided by a certain degree of simplicity he could assume at pleasure, and thus possessed the advantage.†   (source)
  • She must learn to feel that she had been mistaken with regard to both; that she had been unfairly influenced by appearances in each; that because Captain Wentworth's manners had not suited her own ideas, she had been too quick in suspecting them to indicate a character of dangerous impetuosity; and that because Mr Elliot's manners had precisely pleased her in their propriety and correctness, their general politeness and suavity, she had been too quick in receiving them as the certain result of the most correct opinions and well-regulated mind.†   (source)
  • She approached Miss Nancy with much primness, and said, with a slow, treble suavity— "Niece, I hope I see you well in health."†   (source)
  • "I think we shall be able to help each other," said the person with great suavity: "and shall have no need of Mr. Bowls's kind services.†   (source)
  • Owing to Mr. Adolph's systematic arrangements, when St. Clare turned round from paying the hackman, there was nobody in view but Mr. Adolph himself, conspicuous in satin vest, gold guard-chain, and white pants, and bowing with inexpressible grace and suavity.†   (source)
  • She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.†   (source)
  • Fervently hoping that he would get out before she did, Amy utterly ignored the basket at her feet, and congratulating herself that she had on her new traveling dress, returned the young man's greeting with her usual suavity and spirit.†   (source)
  • The gentleness and suavity of his manners rendered him extremely popular; besides this, the women soon discovered that he had taste.†   (source)
  • M.Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority.†   (source)
  • 'Couldn't you wish to be married to him yourself, if that was the case?' inquired Mrs Browdie, with great suavity of manner.†   (source)
  • I would take him myself, but—' 'There is a little business where he would be most useful—in the South,' said Lurgan, with peculiar suavity, dropping his heavy blued eyelids.†   (source)
  • "Extremely honoured, I am sure," said our poor hostess with the greatest suavity, "by this visit from the wards in Jarndyce.†   (source)
  • I may add, too, that Henry has talent—' 'Which Edmund certainly has not,' said Mrs Merdle, with the greatest suavity.†   (source)
  • No poor, simple, virtuous body was ever cajoled by the attentions of an electioneering politician with more ease than Aunt Chloe was won over by Master Sam's suavities; and if he had been the prodigal son himself, he could not have been overwhelmed with more maternal bountifulness; and he soon found himself seated, happy and glorious, over a large tin pan, containing a sort of olla podrida of all that had appeared on the table for two or three days past.†   (source)
  • He was admitted; when he made an offer of his hand, with much suavity, together with his "amis beeg and leet', his père, his mere and his sucreboosh."†   (source)
  • Which there's not a man alive more ready to do, for you're a man of urbanity and suavity, you know, and you've got the sort of heart that can feel for another.†   (source)
  • His universal suavity was less an instinct of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist apertures made by drops of water.†   (source)
  • Here are all suavities and charms of love.†   (source)
  • Wasn't I handsome enough, suave enough, desirable enough?†   (source)
  • Atlas' daughter it is who holds Odysseus captive,
    luckless man—despite his tears, forever trying
    to spellbind his heart with suave, seductive words
    and wipe all thought of Ithaca from his mind.†   (source)
  • He launched in at once, endearing, sly and suave:
    "Here I am at your mercy, princess—
    are you a goddess or a mortal?†   (source)
  • Staunch Odysseus glowed with joy to hear all this—
    his wife's trickery luring gifts from her suitors now,
    enchanting their hearts with suave seductive words
    but all the while with something else in mind.†   (source)
  • Miss Douce, engaging, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering.†   (source)
  • George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a lydiahand.†   (source)
  • One English observer, Sidney Low, puts the chief blame for the general explosiveness of American upon the immigrant, who must be communicated with in the plainest words available, and is not socially worthy of the suavity of circumlocution anyhow.†   (source)
  • Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
    The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
    The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers
    and judges broad at the back-top,
    The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved
    blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
    The pure, extravagant, yearning, questionin†   (source)
  • "True," said Don Quixote, "and for that reason those who are not of noble origin should take care that the dignity of the office they hold he accompanied by a gentle suavity, which wisely managed will save them from the sneers of malice that no station escapes.†   (source)
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