How To Use suavity In A Sentence
- suavity," steals its way into the heart, so her interest in him was aroused by a certain subdued melancholy which is rarely without distinction, and never without charm. My Novel — Volume 10
- But suavity alone can't save an album unduly swamped with crassness and slush. Times, Sunday Times
- The redeeming qualities of the Meccan are his courage, his bonhommie, his manly suavity of manners, his fiery sense of honour, his strong family affections, his near approach to what we call patriotism, and his general knowledge: the reproach of extreme ignorance which Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- Mrs. Mullarkey agreed, with that suavity which is, after her untidiness, her distinguishing characteristic; but notwithstanding this arrangement we break our fast sometimes at nine forty, sometimes at nine twenty, sometimes at nine, but never earlier. Penelope's Irish Experiences
- Full of twitches and double takes, he manages to undermine his usual screen assuredness enough to carry off moments of great hilarity without ever compromising his suavity.
- Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar. NYT > Home Page
- They are remarkable for vigorous conceptions and strong feelings, which they express with very little attention to softness and suavity of language.
- Yet what Arnold perceived to be the weaknesses of Clough's poetry are precisely what, over time, have come to seem its strengths: a prosey colloquiality which at times verges on awkwardness, a preference for honesty and sarcasm over suavity and tact, a direct criticism of modern life, a naming of things as themselves. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
- It's great fun to see Mr. Willis's swings between minimalist comedy and maximalist action, or Mr. Freeman's combination of suavity and warmth. 'Red' Alert: Old Stars Fire Up Thriller
- 'No: I don't; and that is the advantage of not knowing any language but my own,' complacently replied Matilda, who considered all study but that of art as time wasted, and made her small store of French answer admirably by talking very loud and fast, and saying, '_Oui, oui, oui_,' on all occasions with much gesticulation, and bows and smiles of great suavity and sweetness. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag