How To Use Suavity In A Sentence
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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
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But suavity alone can't save an album unduly swamped with crassness and slush.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar.
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They are remarkable for vigorous conceptions and strong feelings, which they express with very little attention to softness and suavity of language.
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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.
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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
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'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
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His bright, trumpeting voice and exciting high notes were tempered by a sunny suavity.
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Air yer rheumatics mendin 'enny? "he demanded, with the condolent suavity of the would-be son-in-law, or grand-son-in-law, as the case may be.
The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895
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Their music, generally set for unaccompanied four-voice chorus, lacks the melodic and harmonic suavity of European music of the time.
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All the old naffness and hushed suavity of grand hotel dining rooms still lurks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The play is a bit faded now and its dialogue unsteadily scintillating, but it still displays the suavity and sophistication that are Coward's trademarks.
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Yet both retain clear classical outlines, oozing the sweet suavity that is his hallmark.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a talent for telling blatant lies with angelic suavity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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You know the word suavity exists, and you plan to use it in every sentence you speak for the rest of your life - even if it's just whispering it seductively at the end of them like
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And if there was something in the exquisite sweetness of Leonard's voice, look, and manner, which the countess acknowledged to attain that perfection in high breeding, which, under the name of "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 — Complete
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For all its modern, atonal, chic suavity, the variety of ingredients in combination were limited, the flavours cloddish.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work itself is effectively a dialogue between piano and orchestra rather than a contest, permitting Abbado to show off the poise and grace of the woodwind – there were some wonderfully honed solos here – and the suavity of the strings.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
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Only a wine of suavity, complexity and yet understated ambition could do him justice.
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It's a movement full of goofy stumbles, miles away from the suavity of Mozart and Classicism.
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A certain nobleness in the details, the exquisite cleanliness of the furniture, and a perfect concord of men and things, all brought the word "suavity" to the lips.
The Commission in Lunacy
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He gets away with it because he delivers his poetic lines with such wonderfully battered suavity.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a top-quality wine that even a modest year shines through with good fruit and suavity.
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I don't believe I have ever heard this arduous role sung with such lyrical beauty, tonal suavity.
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Recovering his equanimity, with the ease and suavity which is usual with him in all company, Mr. Bennett was about to address the intruder, when he perceived that what he had taken for the gentleman in black was nothing more than a frightened orang-outang.
Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
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It was easy for me to overlook his excessive suavity of speech and super-courtesy of social mannerism.
CHAPTER X
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If I had Bill Bryson's wit and epigrammatic suavity and his ability to make each datum ripple seamlessly into the next.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
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One of the things I adore about Jet Li is the way he often plays this terrifically competent martial arts expert who at the same time retains a sense of innocence and humility and a sometimes comedic lack of suavity around attractive women (this movie includes a mother-daughter team of thieves, so you can be sure there is some comedy).
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