raffishness

So much for history, but the raffishness still persists.

The raffishness of life there appealed to me at that age.”

A step up in raffishness from a two- or three-button sport coat, it says you took the time to change after work.

Let's say I was prone to a certain amount of raffishness which would have been frowned upon by my more sober colleagues.

But even those potentially repelled by the in-jokes and raffishness may go along.

An air of ancient neglect about the town, making French raffishness look positively house-proud.

Some called the lab, with its eau-de-darkroom raffishness, home.

Their raffishness is so intensive that achieving it is almost a full-time job.

Brooklyn has always occupied a special place in the imagination of American writers who have been captivated by its raffishness.

He connects these stories while retaining the drama and without flattening the bubbly raffishness.

Another element to him that should not go unmentioned is his raffishness, or his air of disreputability.

"It doesn't have the raffishness, the attitude or the aura that you find downtown or in Chelsea.

For history and character Mr. Carey connects the two (as others have) to a fundamental raffishness.

IN many minds, all of West 42d Street whirs with a nonstop raffishness.

He laughed with a debonair raffishness.

It was a touch of raffishness in a town that's being obliterated under an onslaught of "antique" shops.

But raffishness, Mr. Trebot notes, gives way to pragmatism.

However, as time passes, the ingratiating aspects of his stance are emphasized; the sea-dog raffishness wears a little thin.

She was hoping to echo that raffishness in her collection, which could benefit, she thought, from a series of scarcely perceptible tweaks.

Helen Mirren would be a classic Jaguar with its twin scents of maturity and raffishness.

However, after much research in the London Library, Coventry contends that any raffishness would uphold the block's traditions.

But Mr. McAnally was equally adept at portraying raffishness.

(Those who like the Wild East raffishness of the place, of course, say "thank God" to that.)

He was a handsome, swarthy fellow, with a certain raffishness of air which, whilst stamping him, was not altogether unprepossessing.

Gambling gave Macao an air of raffishness, and a reputation, often deserved, as a refuge for shady characters and deals of every stripe.