He, too, cut a rakish figure, slim, young and sharply dressed in a houndstooth check jacket and black tie, his hair in a high pompadour.

Yet he still cuts the rakish figure of his youth, when he swept into Washington as an emissary from the world of high academia.

"We're leaving," Philip announced, taking Anne's arm and steering her toward the captain, whose rakish figure blocked the head of the stairs.

The rayhunter Angelfire Flirt, like most vessels of its type, cut a mean and rakish figure at sea.

Picard, in a jerkin and trousers of mixed off-brown colors, topped with a long cloak and a silly-looking hat, cut almost a rakish figure.

What a rakish figure did I cut.

While Mayor Giordano cut a rakish figure in his sharply tailored suits and slicked-back hair, Michael Joseph Jarjura is perhaps the essence of understatement.

Mace was an inspiring figure, tall, handsome and rakish, the very fabric of legend.

Onstage he cuts a rakish figure: long-limbed, angular and refreshingly spontaneous.

He cut a rakish figure and sang boldly and deftly, managing to echo Ms. Larmore's roulades in their Act I duet without embarrassment.