rakishness

In fact, a certain amount of male rakishness often added to a prominent man's allure.

It has to do with the intensity of his blue eyes and a certain inextinguishable rakishness.

He straightened, all trace of his rakishness put aside.

The combination of the daughter's disdain and the father's rakishness drives Anne to a tragic end.

This official biography shows how he progressed from youthful rakishness to a religious but still questioning existence.

For all of his rakishness and buoyancy, the governor is, at his core, an ambitious man.

And Olivia, Hayden marked, was not angered by this rakishness.

It added a certain rakishness to his straight-arrow image, and accented his eyes.

There is a flounce to them and a rakishness to the men who woo them on bended knee.

The hint of rakishness deepened.

Even with its rather straight-lined, sharp-edged styling, the car has a certain rakishness and projects the image of the driver as an elegant rogue.

Fox was famed for his rakishness and his drinking; vices which were both indulged frequently and immoderately.

The sheath of her skirt veiled the full rakishness of the position, but shadowy outlines and indentations outlined it only too distinctly even so.

His rakishness is more transparent to us than to Helen, and his decline is as sad as the promising Branwell's.

Elegant with a touch of rakishness, it has archetypal pre-war sports coachwork, in scarlet, with huge front wings that sweep into wide running boards.

All had a certain rakishness and wry humor in their mien, and yet all went under that curious compulsion that is the younger brother of fear.

In a more straightforward vein, Mr. Pine plays Astrov with the rakishness of a younger Jason Robards.

Film-noir rakishness, rippling minimalism and a touch of late-night blues merge in John Lurie's music for the Lounge Lizards.

And if his casting is an obvious joke, it is nonetheless a good one, thanks to his devilish combination of high-spirited rakishness and old-school gallantry.

But such men could never wear--can barely stomach--headgear with the inelegance, the laddishness, the rakishness, the nerve of a baseball cap, especially one worn backward.

The sedate Miss Dunne's official thaw in light comedy (opposite the game Melvyn Douglas) followed some "Show Boat" rakishness.

As she approached and looked up, Dalgliesh saw a pale, finely lined and delicately boned face almost eclipsed by a black wide-brimmed trilby worn with a certain rakishness.

The Canadian-born Mr. Plummer, who portrays Henry Drummond (based on Clarence Darrow), exudes a rarefied rakishness.

There was a rakishness in that face which set it at odds with what both Genevieve and Arbuthnot had said of Angus Stonefield, but not of his brother Caleb.