suaveness

Its signature suaveness is intact, and it still has some memorable art moments.

There was a suaveness, an assured air about him that seemed preternaturally embodied in his actions.

They create, in effect, a sultanate of suaveness.

"Okay, Doris," he said with an effort at suaveness, as if they were now on a first-name basis and growing closer by the moment.

The genteel pleasures of maturity, erudition and suaveness all have a place in pop.

But such a theme requires more lyrical suaveness."

"Not at all," Oslett said, impressed by the man's suaveness and efficiency.

"They took him for his suaveness."

But as hip-hop matured, it began to aspire to the poise and suaveness of rhythm-and-blues.

Marcus blurted, astonished out of suaveness.

And they carry it all off with a good-natured suaveness that showcases their polish and generosity of spirit.

"The suaveness," he said, "isn't born of confidence: it's born of fright."

"His social suaveness...his empathy for the idiosyncrasies of other people made him quickly establish friendly relationships."

Sam Tsoutsouvas's Mr. Martin is the ultimate in suaveness.

It is known before of its specie as "Matalag", which means men and women alike to go for its aroma and suaveness.

Bond aficionados said he lacked the ineffable insouciance and suaveness (not to mention the dark hair and 6-foot-plus physique) of Bond.

I turned around to thank my rescuer, who shrugged his shoulders and extended his palms with the suaveness of Marcello Mastroianni.

'Don't put it that way,' her husband's voice was soft, cultured to the point of suaveness, 'Executive-style residences, my dear.

The last, in Mr. Cronenberg's vision, is so monstrous that it actually involves monsters, albeit monsters of exceptional suaveness and insight.

Mr. Cudahy exalts "swankness, suaveness and strangeness" and exhorts the neophyte to "be fabulous."

Mr. Dutoit mirrored his soloist's refined style to perfection, underplaying Haydn's hearty brusqueness in favor of a still-appropriate suaveness.

"When I swear to Comyn," said Beltran with silken suaveness, "my Honor Guard shall give up those weapons into the hands of my promised wife."

For all his suaveness there's a streak of violence and passion in the man that might have cropped out but for his infernal indolence and blase indifference."

The D.J.'s also asked that the outside of the case look identical to Zero's trademark briefcases - the better to give themselves an air of mystery and suaveness.

Van Hunt brought a vulnerable streak to the fundamentals of 1970's soul - groove, flirtation, desire, suaveness and swagger - at Joe's Pub on Thursday night.