His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."

That suits this urbane comedy, which examines the amour-propre and existential worries of a pair of worldly strangers on a train.

Even in his most urbane comedies, Mr. Stone - a former broadcast journalist and the son of a history teacher - struggled to pack in the historical details that so fascinated him.

Miss Dunne chose her vehicles with great care and won even greater popularity in effervescent and urbane madcap comedies.

Life in Coward's urbane comedies of manners (as opposed to his more sentimental and patriotic plays in which the middle and lower classes figure) can be divided into those who have it and those who do not.

She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC.

These are minor objections, however, about a production that so expertly fills a vacuum on Broadway: the urbane comedy.

Such are the sophisticated pleasures of urbane comedy according to Clare Boothe Luce.

"Curfew" is a political novel that is also an urbane comedy of manners, a love story, a fairy tale, a thriller, a lyric evocation of landscapes.

This satirical strand of the plot is urbane and slightly dated comedy, 1920's Evelyn Waugh or 1950's Anthony Powell.