savoir faire
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The Spanish champions have the experience, the savoir faire, the heritage, the money time mentality and the talent.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024
Selections went from fine French bottlings to show American savoir faire toward U.S. labels as domestic wines improved in quality and stature.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2020
James, pillow-lipped and constitutionally ebullient, never manages to play a convincing mouse, and Hammer signifies his savoir faire by smoking cigarettes and dispensing clipped orders to underlings.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2020
It conveys immediacy, material reality, improvisation as well as flamboyance and glamour, savoir faire.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018
Were he to be guilty of such want of savoir faire he would inevitably incur some penalty kick or other.
From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho
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