savoir vivre
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A career journalist whose wit, flair and savoir vivre became personal trademarks, Bauby saw his fast-paced life come to an abrupt end on Dec. 8, 1995, with the stroke that left him paralyzed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is continually railing at our English want of savoir vivre, yet is himself an example of the ill-breeding which he reprobates.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria
Kielland, on the contrary, as inherently, has throughout unmistakably an air of savoir vivre, in the long run much surer in its appeal to us outside of Norway because of its more general intelligibility.
From Skipper Worse by Kielland, Alexander Lange
Neither the British nor the Americans are distinguished for that natural politeness and savoir vivre, which is to be found more or less in all other civilised countries.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Competent learning, general cultivation, absolute probity, accuracy of general view, human sympathy, and technical capacity,--how many things are necessary to the critic, without reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrasemaking!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
