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Later, when Bond is whisked to Vietnam, the orchestra swells with suave panache, immersing you in the action before 007 has even uttered a quip.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

"I just love the quicksilver delivery and suave flamboyance of Coward, it's delightful to play."

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

While Ahmadinejad was dressed in “vintage, early 1980s” clothes, Larijani came from “the opposite end of the sartorial spectrum: suave, wearing a carefully pressed Ralph Lauren polo shirt,” Straw wrote in his memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Leaning back in his chair, in a suave, all-beige outfit, he starts to grin while recounting his day in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

I turn and look at her: a well-cut silver-gray suit, pearls, a suave scarf, expensive suede shoes.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Clearly, he hasn’t kept up with Seattle hip-hop’s experimental guiding light Ishmael Butler, who at 54, has only gotten suaver with age.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

The conductor Marek Janowski also charted the transition from a lively sound in the prologue to a suaver, more sumptuous one, moving with nimble energy throughout.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

While those performances are sometimes a bit more strait-laced expressively than today's much suaver period-instrument bands, there is a wonderfully uncomplicated directness about the singing and playing that is always fully engaged.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013

Others may be suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And yet honour and life are of some importance at your age," replied the abbe, visibly irritated, but feigning a suaver manner than ever.

From Mauprat by Stanley Young

Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Having used Tilda Swinton in that movie, as the suavest of bloodsuckers, he redeploys her here as a Buddha-worshipping, sword-swiping mortician named Zelda Winston.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019

Moore recalled that when he took his young son Geoffrey to lunch one afternoon in the early 1970s, he endured an interrogation that would rattle even the suavest super-spy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2017

Sanders, Hollywood’s suavest cad of the 1940s, typically delivered his lines with a silken, self-satisfied purr and was much appreciated by Sirk for his sense of supercilious irony.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

"Pray sit down, Mr. Garth," continued the banker, in his suavest tone.

From Middlemarch by George Eliot