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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

Eager to make himself something more than an awkward kid with sweaty palms and a bowl haircut who couldn’t read, Newsom mimicked Remington Steele, the suave character on the popular 1980s detective show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

In addition, Mr. Denton’s delivery ranges from pugnacious to hostile and in contrast to all the suave vampires around him, Guy is a consistently unpleasant human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

“Then why pick meningitis ?” inquired a major with a suave chuckle.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

He is suaver, smarter, more conservative than most union executives.

From Time Magazine Archive

A suaver, defter rascal I have never set eyes on.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

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

When the writer-director James Gunn is asked how he likes his steak, I am pretty sure he flashes on “Pulp Fiction” and, summoning up John Travolta at his suavest, says “Bloody as hell.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

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

He uncovered and in his suavest tones inquired if a brunette young woman lived there and if she would like a nosegay of yellow violets.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene