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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

Two men are entranced by her, a suave doctor played by David Niven and Richard Conte’s impulsive race-car driver.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

We note how the small scale, finely drawn swirls of her sleeve are challenged by the suave oval of her face and the emphatic line of her shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

He was more charming, more suave than ever, saying things to make everyone laugh.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

But when he spoke, his words were as precise, his phrases as concise as Mr. Dillon's suaver ones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gray days made only a suaver magic, thunderstorms a madder enchantment, about her eyrie.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

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 listened attentively to the young man's desires, and answered in suavest of tones.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie