suavity

Even then, I understood that the sedulous life and inclination of the archaeologist were ill-suited to movie-spy suavity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Those dudes are trying to play the sinister “ugly American” roles, although with a singular lack of suavity and not much success.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

“Parmi veder le lagrime” oozed with self-regarding longing, and “La donna è mobile” had the suavity of someone who doesn’t need to showboat.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

His filmmaking is often noted for its surgical precision, a cliché that aptly evokes the discipline of his narrative construction and the suavity of his compositions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2022

I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

She yearned to give him what he had never had,—pleasure, joy, the soft suavities of life, what she had had always.

From Together by Robert Herrick

She was charmed by the spirit of the place, constrained by its suggestion of fair observances, high decencies, and social suavities.

From The Helpmate by May Sinclair

The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.

From New Grub Street by George Gissing

Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various