suavities

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He did not attract the world of women by elaborate brutalities, or charm it by silly suavities.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

I had great admiration for the suavities and graces of life, but it is beyond any human capacity to endure what society imposes upon many in America.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

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 Sinclair, May

I hoped, however, like the foolish inexperienced old bachelor I am, that her feminine asperity would be tempered by the suavities of married life.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James