suavity

Mr. Washington, star of Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” has one of the richer roles, as the tech overlord who with supple suavity plays upon his friends’ weaknesses and sensitivities to achieve his ends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

Motifs were given expansive statements, then were cut up and brought back with edge and suavity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

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

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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

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

From New Grub Street by George Gissing

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 James Huneker

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

From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens