suavities

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Over Charity's shoulder and through the spray of the goura on her hat he saw Kedzie sharp and stark, her suavities of line and the milk-smooth fabric of her envelope.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

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 Herrick, Robert