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
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 Rupert Hughes
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
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
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
