Bon -- (playboy)

Usage examples of vivant.

Under these circumstances Bedaux was no longer the charming bon vivant.

Vivant, Chateaubriand avait pour lui tous les critiques, petits et grands.

Senator, Herm had taken a different tack than that of his predecessor, Lew Alton, and cunningly played at being a bon vivant, a pleasant fellow who could be bought occasionally.

In short, the cardinal was a man of wit, and what is called a bon vivant.

It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.

But her husband, who is a garmentdistrict executive, sure looks like a bon vivant.

I know he is a bon vivant because while she was away buying a diet soda, he put my card in the pocket of his beach jacket and said, I cant do anything here, but Ill call you when I get back to New York.

Pitt didn't feel like a Good Samaritan and even less like a bon vivant as he punched out the numbers on the phone.

Hazel d'Ark, pirate, clonelegger and bon vivant, strode scowling through the dimly lit steel corridors and wished she was somewhere else.

Dumas was a bon vivant who did everything out in the open, to the great enjoyment and shock of all those around him.

But unlike the exotic beauties who hung on fiction's bon vivant master spy, Toshie possessed a high order of intellectual ability.

One moment he was a well-dressed bon vivant, the next an animated corpse.

Willie was now a man of the world, a bon vivant, as he ordered ham and eggs from the pretty waitress of The Elite Restaurant on Broadway.

Kantor the monologist, Kantor the financier, Kantor the bon vivant waving his silver-headed walking stick.

The only light came from a few small crude pottery lamps, but it was sufficient for me to see, not only the traces of paint on the walls, but the tableau vivant before me.