What is "suave"

Usage examples of "suave".

I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.

As I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.

The bus was packed, and as much as Lowrie put on the pathetic old-man face, he looked too suave in the new suit for anyone to offer him a seat.

The sheriff was all unacclimated to the suave altruism of fashionable circles.

She tried to think of the bargain that was being made with Yves in order to examine its risks and test it for flaws, but her thoughts soon slipped away from that, and away from the memory of shadows and a fall, away from the mixed vision of herringbone cobbles and a quaint child lifting a brightly striped mallet into the innocent air, away from the hard silver chill of a pair of scissors in her own hand and her ignorant scuffle with Yves at the drawingroom door, away from her wakening from a dream of truth into a nightmare of false reality, away from all those disasters into a new consoling dream: a dream of gOillg away to become somehow suave, experienced, independent, admired, highly placed, and then returning returning witty and worldly, equal to anything, elegant in black with pearls and a fur piece and a smart hat.

The suave, immaculately clad clubman was with Harvey Willis in the room where Henry Marchand had died.

Nor did the child recoil any longer from the ugly task which milor, with suave speech and tender voice, was so ardently seeking to impose on her.

In portraiture he was often beyond criticism, giving the realistic representation with dignity, an elevated spirit, and a suave brush.

It is difficult in English, with its relatively meager stock of rhymes and its weight of consonants, to render completely the disarming grace of this reproach to fair-weather friends, the suave cadence, the delicate strophic scheme that embodies his appeal to the countess and, through her, to his familiars in hall, in tournament and war.

Balfour, still suave, effortless, unaddicted to political dogma, refused to take a firm position, partly because he saw no firm ground on which to take one and partly because he believed a strategy of steering between extremes was the best way to hold his party together and his Government in office.

Two months after Ed Thomas met his end in a delicate dance of death with 30,000 pounds of rolling doom, on the fateful night of December 10, 1942, while having dinner at the Brown Derby, Clete Reet dining with the suave William Powell and the delightful Myrna Loy, with dancer extraordinaire Fred Astaire and the incomparable Ginger Rogers suddenly sat bolt upright in his chair and swallowed his tongue, whereafter he swallowed his teeth, his lips, his chin, his nose, the remainder of his face and skull, his neck complete with wing collar and black tuxedo tie, his shoulders, both arms, then his torso, his hips, his legs, and his feet, shoes and all, until nothing remained of him but a toothless red pulsing orifice.

But Dolley sensed that the suave ease of manner masked a profound uneasiness.

He had a very clear picture in his mind of suave, dark, blue-eyed gentlemen in white silk suits and French sunglasses passing canvas bags that rustled to somewhat rougher-looking people in drophead Bentleys by the light of the desert moon.

Now he had startling proof that Otto Muller and the suave Julius Hankey were the same man!

Curling with an intricate aimlessness curiously like that of such a streamer, it tantalized the silvery fingers of a thousand relays, saucily evaded the glances of ten thousand electric eyes, impishly darted down a narrow black alleyway of memory banks, and, reaching the center of the cube, suddenly emerged into a small room where a suave fat man in shorts sat drinking beer.