savoir vivre
Example Sentences
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A career journalist whose wit, flair and savoir vivre became personal trademarks, Bauby saw his fast-paced life come to an abrupt end on Dec. 8, 1995, with the stroke that left him paralyzed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, he himself personally was the kind of man that women take to—cultured, travelled, well-bred, and full of savoir vivre.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
Kielland, on the contrary, as inherently, has throughout unmistakably an air of savoir vivre, in the long run much surer in its appeal to us outside of Norway because of its more general intelligibility.
From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland
Here the tact and savoir vivre of Chillingly Gordon came to the rescue of the host.
From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Over and around them flowed the smooth current of Parisian savoir vivre which they could not hope to understand, still less to emulate.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
