savoir vivre
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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
The Assembly, in fact, was more a school of Parliamentary savoir vivre for its members, than a body in which the people could take any interest.
From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Marx, Karl
He is continually railing at our English want of savoir vivre, yet is himself an example of the ill-breeding which he reprobates.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria
Competent learning, general cultivation, absolute probity, accuracy of general view, human sympathy and technical capacity—how many things are necessary to the critic, without reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrase-making!
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Irene did not possess the least savoir vivre.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Lermina, Jules
