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
All this was said in a tone of braggadocio, meant to be exceedingly telling, but it only made Charlie feel that he loathed this swaggering little boy with his premature savoir vivre, more and more.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
"But you know you cannot get that fine savoir vivre before."
From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis
Their intellectual tastes were unusually fine and delicate; they were moved by emotions which could only be felt by men of taste and savoir vivre.
From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole
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
