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suave

[swahv] / swɑv /


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Later, when Bond is whisked to Vietnam, the orchestra swells with suave panache, immersing you in the action before 007 has even uttered a quip.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

We note how the small scale, finely drawn swirls of her sleeve are challenged by the suave oval of her face and the emphatic line of her shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"I just love the quicksilver delivery and suave flamboyance of Coward, it's delightful to play."

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

Eager to make himself something more than an awkward kid with sweaty palms and a bowl haircut who couldn’t read, Newsom mimicked Remington Steele, the suave character on the popular 1980s detective show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

I peer inside to see Poe fast asleep on his bed, curled into a surprisingly tiny ball underneath his plaid comforter, a suave Gordon Ramsay poster, positioned directly over his bed, keeping watch over him.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

Clearly, he hasn’t kept up with Seattle hip-hop’s experimental guiding light Ishmael Butler, who at 54, has only gotten suaver with age.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

The conductor Marek Janowski also charted the transition from a lively sound in the prologue to a suaver, more sumptuous one, moving with nimble energy throughout.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

While those performances are sometimes a bit more strait-laced expressively than today's much suaver period-instrument bands, there is a wonderfully uncomplicated directness about the singing and playing that is always fully engaged.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013

At least you will discover that Louisianans have more fun being miserable, and accomplish it in suaver style, than Minnesotans do.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And yet honour and life are of some importance at your age," replied the abbe, visibly irritated, but feigning a suaver manner than ever.

From Mauprat by Stanley Young

Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Having used Tilda Swinton in that movie, as the suavest of bloodsuckers, he redeploys her here as a Buddha-worshipping, sword-swiping mortician named Zelda Winston.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019

Moore recalled that when he took his young son Geoffrey to lunch one afternoon in the early 1970s, he endured an interrogation that would rattle even the suavest super-spy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2017

Hugh Jackman has revealed he would “seriously consider” playing the world’s suavest spy, James Bond, if asked.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2015

Apparently, Miss Bluebell was not in the suavest of humours, for she flung her hat on to one crazy chair, and herself on another, with a vehemence that caused a sensible concussion.

From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston




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