suavities

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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither the suavities of Carteret nor the intrigues of Walpole had any chance against the set opposition which met them.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

I had great admiration for the suavities and graces of life, but it is beyond any human capacity to endure what society imposes upon many in America.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

She yearned to give him what he had never had,—pleasure, joy, the soft suavities of life, what she had had always.

From Together by Herrick, Robert