"Suavity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spent after the convention have chipped the suavity from his countenance, and have written upon the bland, complacent face all the cynicism of his nature. Triumph makes cynicism arrogant, so the man is losing his mask. His nature is leering out of his eyes, snarling out of his mouth, and where the little, lean lines ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... exceed the simple suavity with which the Cardinal appeared, approached, and greeted them. He thanked Apollonia for her permission to pay his respects to her, which he had long wished to do; and then they were all presented, and he said exactly the right thing ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... growing more and more excited. Had he been a keener observer he would have seen that under Brent's suavity there ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... sweat from his forehead. His lips were working nervously. All suavity and polish were gone now; there were only viciousness and fear, each struggling with the other for the mastery in ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... that a more maddening letter could not have been written. Its civility seemed to him to be disagreeable suavity; its failure to particularize the points he made to be a disgraceful evasion; and the liberty it took in generalizing his case to ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various
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