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In a recent video, he leans suavely against a bar at a Las Vegas tech trade show, telling a woman he is on the “revenue side of strategic pipeline development.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Within moments of their meeting in 1950 in New York City, he bursts suavely into song — some presumptuous romantic blather about the two of them together under “a chapel of stars.”

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2023

He moved things along quickly, surely and suavely.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

His female bodies are weighted and tactile but also suavely elongated, powerfully compressed and cropped to create a sense of expansion beyond the frame.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

“I am a hundred and seven years old,” the old man reminded him suavely.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller