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debonaire

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Luke, it turns out, is supposed to be getting engaged, to the sweet and sensible Jill (Kendrick) but when reckless Kate's own relationship, to the debonaire, Merlot-swilling Chris Ron Livingstonn), rather predictably fails, the possibility of Luke and Kate finally getting together looms large.

As time passed, whenever Mr. Everett (who became a minor film star) returned to the theater, he continued to portray much the same person, but in a state of arrested development, like the drug-addicted, mother-fixated son in Noël Coward's "Vortex" (1989) or a debonaire middle-aged but boyish Charles Condomine in Coward's "Blithe Spirit," on Broadway two years ago.

[New York Post] Hugues Akassy, a debonaire homeless man on trial for rape, claimed that the sex that led to the charges was consensual.

Based on the Kyril Bonfiglioli novels about a dandyish and debonaire English art dealer, David Koepp's comedy landed in ninth place on debut with just $4.1m.

In fact the wife wasn't there, but if you're making a movie and the wife's not there, you wonder why she's not in the scene... There's a moment where he - Jean-Do - says: "Now I'd like to remember myself when I was debonaire, devilishly handsome".

Well, listen here: while you were retweeting the heck out of Blunt's debonaire quips, he was quietly shifting 20 million albums.

Skullduggery is suave and debonaire.

When a 53-year-old Sean Connery resurrected the role of James Bond in 1983 after a 12-year break, even the title of the movie in which the debonaire Scotsman strapped on his Walther PPK and took on the forces of Spectre one last time seemed to hint at the project's questionable nature.

Rex Harrison would have turned a hundred on March 5; MOMA is doing a centennial celebration, and in this week's issue, Anthony Lane salutes one of the classics in the series, the 1948 comedy "Unfaithfully Yours," written and directed by Preston Sturges, in which the debonaire Englishman plays a jealous orchestra conductor.

Soon Jenny is busy, too, fending off the advances of Martha's husband, Dick Robert Dawss); a debonaire local millionaire, Julian Hughh Bonneville and Patrickck's colleague and roommate, Graham Ian Driverr).

Henredon, a company known more for classic styling than for marketing gimmicks, introduced Debonaire, a $5,775 striated beige couch with a matching silk shawl — to be worn by the sofa — for $390.

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