Sentence examples for faire of from inspiring English sources

Females are in heat only for a few days a year; males have the savoir faire of pimply prom dates.

Most descriptions of Mrs. McClelland suggest the savoir faire of Auntie Mame crossed with the sagacity of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle — as illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

There is plenty of art to see now in the nation's capital, but three exhibitions stand out: Bill Traylor's iconic drawings, Dawoud Bey's haunting portraits and the savoir faire of Senegalese women.

And days before the flight of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the Tunisian president, Michèle Alliot-Marie, the foreign minister, clumsily offered the "savoir faire" of France's security forces to its former protectorate, albeit to avoid endangering protesters' lives.The doctrine that explains all this, the government said this week, is "the principle of non-interference".

Through alternative food chains, the typicality of products and the savoir faire of the farmers – representing the two main factors of products' added value – are endorsed and more easily communicated to the market.

And while Los Angeles might not have the international fashion faire of New York or Milan, L.A. Fashion Weekend this season will be twice what it was, says Mikey Koffman, the event's founder and producer.

And despite the Italianate grace and Continental savoir-faire of his songs, Mr. Conte is at heart an American vaudevillian.

While antitrust policy across the Atlantic has veered between the activism of the Clinton administration and the relative laissez-faire of the Bush years, it has shown consistency.

He remains an economist of laissez-faire, of more than usual significance in foreshadowing the ameliorative program which so soon became a center of Interest.

Cohn was eager to take every opportunity to improve the cultural savoir-faire of his young charges, and bounded over to one table full of cadets, gesturing upward.

Mr. Boyd's hero lacks the psychological detail and taut existentialism of Mr. Craig's Bond, and he lacks the tough savoir-faire of Mr. Connery's.