But what made him so magnetic was that his knowing air was often mixed with the appearance of pitiable unhealthiness and discomfort.
But they keep themselves resolutely out of the picture and, instead, maintain a quietly knowing air of superiority to benighted subjects who haven't seen the political light.
Eventually, our turn arose and we sat down with a knowing air, cultivated by hours of grueling research, or Googling, as it is sometimes called.
Of Leonard Cohen, the Canadian doomsday poet whose songs she brought to widespread attention: "He had that charm, that glint in his eyes, that secretly knowing air that always attracted me to the dangerous ones".
The constant underlining of characters and situations — robust, rag-tag heroic themes for the Rebels, or monumental, ominous music for Darth Vader and the Empire — has a playful obviousness, a knowing air.
The show is steeped in a classically Gallic whimsy, the knowing air of innocence associated with Marcel Marceau's mime and Jacques Demy's movies, that non-Francophiles are often allergic to.
At twenty-one, he was a member of the first post-Communist generation, and he had the lankiness and the complexion of an adolescent combined with the knowing air of a street hustler.
The situation may sound hokey, but this canny novel, which takes its knowing air from David L. Koral's translation from the French, evokes suffocating feelings of dread for its appealing protagonist, who has not let her infirmities dim her intelligence or her sardonic sense of humor.
360 has a gleaming surface and a knowing air, but essentially it reflects (and this is something hinted at in an accompanying note by Morgan) the lives of people who spend too much time in planes and confuse the ennui induced by jet lag with authentic Weltschmerz.
