Sentence examples for rakish from inspiring English sources

It is conceived as a series of big boxes jammed together at rakish angles, dipping and diving from 14 to 22 metres in height as it stretches along the highway.

Silver helmet, sometimes worn at a rakish angle when the heat and humidity made it slip off his head.

Under Mr Estrada, a former matinee idol with a rakish moustache and a winning grin, Filipino politics began to resemble the sort of swashbuckling movie he used to star in: plenty of drama and injustice, culminating in an almighty dust-up (in the form of the popular protests that toppled him).

ARTISTS have often been celebrated for their rakish ways, but it is investors in art who these days are living dangerously.

Cary Grant, as sketched by Mr Hirschfeld, has one eyebrow raised and the other lowered, the image almost impossibly rakish.

Americans were more scathing about his rakish behaviour: a serial philanderer, Yerkes cheated repeatedly on both his wives and on Miss Grigsby.

All of them made their mark, though none is a household name today not even Rose Heilbron (pictured), one of the first female barristers to be appointed King's Counsel, beloved by the press for the rakish angle of her wig.Heilbron was clever, and pretty too, immaculately painted and pencilled.

As Yelena, the seductive young wife of a pompous older professor, Ms Blanchett bewitches both the sad-sack Vanya (Richard Roxburgh) and the rakish doctor Astrov (Hugo Weaving).

Evolution has thus arranged things so that if a woman does cuckold her man, she is likely to gain the maximum advantage in terms of children with good immune systems, and sons who will have similarly rakish good looks and behaviour.

Valmont, the rakish lover in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", never had to cover his tracks after sending a letter of seduction "To all staff" by mistake, or break into the IT department at night to try and erase old e-mails from his computer's hard drive.

It is written with all the verve one would expect of a man of Prince Sapieha's rakish charm.