Sentence examples for rakishness from inspiring English sources

Full marks for rakishness.

But while Melville toned down his rakishness in "Léon Morin," Mr. Belmondo's sexual magnetism is still very much part of this discreetly sensual film, which describes the evolving relationship between a young widow (Emmanuelle Riva) and a parish priest in a provincial town in Vichy France.

He has that slightly off-centre rakishness perfect for our Leo".

It's hard to disentwine the singer from the song: though Chicago was 30 years old when Sinatra recorded it, his is the version everyone knows, and it endowed the city with an indelible rakishness.

More liberal than that on the question of drink is m'learned colleague Nicholas Lezard's Bitter Experience Has Taught Me (Faber), a snortingly funny memoir of fortysomething literary penury and rakishness, which is also in its way a treatise of modern manners.

There is a flounce to them and a rakishness to the men who woo them on bended knee.

Mr. Affleck fires up a Camel Light with an elbow-cocked rakishness that William Powell might envy.

Beneath a business-trim, Clinton-silver hairpiece (its transformative power on his famously bald pate is an astonishment), he has abandoned his ordinarily kingly authority for the rakishness of a spoiled prince, mischievously bawdy in a hospital gown.

And if his casting is an obvious joke, it is nonetheless a good one, thanks to his devilish combination of high-spirited rakishness and old-school gallantry.