Sentence examples for smooth executives from inspiring English sources

But what I like best (or what I find most horrifying, is probably more accurate) is the theme throughout — exemplified by this wonderful line — that the sleazy salesmen and smooth executives running Wall Street don't really understand what they did (or, notably, what they're still doing).

But what I like best (or what I find most horrifying, is probably more accurate) is the theme throughout -- exemplified by this wonderful line -- that the sleazy salesmen and smooth executives running Wall Street don't really understand what they did (or, rather, what they're still doing).

a) Delay any investigation until the President has left office, thereby assuring smooth executive governance.

Rappers had long suggested that the music industry wasn't much different from the drug world (as Biggie put it, "If I wasn't in the rap game / I'd probably have a ki, knee-deep in the crack game"); now Jay-Z conflated Biggie's eloquent thug and Puffy's smooth executive to create the image of an utterly mercenary man who just happens to rap.

Mr. Moonves is one of the smoothest executives in Hollywood.

Leslie Moonves, president of CBS Television, is one of the smoothest executives in Hollywood.

The Games will produce a profit, he said, then added, "You can't get any more straightforward support than the chairman of your company saying, 'If you change a thing, I'll punch you in the nose.' " Ebersol is one of the smoothest executives in television, ever cognizant of his public image and as fluent in the language of production as he in the minutiae of Nielsen ratings.

Tina Fey's satirical behind-the-scenes look at a live sketch-comedy show was the stealth sitcom, a series that began unevenly, had low ratings and kept getting sharper and funnier, mostly thanks to Alec Baldwin, who plays Jack Donaghy, a silky-smooth executive, a lunatic with a corporate jet.

A shambling bear of a man with unruly grey locks and a penchant for shapeless black sweaters and straight talk, he is the antithesis of the archetypal smooth Italian executive.

In the 1970s he hired a smooth-talking executive named John Malone (today a cable TV billionaire).

Which may be why companies spend more on smoothing down executive abrasiveness than on any other failing.