Sentence examples for something of a playboy from inspiring English sources

Like his mentor, he has combined business ascendancy with the reputation in his youth as something of a playboy.

Marie was a ballroom dancer and shopgirl whose husband, Gerald, Michael's father, was a Jewish tailor and something of a playboy.

Bertrand is established early on as something of a playboy, but Audrey's forthrightness, along with the apparently unfeigned intensity of her desire for him, knocks him off balance.

Of course, I soon discovered otherwise.' For a while he got a reputation as something of a playboy, escorting glamorous women such as Bianca Jagger before marrying the equally glamorous Italian Aliai Ricci in 1986.

8 A.M. (IFC) THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (2007) In 1995 Jean-Dominique Bauby, a 43-year-old French fashion magazine editor and something of a playboy, had a stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome, in which he retained vision, hearing and a perfectly functioning mind but was left almost completely paralyzed.

10 45 A.M. (IFC) THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (2007) In 1995 Jean-Dominique Bauby, a 43-year-old French fashion magazine editor and something of a playboy, had a stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome, in which he retained vision, hearing and a perfectly functioning mind, but his body was almost completely paralyzed.

In time Mr. Connery's conception of the character softened, as did the series itself, and both Roger Moore and Mr. Brosnan portrayed the spy as something of a gentleman playboy.

Also, he was something of an ostentatious playboy type, with a reputation for wild parties aboard his yacht, The Summerwind.

Van Gaal, though something of a showman himself, could not stand Toni's playboy image, with the Italian frequently portrayed as Bayern's "beau".

While vain Follana acts the playboy, he is also surprisingly fastidious and something of a hypochondriac.

He's too much of a playboy".