Mick had his hip-swivelling energy, and Keith his wild guitar; Prince Rupert, behind the scenes, contributed wisdom and suavity to the cafetière, along with high-class fun.
Managers, for instance, being as a rule selected from the most conventionally correct type, such social qualities as suavity of manner and address are more in demand than originality and vigorous business ability, the main object being to placate the board of directors.
This degree of comical self-absorption is American to the core.Donald Justice's "New and Selected Poems" (a selection of which Anvil Press has published in Britain as "Orpheus Hesitated") bring to mind, in their grace, polish and suavity, and in the absorbing intelligence of their meditative calm, the poetic landscapes of another great ruminative poet of Florida, Wallace Stevens.
Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister inherited Macmillan's suavity at the dispatch box and certainly impressed me with his handling of the aggressive Wilson, despite his upbringing in the drawing-room atmosphere of the Lords.
There was a suavity about him and a malevolence in him, a ruthlessness that seemed like a work of art.
Murphy is treading in the footsteps of the James Wong Howe who shot "Sweet Smell of Success" and the Gordon Willis who shot "Manhattan," but something has changed in the impact of such suavity.
But his suavity collapses, and he beats Bahari; García Bernal is so delicate that the scene is more painful to watch than such scenes usually are.
This it does, and with suavity and supreme good humor.
Brent Harris plays the title character — an Abysmal Sublimity charged with securing souls for Our Father Below — with beautifully modulated Mephistophelian suavity.
Being non-ironic, "Quest for Fire" will never remind you of those persistent Geico caveman commercials, but it takes on any built-in resistance to Neanderthal entertainment with suavity — my own disappearing about thirty minutes along, when our three fire hunters are treed by sabre-toothed lions in a bending, inadequate sapling.
