Word: debonairly
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...sang three tones above his pianist. From the start to the finish of his singing career, which lasted 71 years, Chevalier never did have much of a voice. "I have always sung," he said himself, "more from the heart than the throat." He learned to come on twinkling and debonair, his r-rolling repertory in droll counterpart to his charming manner and accomplished delivery...
...seventy-one, his poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll's House and Hedda Gahler in this season's off-Broadway revivals. The misfortune in his own play is that the passion, conflict and tone of voice of a playwright saying what he feels he has to say are all but inaudible...
...genius for leadership. He had a rare ability to fuse a collection of raw young musicians into a polished and pulsating band. He could also yield to the prevailing pop taste without losing a certain acerbic jazzy quality all his own. Today Woody is as much the debonair man of the times as ever. As he puts it: "If I had to play the same music in a locked-in style that I played in the '40s, I would have taken the gas pipe a long time...
...Some of the best known among the 40 martyrs: EDMUND CAMPION, a debonair Jesuit scholar who was described by William Cecil as "one of the diamonds of England," and was patronized by high nobility, even for a time by Queen Elizabeth. Campion's treatise Decem Rationes (Ten Reasons), in which he challenged Protestants to religious debate, led to his death by hanging. In 1886, Campion was made a beatus, a preliminary step to canonization that all 40 have attained...