Word: rakishness
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...short-sleeved shirt, the muscles of his forearms seem to move in rhythm. His face is marked in performance by both intense concentration and the graces and passions of the melody. He is always a showman who does everything with panache-watch him put on one of his rakish fedoras, brim snapped up and cunningly creased down wide in front, the whole hat and the movement of his hand over his head a study in easy, unashamed flamboyance...
Congreve was the alchemist of Restoration comedy, refining grossness into gaiety. He gave bawdry rare class. His rakish characters pursue their seductions, cuckoldries and feverish fornications with the aristocratic aplomb of English gentlemen on a fox hunt. Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit. The absolute lack of any sense of sin gives even the most scandalous scenes in Congreve's plays a pagan air of preadamite innocence...
...American Motors' sporty intermediate Matador has been given an even more rakish look...
...rebels wandered in slowly, a dozen of them, rifles swinging from their shoulders like coolie poles. Some had British-made grenades slung from their belts. All were barefoot, but a few wore red headbands that lent their otherwise raggle-taggle appearance a sort of rakish ferocity. Their leader - a slight young man with a goatee and darting eyes - identified himself as Usham Ambihal, 28, a former coconut-farm laborer...
...when an artist of the Kano school (1543-90) produced the magnificent screens of Namban traders arriving in Japan that the Imperial Household Collection lent to New York's show, he took great care with detail: the cloaks, the baggy pantaloons, the rakish curly-brim hats, the mustaches and the grotesquely long noses of the foreign barbarians are meticulously set down. To us, it looks like caricature at first. To the lord Tokugawa, who is believed to have commissioned it, it almost certainly...