| Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, suavely, and with great ingenuity. |
| Even with Barbara he ought not to be so suavely forgiving at Jack's expense. |
| Mr Clegg was very much a Brussels type: nifty on skis, suavely multilingual with a Dutch mother, a Spanish wife and a degree from the College of Europe, an elite nursery for Eurocrats. |
| Subtlety is the foremost element in this suavely written and understated novel. |
| Monsieur Salles suavely smiled in an expression of ironic skepticism. |
| He has even suavely refused to endorse France's national scorn for the strange manner in which Americans choose their president. All this is a canny way of raising doubts about Mr Jospin. |
