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Accordingly, the observance of this constitution in by-gone society is known by the phrase savoir-vivre, and, more rigidly than anybody else, Louis XIV. submitted himself to this code of proprieties.
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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That is good American manners and what the French call savoir faire.
The Log-Cabin Lady Anonymous 1922
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"Alright, I hope you guys intend to order a lot of food," the zaftig, intense waitress displaying a kind of savoir faire would say to us Lambda Chi Alphas when we entered.
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However since the elected government took power, he has recognized that he is the 'savoir' of the nation by directing armed forces to 'open fire' on US invaders.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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However since the elected government took power, he has recognized that he is the 'savoir' of the nation by directing armed forces to 'open fire' on US invaders.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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"You know perfectly well that I am nothing in grandfather's young life, but the Cardew women all have what he likes to call savoir faire.
A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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As you can probably guess from the name, the show forces attractive women and geeky guys to co-habit and transform their opposite numbers, giving the geeks apparent savoir-faire and the beauties a sheen of academic knowledge.
Seven Seeks Beauty And The Geek Contestants | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Sur mon billet d'avion, je ne pouvais pas savoir ce qu'il y avait marqué.
Global Voices in English » Bahrain, Oman: The Lives Of Migrant Workers 2009
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Now she uses those same talents and savoir faire to help readers pop their own corks and get the mostout of life.
Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire by Mireille Guiliano: Book summary 2010
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If the vaunted Academy had any guts, The Wrestler would be up for Best Pic – as vs., say, Benjamin Butten, which is Forrest Gump with a high-tech makeover and a little more savoir faire. lobstakilla Says:
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Fourier – not only despite his eccentric imagination, but precisely because of it – was a brilliant, far-sighted libidinal ecologist: one who understood the dangers of prioritizing avarice and vulgar materialism over a sustained, collective holistic attention to ars erotica and what the French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler, today calls “savoir vivre” (knowing how to live).
Get Thee to a Phalanstery: or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade Dominic Pettman 2023
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