We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
Gone was the suaveness, the customary polite mockery; it was frank, open, genuinely pleasant.
"The Passing of Ku Sui"
Anthony Gilmore
Their politeness is unstrained, their suaveness congenital; they remind me of that New England type which for Western self-assertion substitutes a yielding graciousness of disposition.
"Old Calabria"
Norman Douglas