raffishness造句

• But even those potentially repelled by the in-jokes and raffishness may go along.
• He was born in Kansas City, a place where innocence, raffishness and vice collided.
• Yet there's also the raffishness of Anderson's most famous player, Pete Rose.
• For history and character Carey connects the two ( as others have ) to a fundamental raffishness.
• With everything from fine hotels to good restaurants to strip joints, Kings Cross has a reputation for both raffishness and refinement.
• The joints are all closed, bulldozed or in ruins now, but Vinton still has a slight flavor of bordertown raffishness.
• It was a touch of raffishness in a town that's being obliterated under an onslaught of " antique " shops.
• When Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister's home in the French Quarter of New Orleans, she is shocked by the raffishness of the neighborhood.
• Elisabeth Mills of Dayton-Halstead said, referring to the raffishness of the area _ the sense that this is where the locals live year-round.
• Myrtle wears that dress, which Mizrahi recreated for " Platee, " with the same mix of raffishness and crazy elan that, for the designer, defines the city at its best.
• Its joie de vivre is well-nigh inexhaustible, and for all its raffishness and fine distinctions of class and caste, its people have an inborn sweetness that extends from Garden District matrons to garage mechanics.
• With improbable raffishness, it shows how the teen-agers fall into the orbit of Dickie ( Dragan Bjelogrlic ), a flamboyant crook and black marketeer who whispers " Versace " as if the word were magic.
• Johnny's a loser in every sense, but he's still got burnout charm to spare, and Kilmer gets both the live-for-the-moment raffishness and the emptiness that comes from lying to yourself and everyone around you.
• There is a certain raffishness about that block of Chelsea : the assemblage of buildings; the grand old tenement with the geranium-filled window boxes next to the abandoned, graffiti-scarred brick stable building; the Spanish radio program wafting through an open window.
• The He Man Womun Haters Club still exists, as does some of the raffishness of the 1930s series, but now those little ragamuffins are as aggressive as they are cute and say things like " bite me " and " boy toy ."
• But is the emerging Times Square _ with two new musical theaters, a wax museum, movie complexes, chain retailers and a huge new tourist hotel _ going to salvage any of the trashy, glitzy raffishness, the Runyonesque quality, that characterizes the memories of those who cherish it?
• Often it is nothing more than a vacation experiment, a summer fling, a half-serious attempt at raffishness that is gone when things get down to business, classes start, job interviews come through, the parents return, or the U . S . Supreme Court's session starts.
• In the short history of golf movies, " Bobby Jones : Stroke of Genius " falls somewhere between the nostalgic hogwash of " The Legend of Bagger Vance " and the raffishness of " Tin Cup . " ( It doesn't pretend to scale the Olympian heights of " Caddyshack . " ) This is an old-fashioned sports hagiography of the sort that Gary Cooper used to star in while Teresa Wright sat smiling and worried on the sidelines, and, amazingly, it engages your attention and even respect while trotting out every clubhouse cliche in the book.