(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Playing a character like Don Draper tends to colour people's interpretations of you …" His character in Bridesmaids , however, is not entirely dissimilar to that of rakish Draper.
(2) Then, however, the PlayStation 4 design was revealed: it's another reasonably large box, this time working a combination matt and shiny surface and a rakish slant.
(3) At the start of his film career, McShane was one of the rakish young blades of 1960s British cinema.
(4) Joking that his wife is still coming to terms with living under the same roof as the rakish Ashes to Ashes character, Cameron ended the rally with the cry: "As a much more witty man than I said: 'Fire up that Quattro, it's time for change'."
(5) The darker side of that seemingly innocent world of grinning DJs, rakish pop stars and adoring fans was kept inside the industry, where roadies remained silent about band members who habitually had sex with under-age girls.
(6) Ever mindful of his image, he was photographed with a bloodstained bandage swathing his rakish quiff.
(7) She gives herself to the rakish soldier with eyes wide open.
(8) With his National Rifle Association hat and rakish gait, he looks like a nativist from central casting, but he's a genial 70-year-old with a good sense of humour.
(9) This style of play, called sewamono, was perfected by Osaka's great actor Sakata Tojuro, a racy and rakish figure, who nevertheless, as actor-manager, paid close attention to detail, constantly urging observation on his colleagues.
(10) The committee chairman can't have been expecting their random late night karaoke – performed with rakish abandon, air guitar and all – to crop up in his parliamentary office.
(11) When male stars act the fool, it’s seen as part of their rakish charm.
(12) I suspect he was aiming for the kind of rakish dishevelment that Bill Nighy has made his own.
(13) On the many occasions I have been dumped by disappointed women, I was always heartened when they had the kindness to leave me for partners demonstrably superior to me – the clever and athletic Scottish doctor; the rakishly handsome Irish theatre promoter; the talented Canadian interior designer; the charming Australian pianist; the enigmatic and nameless Interrailing Dutchman; I took some comfort in this.
Urbane
Definition:
(a.) Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(4) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(5) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(6) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(7) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(8) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(9) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(10) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
(11) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.
(12) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(13) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(14) 58% of the urban population has access to drinking water.
(15) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
(16) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
(17) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(18) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(19) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(20) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.