It is quite possible to retain our sincerity without retaining all our brusqueness , and the sturdy independence of the occident would be all the better for the admixture of a certain amount of oriental suavity .
This is the simplest description of her character which , although by no means without liberal motions , rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity .
这是对她的性格最扼要的说明,这种性格虽然不能说毫无仁慈可言,但很难给人以温柔的感觉。
His universal suavity was less an instinct of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into his heart through the medium of life , and had trickled there slowly , thought by thought , for , in a character , as in a rock , there may exist apertures made by drops of water .