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Example sentences for: faire

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America in Black and White will nourish such fears through its own embrace of laissez faire optimism.
Supranational bodies like the World Trade Organization and NAFTA are seen as mere lubricants of laissez faire.
Hollywood's excuse is that most supposed similarities are "scenes à faire "--the concept that if you have a plot about, say, a felon hiding as a nun, certain scenes and dialogue (God works in mysterious ways jokes, for example) inevitably follow.
Later: Tony Blair eats Comice pears with aged Gruyère-- c'est savoir faire .
I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.