Tuxedoed

He supposed that was natural when you saw a muddy, tuxedoed white guy who smelled like a cesspool. ❋ Howard Gordon (2011)

As a kid, I vividly remember a top-hatted, tuxedoed little cricket named Jiminy from the Disney movie "Pinocchio" singing, "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you" -- a syrupy song, yes, but it won the Academy Award for best original song on Feb. 29, 1940. ❋ Ph.D. Dr. Gregory Jantz (2011)

"Take it slow," said the tuxedoed bartender at the "21" Club, placing down a pale-orange concoction in a highball glass. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A cook starts up the stove on the tailgate, while three tuxedoed waiters appear and begin to set the table with bone china and crystal. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

At a Library of Congress concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery, Lomax told the tuxedoed audience: I hope you will be ready now to listen to Negro songs with different ears. . . ❋ Eddie Dean (2011)

Only there's one major difference: for the 30-year-old Taipei resident, there will be no Prince Charming, no tuxedoed groom. ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

Dressed in a thin tie and black suit with the tuxedoed orchestra, he looked like some latter-day Elvis Costello or perhaps a young Bob Odenkirk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Andrew Strauss's men also provided the evening with a degree of paparazzi-friendly A-list heft: the shrillest cheers of the evening on the red carpet outside MediaCity were reserved for Alastair Cook, emerging swooningly tuxedoed from his vast limousine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The tuxedoed waiters hover over every course and keep my glass full of Emirates, the favorite bottled spring water. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

As the show's perennially tuxedoed butler, "Mr. Aly," as he was universally known, represented an elegant conduit to a vanished old Washington, a place of exclusive salons, bipartisan cordials and relative gentility. ❋ Jason Horowitz (2011)

Today – as it was generations ago – tuxedoed waiters flit around tables, precariously balancing countless Viennese coffee varieties and trademark yeast dumplings on silver trays. ❋ Unknown (2011)