1. With their coiled energy, jumps, louche shoulder work, insinuating hips and limber backs, they look like real dancers.

2. The joke is that this louche, style-setting exuberance took place in a conservative town verging on the provincial.

3. To most people that just sounds like a louche accountant.

4. And if the teenagers make track for a louche star, it's very easy to make them become wicked. Finally, they will go astray and stop studying.

5. Now the neighborhood's louche reputation has given way to one of trendiness, as a number of intimate, fashionable restaurants have moved into this tiny Mayfair enclave.

6. Bank chiefs, oil company executives and louche politicians seem as allergic to admitting guilt as the public is eager to extract contritions from them.

7. On the evening streets, our louche, loud city had closed up like a clam.

8. The rather louche glamour of Monaco's royal family is nothing compared with the fading but still palpable grandeur of the British monarchy.

9. Early on, the award acquired a louche reputation when it was rumored to be offered in exchange for advertising pages paid for by the manufacturer and other emoluments.

10. There is no pretense that anything but sex is being offered, which is just fine for people with louche tastes looking to avoid polite society.