Word: demeanor
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Kerry, a Yale graduate, communicates a more sober, senatorial demeanor. In past debates, Kerry found himself explaining the intracacies of the governor's frequent quips...
Kerry, a Yale graduate, communicates a more sober, senatorial demeanor. In past debates, Kerry found himself explaining the intracacies of the governor's frequent quips...
Whoever the culprit, officials said, he was no mad-genius Unabomber type. Only one of the three pipe bombs in the duct-tape-clad package actually detonated. Match this criminal klutziness with a Southern accent and down-home demeanor, and the composite portrait was enough to inspire a spasm of dark humor. "The Una-doofus," joked Jay Leno. "Unabubba," a federal agent said...
...Montreal Olympic Games with her uncanny gymnastic poise: "Comaneci is an extraordinarily somber child...While waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action...and her body perfectly still. The same, somewhat unsettling demeanor marked her press conferences. At times she would walk about holding tight to a large doll. Asked how she felt about becoming the focus of world adulation, she deadpanned: 'It's nothing special. I feel just the same as before.' Did she ever think she might not win a gold medal...
...first half of the play belongs completely and solely to Ian. As Padraic O'Reilly dances and prances around the stage, whirling past the sputtering Ed and twirling around the nervous Pat, the audience is often brought to laughter from his cartoon-like demeanor. How could this play be anything but a comedy with someone so blatantly melodramatic, whose wit is even sharper than his bite? More importantly, how could he NOT be a vampire, since he shines with energy and vicious vivaciousness as several of his human counterparts struggle to keep their own pulses going...