Word: demeanor
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...Lasch has been aggressive, so has her opponent. The Kennedy family has hired Miami lawyer Roy Black, who is affectionately known as "the Professor" for his gentle demeanor but who has been anything but gentle in his legal assault against the complainant. Backing him up is the more combative Mark Schnapp, who made his mark in the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami by prosecuting drug dealers and money launderers, including helping to draft the indictment against Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega...
...articulate woman who helped shape the national debate. When Stanford University neurosurgeon Frances Conley resigned her post this year to protest the behavior of her male colleagues, she forced men and women to weigh the costs of taking complaints public. Conley made a useful lightning rod, since by her demeanor she dispelled the notion of accusers as crybabies or oversensitive types who are not sophisticated enough to cope with office banter. She announced last month that she would rejoin the faculty, having been persuaded that her message had been heard...
...nothing was likely to match the devastating effect of both Hill's and Thomas' testimony. Cool and unflappable, Hill looked the Senators in the eye and handled every question without hesitation. Her hands folded on the lap of her teal blue dress, her demeanor polite, cooperative and never defensive, she painted a vivid and sobering portrait of what it means to be victimized by sexual harassment -- from the fears, embarrassments and humiliations she experienced to the repercussions it had on her work, health and career choices. Given the detail and consistency of her testimony, it was almost inconceivable that Hill...
...praise the worthy (mis?)- demeanor of the Modern Language Association, of Stanley Fish and Frederick Jameson, and let us revel in their... La dee da... standards of criticism...
...educational goals, including the idea of school Choice, and he is using his soft-spoken salesmanship to market them to Congress and the American public. The role is the most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into one of Washington's leading domestic agencies...