Word: demeanor
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...Austin's demeanor is reserved, Spiegal characterizes her scholarship as "intellectually aggressive." Austin's scholarship often challenges traditional legal norms and has provoked a fair share of controversy...
...Franklin-Lipsker took the stand to tell her story under oath for the first time, she looked utterly normal, an attractive California suburbanite reminiscent in her demeanor and tightly pulled-back hair of Maureen Dean sitting primly behind her husband John during the Watergate hearings. Father and daughter avoided looking at each other. But when Eileen sheepishly admitted that she considered undergoing hypnosis for weight loss (hypnosis- induced memories are inadmissible in California criminal trials), George Franklin smiled and tried to catch his daughter's eye, as if he saw for a moment his pudgy little girl, not the accuser...
With his handsome face and suave demeanor, Wuer Kaixi was the obvious choice as poster boy of the overseas democracy movement after he escaped from the mainland nearly a year ago. Since then, however, the young dissident has lost some of his hero's aura, and his rumored peccadilloes -- spending dissident funds on a lavish lobster dinner, faking illness during press conferences to avoid tough questions, and hyperinflating the number of students killed last year -- have been well chronicled in the press. But he is the wiser for it. "It was hard, but that's what press freedom...
...supporting actor. Now he is poised between stand-up and stardom. He is top-lining in two summer movies, one a comedy concert film, the other a detective spoof called The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. With his suave prole looks and his studded, studied cock-of-the-Brooklyn-walk demeanor, Clay wears the aura of danger that Hollywood wants in a movie star. So maybe he'll be one. That still leaves doubts about his popular appeal...
After their first protest, students found Clark's demeanor so offensive that they decided to sit-in again. But when students confronted Clark on Monday, the dean, for once, made an effort to at least appear open to discussion...